New METALLICA Album Will Not Have A Single Ballad, Says Lars Ulrich

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Lars Ulrich has revealed that forthcoming METALLICA‘s album, “Hardwired… To Self-Destruct“, will not have a single ballad.

“I think maybe this one is a little punkier in places and maybe slightly less progressive,” Lars tells Rolling Stone. “It’s about the riffs and a bit more groove-oriented. One thing there’s not is the big Metallica ballad. It’s all pretty uppity.”

Lars also said that mentally, band could do this for another 100 years: “Obviously what we do, I’d like to argue, is slightly more physically demanding in terms of the energy that goes into it. Songs like ‘Battery’ or ‘Master of Puppets’ or ‘One’ have this insane physical energy and demand. If you can’t play it at the physical demand that it deserves, it’s better to not play it than play it half-assed. That’s the only unknown. I think mentally we could do this for another 100 years.”

Read entire interview at this location.

METALLICA will release their highly anticipated follow up to Death Magnetic in November called Hardwired…To Self-Destruct! Two discs, nearly 80 minutes of music is coming your way on November 18, 2016.

Produced by Greg Fidelman, along with James and Lars, this is the band’s 11th studio album and is available for pre-order in a variety of configurations including 12 songs on a double CD, vinyl, digital download, as well as a deluxe version with the riffs that were the origins of the album. Everyone who pre-orders the album throughMetallica.com will receive an instant download of the song “Hardwired.”

Hardwired…To Self-Destruct track listing:

Disc One

  1. Hardwired
  2. Atlas, Rise!
  3. Now That We’re Dead
  4. Moth Into Flame
  5. Am I Savage?
  6. Halo On Fire

Disc Two

  1. Confusion
  2. Dream No More
  3. ManUNkind
  4. Here Comes Revenge
  5. Murder One
  6. Spit Out The Bone

Disc Three (deluxe edition only)

  1. Lords Of Summer
  2. Riff Charge (Riff Origins)
  3. N.W.O.B.H.M. A.T.M. (Riff Origins)
  4. Tin Shot (Riff Origins)
  5. Plow (Riff Origins)
  6. Sawblade (Riff Origins)
  7. RIP (Riff Origins)
  8. Lima (Riff Origins)
  9. 91 (Riff Origins)
  10. MTO (Riff Origins)
  11. RL72 (Riff Origins)
  12. Frankenstein (Riff Origins)
  13. CHI (Riff Origins)
  14. X Dust (Riff Origins)