Metallica has been talking about a new record for quite some time now. While it's always exciting to hear that the band is working on new music, it's getting a little tedious. Fortunately this time it actually sounds like things are getting toward toward the new stuff, so we'll see what happens! Kirk Hammett said in a recent interview with Loop 97.9 that the band has been in the studio between shows, so that's a good thing.
"Let me put it into some perspective. Okay, the last [U.S.] show we played before this was in Las Vegas [at Rock In Rio], in…. whenever it was… April or June… something like that. And it seems like we might not be doing anything in between that show and this show, but what we are doing is we are in the studio, we're recording, we're working on music. And when we're in the process of making an album, we're in for, like, weeks at a time doing exactly that. And so, when it gets closer to the actual gig time, that's when we start rehearsing the tunes that we're gonna be playing. And so, for us, it's just another date on the calendar, and we are active throughout that whole period. The only thing is that we have to shift the thinking from being in the studio and being creative in those terms to playing a live performance and getting the setlist together."
At this point, I'm still totally excited for the new record but I really don't have any expectations on when I'll hear it. It's coming at some point whenever Metallica is happy with the final product, though the thought of the band in the studio actually laying down some new jams is still super promising… soon! We hope.
