"What I can say is, we're one day closer to the next record being released than we were yesterday," drummer Lars Ulrich adds. "Unless there's what's called an 'Act of God,' I would hedge my bets that '201' would be the first three digits in the release year. And I don't know much beyond that. We've been jamming along. We've been putting in some time."
I have to be honest, I'd rather have them spend the time to hopefully put out a better album than the last couple. No need to rush it.
Then again, if they NEVER put out another album, it wouldn't bother me. The best years of Metallica are definitely behind them, even though they can still put on good concerts. I'd rather see them tour on a regular basis playing the old stuff than to throw together another shitty album like St Anger and play some of that crap in concert.
Load and Reload are actually pretty decent albums now in my eyes. Heck people need to appreciate Garage Inc a lot more because they did a fantastic group of covers. Death Magnetic was the return album to form for them even if the production was dogshit.
my 'take their time' comment was meant to be tongue-in-cheek.Are you kidding? lol. It's been 6 years since Death Magnetic in 2008. That is not taking one's time, that is just being plain lazy.
Death Magnetic is easily their best record since Black, by an enormous margin... I'm looking forward to hearing the new one. If we have to wait until 2019, that's a shame