Metallica have some touring ahead of them this year, but the band is also talking about working on some new music.
"We're still throwing ideas around," drummer Lars Ulrich tells SPIN. "We work in stages. Some people will write a song from beginning to end in one go. We don't do that. We'll develop, like, 10 ideas and do a couple cycles. We'll do a verse, chorus and maybe an intro, and then we'll leave them and go develop 10 other ideas. So it's a little early yet because we haven't gone back yet and started tweaking anything. Right now we're throwing ideas at the canvas and picking out great riffs."
How Metallica deliver their new music is something the band is thinking through these days, as they find themselves in a unique position with a unique opportunity ahead of them.
"We're free and clear of our record contract. The world's our oyster," says Ulrich. The band's last studio effort, 2008's “Death Magnetic,” was released by Warner Bros. "We can basically do whatever we want, and we're going to start figuring that out."
"We're writing music and we're going to be recording very soon," sums up Lars. “At some point we're going to want to share that with people that are interested in listening to it. So we gotta figure out ways we want to do that, from giving it away in cereal boxes to getting people to do handstands for it. We could come up with something wacky.”
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