Does the new Metallica album have a title yet?
It’s got a title and we’re still playing with it to see if we like it. But I guess the album’s done. It’s still got to be mixed. All the singing, all the recording is pretty much done. And we’re pleased with it. Was it an unusually long process this time? It doesn’t seem that way, but at the rate we’re going, the next one will take four years. I don’t particularly like taking that long. There’s a few things that I know could make it shorter, but other band members disagree, so we do our best with a compromise. After the last one, and the trauma captured in the Some Kind of Monster documentary, this one should have been a breeze. Yeah, exactly. It was a breeze as far as material. This is where the disagreement comes in. We had too many songs. Let’s write 10 good ones. This riff’s not good enough? Say goodbye to it. Let’s have the discipline to wave goodbye. That doesn’t apply here. We’re craftsman: We can take an OK song and make it good, but if it’s not great, it doesn’t make the recor
