Metallica is going to release a new album and frontman James Hetfield and the rest of the band members are already in the studio recording new tracks.
In an interview with Loud Wire, the 52-year-old co-founder of the heavy metal band revealed what fans should expect of their new album.
"I tell ya, we're recording right now, and there's the number one guitar, there's the number two guitar, there's the number three," Hetfield teased. "And here's the third-track guitars that just sound different. They all sound different."
Also in the interview, Hetfield talked about the ESP guitars and the EMG pickups that he designed and used for the band for the last 35 years.
"Unbelievable to be sitting here thinking I designed a guitar, well, I'm not gonna take all the credit obviously, but taking a classic shape, redesigning and thinking of the idea for developing a clean pickup that had dynamics, that had power and having it sit here in a guitar and me recording an album after 35 years with it - awesome," he said.
Guitarist Kirk Hammett on the other hand revealed to Billboard that Metallica alreadya has a number of songs to work with their new album, which is reportedly going to be released sometime in 2016.
"We have well over a dozen songs and we still have well over two or three hundred riffs, too, so it's hard to say at what point we actually are in in the project," Hammett said. "I don't think we hit the middle point yet. I would say we're at the 25 percent point, maybe 30 percent point."
Meanwhile Metallica's bassist, Robert Truijillo teased fans in an interview with Ultimate Classic Rock that the new album will feature heavier and dirtier riffs.
"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."
A statement which drummer Lars Ulrich corroborated Truijillo's statement in an interview with Rolling Stone.
"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."
