Hardwired: Metallica assures fans new album will be brick-walled "beyond recognition"
Metallica fans are fran-tic-tic-tic-tock today after band kingpin and former anti-download crusader Lars Ulrich announced an end to their eight year album drought, with the upcoming release of "Hardwired... To Self-Destruct". Produced by Greg Fidelman, the double album is due to drop on November 18 and usher in "the next phase" of the bands move into completely incomprehensible entry-level metal.
Ulrich says their 11th studio album will be "more unlistenable than ever", even without Rick Rubin producing.
"Well we heard the criticisms about the production quality of Death Magnetic, but we realized we actually quite liked the sound of little to no dynamic range in our music," he says.
"It gave the album a kind of comforting 'cooking' vibe... like during Cyanide with all the crackling... can't you just picture James (Hetfield) cooking bacon for breakfast?"
The band released the single "Hardwired" alongside today's announcement, and first impressions reveal that you can infact still hear a drum kit, guitars and vocals throughout the track.
Ulrich was quick to assert that it was a pre-release "work in progress", and that they still had plenty of time to amplify it into oblivion before the album's November release.
"Our old stuff like Kill 'em All was just raw as fuck man, and you could hear everything in the recording," he says.
"We were so young and reckless! Now-a-days we're older and sloppier... but time has given us the technology to cover up our ever gradual slip into the abyss of mediocrity.
"Don't worry, by November 18 you won't be able to hear a thing."
