Lulu : Metallica et Lou Reed

[Gandalf]

On aura le temps de changer le titre d'ici là, mais le groupe devrait rentrer d'ici peu en studio.
Interview de Ulrich ci dessous.


Danish tabloid newspaper Ekstra Bladet conducted an interview with METALLICA drummer Lars Ulrich last month at the band's headquarters in San Rafael, California. A few excerpts from the chat follow below. (Note: All original Danish-language quotes were translated into English by BLABBERMOUTH.NET.)

On when the band plans on returning to the studio to begin work on the follow-up to 2008's "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. Therefore it won't be that long before we start working on a new album. I think that we'll probably already get the creative process going in March or April and go into the studio. We really want to get back to METALLICA quickly because we are enjoying it so much right now."

On how the relationship between the METALLICA bandmembers has changed over the years:

"It helps our relationships that we've all got families and children and they all get along with each other. We really fucking 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. That meant that we weren't sharing our feelings with each other. Today we talk a lot about our children and our families. And the fact that we have something to talk about other than tonight's setlist is or if someone made a mistake during yesterday's show makes a big difference. 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. For instance, we have a rule that we cannot be on the road for more than two weeks at a time during the school year and we make sure that we spend two weeks at home before going back on tour. That prevents us from burning out and falling into the trap that you can sometimes fall into when you are tired and worn out."

On playing 215 concerts in 45 countries in support of "Death Magnetic":

"Of course it's still hard to play that many shows, but the older you get, the less you take success for granted. It's beginning to dawn on us that what we have together is very special and that we're not gonna live forever. It's awesome that a bunch if semi-old farts like us can still travel around the world and thousands of people wanna share that experience with us."

On the 30th anniversary of his meeting with METALLICA frontman James Hetfield and the band's formation:

"It's been totally awesome. When I look back, what I'm most proud of is that we've actually survived, that we've lived through the last 30 years and come out of it relatively unscathed and that we are now able to function as a unit, as people and as fathers. We found solutions to the problems that we've had instead of letting internal squabbles destroy the band, which, for instance, happened to our friends in GUNS N' ROSES."

On whether Danish fans can expect to see METALLICA again anytime soon:

"The tour schedule hasn't been finalized yet, but as of right now, there are no plans to play Denmark. But let's see what happens. We usually come around every two or three years and our friends from the Roskilde festival also call us every now and then and ask us to play. If it doesn't happen this year, we will play in Denmark in 2012."

When asked in a December 2008 interview if "Death Magnetic" was a return to form for METALLICA, Ulrich replied. "I don't agree or disagree with it. The more I hear people say they're back and they're back to form. I sort of sit back and scratch my head and wonder, 'Well, we never went anywhere.' And the last time I checked the last several years have been very successful, sold-out concerts and so on. But then I also understand that maybe somehow we are doing something that is a little more of something that people perceive to be classic METALLICA. It's difficult for me to get into that categorization. For me, it's all one kind of ride or journey or whatever it is. But there's a obviously a lot of good will, a lot of love for METALLICA."

Regarding whether the band had an idea of what its wanted to do when it went into the studio, or if it was open to suggestion, Ulrich said, "We were always very open because we were working with [producer] Rick Rubin for the first time. We forced ourselves to be open to see where it would take us. As we started getting more and more into it we started getting heavier and heavier and a little more progressive. But it was not the place we started, it's where we ended."

Back in September 2008, METALLICA was the first group to see five of its albums bow at No. 1 on The Billboard 200. Previously, the act was tied with THE BEATLES, U2 and the DAVE MATTHEWS BAND, with four each. "Death Magnetic", which sold nearly half a million copies in the United States in just a three-day sales window, was also METALLICA's fifth consecutive studio album to debut at No. 1 and its seventh release to start with more than 300,000 since 1991, when Nielsen SoundScan began tracking data.

METALLICA is one of the top-selling artists of the SoundScan era, with cumulative U.S. sales of nearly 53 million copies. The band's 1991 self-titled fifth album, commonly known as "the black album," in 2009 surpassed SHANIA TWAIN's 1997 record, "Come On Over", as the best-selling CD of the SoundScan era. To date, the black album has sold more than 15.6 million copies.

[mike-polar]

Oui, ils vont rentrer en studio, c'est à dire qu'ils vont se mettre à écrire quoi donc l'album ne va pas sortir avant belle lurette, je sens, surtout si le plan du Big 4 continue à bien rapporter.

[Mc Brain]

J'espère qu'il sera aussi bien que les 5 derniers!!!!

