Metallica – About To Start Recording, Plots Tour

Billboard.com reports: METALLICA will begin recording its new album with producer Rick Rubin on March 12, according to a recent post on its Web site. The as-yet-untitled follow-up to 2003’s “St. Anger” has been in pre-production for several months.

“We really have to feel secure about the music and know it’s good,” Rubin told Billboard in December about the process. “Then in the studio, we’re free to only worry about performance and not worry about writing a song. Hopefully, we’ve done our homework.”

Meanwhile, METALLICA has lined up seven summer shows in Europe as part of its semi-annual Sick of the Studio tour, beginning July 1 at the Rock Werchter festival in Belgium. “We kinda sorta figured that by the time June rolled around, we would be ready for a break from recording (escape??),” the site says. “And since we had so much fun in Europe last summer, we thought, why not go back for some more fun and games?”

Here are METALLICA’s tour dates:

July 1 – Werchter, Belgium @ Rock Werchter Festival
July 3 – Athens, Greece @ Rockwave Festival
July 5 – Vienna, Austria @ Rotundenplatz
July 10 – Oslo, Norway @Valle Hovin Stadion
July 12 – Stockholm, Sweden @ Stadion
July 15 – Helsinki, Finland @ Olympic Stadium
July 18 – Moscow, Russia @ Lushniki Stadium

12 Comments

  1. Demo Dick says:

    TOUR IN THIS COUNTRY YOU SONS OF A BITCHES.

  2. rammstien says:

    who cares fuck them

  3. lakebod0m says:

    “rammstien wrote:

    who cares fuck them”

    After St. Anger..seriously

  4. ADD says:

    Still a great live show, but enough with this summer in Europe bullshit. Play the US again during the summer.

  5. DethOrgy says:

    Think Lars is still going to be banging on trash cans for this one?

    They need to put out some Greatest Hits shit and stick to the touring!

  6. metalkillsall says:

    ^ Seriously, fuck that idea!!! The greatest hits part anyway, but I’m all for the touring.

    By the way, can’t wait for the new album…

  7. Deadnight Warrior says:

    Metallica should come to Canada for fuck sakes!!! I would only want them to play their old shit cuz I have no idea wtf happened with st.anger

  8. ASOmartin says:

    when lykathea aflame’s tomas corn used the steel drum sound, it was perfect. then again, lykathea aflame doesn’t suck ass.

  9. screename1414 says:

    New album will suck, even rubin cant get anything out of them. Theyve done anything good since …and justice for all.

  10. screename1414 says:

    er, theyve havent done anything good.

  11. metalkillsall says:

    Well, that’s your opinion, now here’s mine:

    Everything you just said…………. Is Horse shit.

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