Lars Ulrich Archives

Lars Ulrich on Death Magnetic’s sound quality

Following the latest Metallica concerned scandal revolving around Death Magnetic doubtful quality, the band’s drummer and all round official blabbermouth, Lars Ulrich, decided to respond. For those of you unaware, a lot of people over on the Interwebs issued a list of complaints about Metallica’s recent album, including stuff like low bass, distortions, louder recordings and most importantly the significant quality differences between the Guitar Hero version and the studio version. I’ll leave you with…

Metallica Live in Bucharest

Wednesday, 23 July, I had the luck of being at a Metallica concert, in Bucharest, at Cotroceni stadium. Living not that far from it and knowing the city pretty much, I arrived early in the morning to check some parts of the city. Some good and bad news came up from then: some parts of the city looked great, with amazing architecture, while some were in very bad shape. The traffic was almost really stuck…

Metallica: ‘Fly-On-The-Wall’ Studio Footage

Credits Is there a bigger musical event this year than the release of the Metallica album? Could be, but I can’t think of any other thing. They’ve got reclaiming, reconquering, and recreating to do – and that’s no easy job, even for them. After the disappointing not-so-impressive St. Anger, true fans are expecting a return to the roots; we’re waiting for the amazing music we know they can do. The amount of attention directed towards…

Metallica album delayed?!

A few days ago we announced in an article that everything seems to announce the new Metallica album for February. Now sources from within the band’s record label announced that album is now expected to hit the stores in September. Even more than that, the band is still in the studio! Fans can at least think about the fact that the last time Metallica spent so much time on an album was in 1991 and…

Metallica: New Album To Be Released In February?

Regarding this topic, people are divided into two sides: those who admit they eagerly await the new Metallica album and those who don’t. OK so their last album was… not quite we expected to say the least. But we all expect the next one especially since it promises a lot. The gods have a chance to redeem themselves and my bet is they won’t give it up. Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich (who else?) speaks about…

Matt Sorum describes new Metallica album

It seems all [tag]Metallica[/tag] members are working hard on their ’08 album, spending long hours in the studio to bring the best out. [tag]Velvet Revolver[/tag] drummer Matt Sorum, good friend of Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich, is amongst the first to listen to a few of the tracks from the new album. He describes them ‘sick’, ‘long’ and ‘fast’, with awesome solos of epic lengths. Don’t belive me ? Read on: “Lars is a good friend…

Metallica with more details concerning upcoming LP

After a few weeks ago [tag]Metallica[/tag]’s drummer Lars Ulrich and bass player Robert Trujillo took the time to be interviewed, reveling details concerning their ’08 spring album, it’s time lead guitarist, Kirk Hammett, to show some love and provide a little more info on the much awaited upcoming release. Hammett confesses for MTV, in a interview, that the new album is, in playing style, somewhere between 1989’s …And Justice For All and its 1991 follow-up…

Metallica with its ninth album in ’08

The famous [tag]Metallica[/tag] drummer Lars Ulrich has stated, in a interview done after attending Rock Werchter Festival in Belgium, that the band has finished recording the backing tracks for its, not yet titled, ninth studio release. The band last album “St. Anger”, was launched in 2003 and was dubbed by hardcore fans as a disaster naming it unpolished and under-produced. Ulrich said that they will return to the recording studios in August, estimating that it…