I höstas började METALLICA jobba på en uppföljare till 2008-års "Deat Magnetic"

"We're about seven, eight songs into it," berättar Metallica-trummisen Lars Ulrich till Rolling Stone Magazine om skivan som återigen kommer att produceras av Rick Rubin. "We do it in rounds. We come up with something, we leave it, go to the next thing, come up with something basic, leave it and circle back around. Next month we'll go back and start embellishing: 'Let's double that one part and come up with a middle bit.'"

"If 'Death Magnetic' was a logical successor to [1988's] '…And Justice For All', the next album will be a heavier Black Album," berättar Metallica-gitarristen Kirk Hammett.  "We're not going to the depths of complexity that we did for'Death Magnetic'. The stuff we're coming up with is more groove-oriented, a heavier version of what we were doing in the early Nineties."

"When people talk about the old stuff, they think 'Justice'," fortsätter Ulrich. "But look at 'Harvester Of Sorrow' on that album. It's a fairly simple five-minute song. And 'Fuel' [on 1997's 'Reload'] is an absolute scorcher live. Right now, I'm thinking shorter, more to-the-point."