Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich is reportedly getting better after being hospitalised in Germany last week while travelling to the Download Festival in Donington. In a video message webcast at http://www.metallica.com, Ulrich said: "I had a little episode on the airplane going to Donington the other day, and I thought that it would be best to get it checked out 'cause I was having a bit of a weird half hour there. I think that the last six months of playing super-duty metal and traveling all over the world at my age kind of caught up to me a little bit."
On missing the band's Donington set he added: "This is the first Metallica show I've ever missed, so I still have the best track record. But sometimes you've gotta do what you've gotta do".