Following the release of their last album, Metallica is now reportedly working on a new record.
And according to bassist Robert Truijillo, the new album will feature heavier tracks, Ultimate Classic Rock revealed.
"I can tell you that what we're doing sounds heavy, but again, each album is its own little experience," Trujillo said. "So we'll just have to wait and see."
Meanwhile, drummer Lars Ulrich added in his interview to Rolling Stone, that the new album of Metallica will surely feature heavier riffs as compared to the former album.
"In our world, there's been a distinct difference between the creative phase and the recording phase," Ulrich said. "With this project, we're trying to bridge the two a little more organically and not have there be such a great divide between the processes. We want to see if we can bring some of the creative curiosity, the impulsive stuff that happens when you're first playing a song into the studio."
"Compared to the age of the earth and the age of man populating this wonderful planet, it is very close by. I wouldn't hold my breath or skip going to the bathroom, but it's coming."
Kirk Hammett on the other hand, is reportedly going to start from scratch again following the lost of his phone, where all his new riffs were saved.
In an interview with Blabbermouth, the 52-year-old musician shared his unfortunate experience.
"I put riffs on my iPhone, but something very unfortunate happened to me about six months ago," Hammett previously said. "I lost my iPhone [containing] 250 musical ideas. And I was crushed. It didn't get backed up. And when it happened, I was bummed out for about two or three days."
And while he admitted that he is still looking forward to finding his phone, Hammett admitted that he just realized that he needed to just move forward and make new riffs.
"I lost [the phone]. I just plain lost it. I can't find it. I'm still looking for it to this day. I just set it somewhere and... It still might turn up. I'm hoping it will. To try to remember those riffs? I can only remember, like, eight of 'em. So I just chalked it down to maybe it just wasn't meant to be and I'll just move forward with it."
Furthermore, he told Tim Virgin of Chicago's WLUP-FM 97.9 that he is looking at the incident as somekind of a sign to make new riffs for the Metallica's new album.
"I ask myself, maybe the universe is trying to tell me something," he explained. "Maybe those bits of music were just not meant to be heard by anyone else. I don't know. Maybe my karma is just bad and I'm paying for bad behavior in the past. I don't know."
Metallica, however, has yet to reveal when they plan to release their new album.
