Hammett says the band needs to stop procrastinating
In an interview with Billboard magazine, Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett said the band should begin working on a new album in the coming weeks. Metallica's next CD will follow Death Magnetic, released in 2008.
Hammett comments: “We’ve been saying we need to start working on new compositions, but we’ve procrastinated a lot. We’ve given all sorts of excuses for not doing it, and I think there are no more excuses to be given now, so we need to start working on the album now.”
Despite the delay in releasing a new album, Hammett argues that it's not due to a lack of compositions: “Metallica isn't the kind of band that doesn't have ideas. Our problem is the opposite, we have too many. James has 800 ideas, I have 400. That alone is crazy!”
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Last year, drummer Lars Ulrich refuted rumors that Metallica's new album would be released this year. According to the drummer, nothing should be released before 2015. In a recent interview with Kerrang! magazine, Lars commented: "If you think about the age of the planet, 75 billion years ago dinosaurs roamed the earth. So a year is actually just a blink of an eye."
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