According to
HardDrive Radio, a source at
Q Prime Management — which represents
METALLICA — "flat-out denied" a
report that surfaced over the weekend that
METALLICA will headline the
Bonnaroo festival in Manchester, Tennessee next June. The information, which was based on an an email published in industry commentator
Bob Lefsetz's newsletter, also stated that
LED ZEPPELIN would play its first U.S. show since July 24, 1977 at the event.
METALLICA drummer
Lars Ulrich told
Examiner.com in an October 2007 interview that the band's upcoming album will be "heavier" yet more "melodic" than 2003's controversial
"St. Anger".
Ulrich explained, "Whereas
'St. Anger' was an exercise in over-pummeling the listener, these new songs echo some of our stuff from the '80s — long, epic journeys through different musical landscapes, heavier, but a lot more melodic." When asked whether the new songs will be shorter, in the four-to-five minute range,
Ulrich said, "Well, the most of the intros are four to five minutes. I don't know —
METALLICA and short songs just don't go that well together."
Although none of the songs have official titles yet,
Ulrich revealed that some of the "silly" working titles included
"19",
"10",
"German Soup",
"Glass Cow" and
"Black Squirrel".
Ulrich said the names "relate to where the idea came from, like Glasgow, Scotland became
'Glass Cow'. And when we don't have anything clever to call it, we just call it a number."
The new
METALLICA album is tentatively due in the spring.
