New Metallica Won't be like St. Anger
How many times have you heard this:
Rockstar of a notable band: "Our new record won't sound anything like our old record. We are getting back to our roots and what made us famous."
If I had a hot, blonde for every time I heard that I would be in a ménage à trois right now.
Anyway, Revolver magazine interviewed Lars Ulrich and he spoke about the new album due out in the Spring.
"This stuff is certainly a lot more dynamic and a lot more varied than the last couple of go-rounds," he said. "There's a lot of light and shade in these songs. There's heavy, fast, nutty stuff, and then there's some slowdowns and musical interludes. It's pretty different from 'St. Anger', and it's pretty different from the 'Load' stuff. This stuff is not the one-dimensional punch in the face that 'St. Anger' was. This is probably a little more like those couple of albums back there in the decade that begins with an '8.'"
Remember we were fed this same line of bullshit about St. Anger. The interviewer pressed Lars and asked if the material represents a return to the "old school," and Lars said:
"I hate to be that specific, because six months from now people are gonna go, 'What the fuck? Lars lied to us!' But it feels that way to me. It's been no secret that Rick [Rubin, producer] suggested to us that we use a couple of those records as reference points — that we spend some time kind of accessing that headspace. So when we would come to forks in the road, sometimes the exercise became, 'What would we have done at this point in 1985?'"
The only thing we will have to do is wait until Lars' baby is unleashed into this world this Spring. I am sure your life and my life will never be the same. The baby might actually look like this:
Rockstar of a notable band: "Our new record won't sound anything like our old record. We are getting back to our roots and what made us famous."
If I had a hot, blonde for every time I heard that I would be in a ménage à trois right now.
Anyway, Revolver magazine interviewed Lars Ulrich and he spoke about the new album due out in the Spring.
"This stuff is certainly a lot more dynamic and a lot more varied than the last couple of go-rounds," he said. "There's a lot of light and shade in these songs. There's heavy, fast, nutty stuff, and then there's some slowdowns and musical interludes. It's pretty different from 'St. Anger', and it's pretty different from the 'Load' stuff. This stuff is not the one-dimensional punch in the face that 'St. Anger' was. This is probably a little more like those couple of albums back there in the decade that begins with an '8.'"
Remember we were fed this same line of bullshit about St. Anger. The interviewer pressed Lars and asked if the material represents a return to the "old school," and Lars said:
"I hate to be that specific, because six months from now people are gonna go, 'What the fuck? Lars lied to us!' But it feels that way to me. It's been no secret that Rick [Rubin, producer] suggested to us that we use a couple of those records as reference points — that we spend some time kind of accessing that headspace. So when we would come to forks in the road, sometimes the exercise became, 'What would we have done at this point in 1985?'"
The only thing we will have to do is wait until Lars' baby is unleashed into this world this Spring. I am sure your life and my life will never be the same. The baby might actually look like this:
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