[kingdavid of steel]

j'adore ton humour

[NicoGan]

De toutes manières Metallica depuis Kill 'em All :true-underground-à-2-balles: :ça-c'est-fait:

[Dark Avenger]

Metallica n'ont sorti qu'un seul album bien:Death Magnetic. StAnger, ça va encore; et le reste, c'est de la merde.

Et "ça'' , ça ne s'etait pas encore fait.

[Gandalf]

Ben quoi ? "Death Magnetic" il est carton non ?
Et y aucun humour la dedans.

[jony]

Bah, de toute façon façon quand ils vont rentrer en studio on aura droit à leur reality show en streaming avec en exclu tous les jours, 8 secondes d'une nouvelle chanson pendant une phase de studio qui durera 7 mois pendant lesquels on verra sur les videos James Hetfield en train de faire le guignol sur une nième reprise de blues, folk ou pop pendant qu'on entendra Lars Ulrich nous faire part de tout son vocabulaire "Fuck the fucking fuck". Sans parler des millions de fans qui feront de magnifiques commentaires tels que "Ca s'entend qu'ils sont trop revenu à leur début" à partir des 8 secondes d'extrait, des fausses chansons, des rumeurs à 2 balles et des 11 mois qui sépareront la fin de l'enregistrement et la sortie de l'album.

Bref, les albums de Metallica c'est intéressant qu'au moment où ils sortent vraiment

















ou pas...

[Polochon]

J'adore ta description Jony, merci pour la crise de rire!

[Chacal]

Ben quoi ? "Death Magnetic" il est carton non ?
Et y aucun humour la dedans.

hmmm non, ya de l'idée mais il est quand même pénible, je préfère encore reload...

c'est pas faute d'essayer de l'écouter fréquemment, mais rien à faire pour ma part...

[mandylion]

je me contenterais sans problème d'un album aussi bon que death magnetic, même s'il faut attendre 2 ou 3 ans.

[mike-polar]

Apparemment ça ne serait pas même pas un vrai album mais un "projet secret". Un EP?

METALLICA guitarist Kirk Hammett revealed to RollingStone.com in a brand new interview that the band will head back into the studio in May to begin a new project. "We want to record it in two weeks," Hammett said. "We had planned on doing it in March, but we pushed it back to May. I don't want to give too much away, but it's not really 100 percent a METALLICA record. It's a recording project, let's put it that way. Without getting too deep into it, it's more a recording project than a bona fide METALLICA album. Whether or not we can pull it off in just two weeks remains to be seen."

[jony]

Je sens le truc pourri genre un garage ou un truc sans intérêt...

[mike-polar]

Oui moi aussi. J'avais lu une interview de Rick Rubin qui a produit le dernier et qui a dit que son album préféré était Garage Days Revisited pour son aspect spontané... Je crois même qu'il a dit que ça lui ferait plaisir que le groupe refasse quelque chose de rapide comme ça-

[lelite]

HESHER is a film by Spencer Susser and starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Natalie Portman and Rainn Wilson. The flick is described as: "Loud music. Pornography. Burning shit to the ground. These are a few of Hesher's favorite things. And they are what Hesher (Levitt) brings into the lives of TJ (Devin Brochu) and his father, Paul (Wilson) when he takes up residence in their garage uninvited." The logo for the film might look very familiar to Metallica fans, as is some of the music in the trailer. The movie is due to hit theaters in a wider release on May 13th. Joseph Gordon Levitt said: "And, I'm humbled to say, Metallica themselves liked it so much they gave us their music, they never give their stuff to movies!" A trailer can be seen below:

[jony]

T'aurais û le mettre dans la rubrique Revelations, dans le topic Metallica où ils disent qu'ils préparent un truc mais pas un album.

[lelite]

T'aurais û le mettre dans la rubrique Revelations, dans le topic Metallica où ils disent qu'ils préparent un truc mais pas un album.

Ouai j'ai cherché mais j'ai pas trouvé le topic dans revelations qui effectivement aurait été plus adapté, puisque d'après ce que j'ai compris... ce film utilise des morceaux du groupe pour la bande son. Je laisse le bébé aux modos s'ils veulent transférer

D'après allo ciné

Long-métrage australien . Genre : Drame
Année de production : 2010



Synopsis : TJ, un adolescent de 13 ans, rencontre Hesher, âgé de 30 ans. TJ voit en cet homme un modèle, jusqu'à ce qu'il devienne source d'ennuis. Le passé tumultueux d'Hesher le rattrape... Mais Nicole, épicière, décide de tout faire pour sortir TJ des griffes d'Hesher.

