Limited Edition METALLICA Statues Are Coming

A new Metallica album isn't the only new Metallica coming in 2021! Knucklebonz has announced their line of Metallica Rock Iconz for January or February 2021. Each icon is 1/9 scale, a limited edition of 3,000, and comes with a certificate of authenticity on the base of the statue. Pre-orders are available here.

As for that new Metallica album, vocalist and guitarist James Hetfield recently revealed he's been working on it throughout quarantine. Guitarist Kirk Hammett also added he has about 600 ideas for the record as well.

"We have weekly check-ins, and the dialogue has been steered towards what we're going to be doing in the immediate future," said Hammett. "And I've been using this time to go through all my musical ideas that I've come up with. In the last three or four years, it's over 600 ideas. It's taken me a couple of months to go through it all. But they've been sent into the big musical idea bank, and we're starting to talk about going through all that stuff, and exchanging ideas, and just starting to get the ball rolling towards creating some new material."

"There's a lot we can do remotely, but I really think that we all need to be together in the same room, to really create some really, really, really great songs and music. The magic really happens when we're all in the same room, breathing the same air, even though that can be deadly."