Metallica set to begin new album

by **NecoMortus** Wed Feb 02, 2011 5:23 pm

After a two-year world tour involving 215 concerts in 45 countries, Metallica have decided they’ll soon be ready to get back to the studio to record a followup to "Death Magnetic".

"There's a really good vibe in the band at the moment. In the past, we would be fed up with Metallica whenever we returned home after a gigantic world tour, but this time it's different," said Lars Ulrich, speaking to Danish tabloid Ekstra Bladet.

"I think that we'll probably get the creative process going in March or April and go into the studio."

The group previously documented studio sessions which resulted in the 2004 film "Some Kind Of Monster". To say they fell out would be putting it mildly, but Lars insists their relationships have developed since then.

"We really f--king like each other at the moment. There were a few years when things were really bad. We never really got to talk to each other; we would just grab a bottle of vodka and go out looking for girls," he said. "Today we talk a lot about our children and our families.

"In the last five or six years, we've found out where our limits are and we've made some rules regarding Metallica. That's been necessary in order to make sure the entire thing doesn't collapse."

Meanwhile, in celebration of 30 years of Metallica, photographer Bill Hale has put an exhibition of his time snapping the band in the early 80s. "I had a gut feeling that this band would be huge," he told Dazed magazine. "How huge, I wasn't too sure, but I knew Metallica had what it takes to be great.