[jony]

Bon sang mais ça a l'air génial ce scénario

[mike-polar]

Natalie Portman

[mike-polar]

Alors ça pour une nouvel surprenante, c'en est une!
Metallica vient de terminer l'enregistrement d'un nouvel album avec nul autre que.......Lou Reed!

Secret Recording Project?
June 15, 2011

A few months ago our own Kirk Hammett hinted at a new Metallica project that's "not really 100 percent a Metallica record." While Kirk may have jumped the gun a little (and has since been properly punished with a series of push-ups!), we are more than proud to announce that we have just completed recording a full length album that is a collaboration with none other than the legendary Lou Reed.

Ever since we had the pleasure of performing with Lou at the 25th Anniversary of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at Madison Square Garden in October of 2009, we have been kicking around the idea of making a record together. Some of you astute Bay Area residents may have picked up news of recent Lou Reed sightings in the greater San Francisco area and we have indeed been working at our home studio at HQ on and off over the last few months. In what would be lightning speed for a Metallica related project, we recorded ten songs during this time and while at this moment we're not exactly sure when you'll hear it, we're beyond excited to share with you that the recording sessions wrapped up last week.

A true innovator and easily one of the most influential songwriters, musicians, and performers in rock music history, Lou's work with the Velvet Underground and as a solo artist has such an enduring quality that he has long been revered and respected by us and many of our peers. We can't wait for you to listen to the finished record, so as we like to hear ourselves say around here, keep watching this spot for updates . . . we'll be back with more details as they come together.

[demodefontenay]

En fait ils se sont dépéché de finir cet album croyant que Lou Reed allait décédé avant la fin

[SophiePetoncule]

Il sort quand alors ?

[olivier64]

je ne pense pas que ce sera du niveau de la collaboration PEARL JAM / NEIL YOUNG. Mirrorball était excellent. Mais là, trop de disparité entre les artistes. C'est courageux, les bobos risquent d'aimer, les fans de METALLICA et de LOU REED moins.

[Everflow]

Les commentaires du groupe, et une vidéo qui rappelle qu'ils ont déjà joué ensemble pour la route :

David Fricke of RollingStone.com spoke to METALLICA and legendary rocker Lou Reed about their new collaborative studio album. The as-yet-untitled CD features 10 songs composed by Reed with significant arrangement contributions by METALLICA and is described by Fricke as "a raging union of [Reed's] 1973 noir classic, 'Berlin', and METALLICA's '86 crusher, 'Master Of Puppets'."

On their unlikely collaboration:

Reed: "A marriage made in heaven. I knew it from the first day we played together: 'Oh, man, this is perfection, right in front of me.' "?

Lars Ulrich (METALLICA drummer): "I don't think we've ever felt this free. There's nothing that's totally outside of the boundary for us, nothing that feels like 'Oh, what happens if we go there?' The strength of us" – he gestures at Reed – "is it feels like we cannot land on a wrong place."?

Reed: "They're bringing METALLICA, with all that power. And because they're pretty sophisticated, wherever I go, they're still with me."?

James Hetfield (METALLICA guitarist/vocalist): "Lars and I listened to [Reed's demos] and it was like, 'Wow, this is very different.' It was scary at first, because the music was so open. But then I thought, 'This could go anywhere.'"

Kirk Hammett (METALLICA guitarist): "It doesn't feel like we're his backup band. It feels like we're a different band, in a situation we've never been in before."

Robert Trujillo (METALLICA bassist): "It's making us a better band."?

On their first performance in October 2009 at the 25th-anniversary Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame concerts in New York:

Reed: "We knew from then that we were made for each other."

On how and when the album will be released (Reed does not have a record deal, and METALLICA is no longer on Warner Bros.):

Lars Ulrich: "We are free to go wherever. I'm obviously psyched for people to hear this, in whatever way we feel is right."?

James Hetfield: "I told Lou I want to be there when people hear it. I want to see their faces."

Songtitles set to appear on the CD include the seven-minute "Pumping Blood", which — according to Fricke — "opens with a drone that breaks into a crunching march, goes into speed-metal gear and breaks into free-fall sections," and "Mistress Dread", which "features Reed singing across a relentless staccato riff played at manic velocity."

[olivier64]

Pauvre Sweet jane... Quel massacre, que c'est lourd et pataud.

On est loin de la version du live Rock N Roll Animal de 1974.