Metallica posts new fly on the wall music video on their album recording sessions

May 30, 2008

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New "fly-on-the-wall" footage of METALLICA in the studio working on its new album has surfaced on the MissionMetallica.com web site and can be viewed below.
As previously reported, METALLICA has tapped Greg Fidelman — an engineer/producer who has worked with current METALLICA producer Rick Rubin on albums for the RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS, SYSTEM OF A DOWN, SLIPKNOT and AUDIOSLAVE, among others — to mix the CD, which is due out in September.
During a May 14 interview with The Pulse of Radio, Ulrich said that the group hoped to wrap up work on the album in time for the Memorial Day weekend holiday. "It’s pretty close," he said. "We’ve got four studio days next week to just patch up. If there’s a last minute, you know, ‘that needs this…’ or — but pretty much done. Yeah, it’s pretty much done. And then they start mixing the week after."
Lars also took part in a conference call on May 15 to promote this year’s Bonnaroo festival, which METALLICA will headline on June 13, Ulrich told reporters that METALLICA recently met with a graphic designer to begin planning the new CD package, though there’s no confirmed title for the album yet and the songs still have working names.
"We sort of promised ourselves that unlike all the records we made in the ’90s, [which] were just completely stressed-out and just nutty, that we were gonna try and have a little more sane environment — and we’ve actually, surprising mostly to ourselves, been able to keep to that," Ulrich said, according to Billboard.com. "We’ve pretty much finished the music now, so all the next level stuff is just starting to go down."
Ulrich said METALLICA wrote 26 songs for the new CD but ended up finalizing about 14 of them with producer Rick Rubin. A total of 11 have actually been tracked for the album, though Ulrich said "length issues" might mean one more has to be eliminated.
"These are long songs … we’re talking seven-minute, eight-minute, nine-minute nutty-ass songs," Ulrich revealed. "We don’t make them long or short on purpose; you just kind of do what feels natural. We’re not really gonna edit them, (so) we’re gonna lose another one at some point in the next month or so and probably end up with 10."