In an interview with Rolling Stone Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich announced the band is plotting their first extensive tour of the USA since 2009. “It’s time to come back, and do some proper penetration of America.”
Supporting their new album “Hardwired…To Self-Destruct, due out on November 18th, Ulrich discussed playing songs from the new album live:
“Some of the stuff on ‘Death Magnetic’ was pretty cerebral. You had to really think about what the next crazy part is that was coming up. Some of the songs from the new record are a little more physical. It’s gonna be a lot of fun to play this. Also, some of these songs are a little shorter than the ones on ‘Death Magnetic’. I think it’s gonna be a lot of fun to throw many of these songs in, but we’ll change the setlist every night like we always do.”
Hardwired…To Self-Destruct was produced by Greg Fidelman with Ulrich and frontman James Hetfield.
The effort will be issued on double CD, vinyl and digital download. A deluxe version will feature a bonus disc containing the riffs that formed the origins of the album along with “The Lords Of Summer”, which the band debuted on tour a couple of years ago.
Asked if the new album’s first single, ‘Hardwired’, is representative of the rest of the album, Hetfield told Pioneer Press: “It’s representative of Metallica, for sure. The whole record is not that, though. It’s one of many parts. It’s not all thrashy, it’s not all mid-tempo rockers, it’s not all ballads or instrumentals or whatever.”
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