Looks like Metallica is getting pretty serious about making a new album. Vocalist and guitarist James Hetfield revealed he's been doing a lot of writing in quarantine, and apparently so has guitarist Kirk Hammett. Hammett tells Uproxx he has "over 600 ideas" for the new album and that the band is "just starting to get the ball rolling towards creating some new material."
Let's just hope Hammett doesn't have any of his new ideas stored on his phone this time.
"We have weekly check-ins, and the dialogue has been steered towards what we're going to be doing in the immediate future," he tells Uproxx in a new interview. "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."
In the past, bassist Robert Trujillo made it pretty clear in the past that Metallica isn't interested in waiting another six years between records (like between 2008's St. Anger and 2016's Hardwired to Self Destruct). So I guess it's looking pretty good that we'll be getting a new Metallica album in the sorta-near future.
