Metallica recently performed on French TV program ‘Le Grand Journal‘, you can watch that performance below. Meanwhile, drummer Lars Ulrich took part in a lengthy conversation about the band’s newly released album, “Hardwired…To Self-Destruct” with Rollingstone.com. As part of the discussion, he mentioned that he thinks this latest effort may be the band’s most consistent record to date. He said of it:
“I haven’t decided on that yet. I’m still tripping on it as a piece of work or as a musical experience – I know that’s a very un-2016 thing to say – but I like the beginning to the end, all 80 minutes if anybody still has an attention span. It’s quite a beating [laughs]. I think it may be the most consistent record we’ve made. With Death Magnetic, we had 14 songs, and we felt there was a clear line in the sand with the first 10 and the last four.
So 11, 12, 13, and 14 were not worthy of being in the same company as the first 10, so we held those back and shared them a couple of years later [as the EP Beyond Magnetic]. The one thing we felt about this material is that we felt the consistency from beginning to end was unlike any batch of songs we could remember.
Even with “Lords of Summer” as number 13, at one point we thought about putting it in with the first 12, and then we felt the consistency was so high that we would want to share all of them. I love the consistency about this one. It’s very high, at least for us. Obviously nobody’s going to sit there and think that song nine on Load is as good as one, two or three or song 10 on the Black Album. I think that this record is deep, and I think there’s a consistency that runs deeper than usual for us, so I’m pretty psyched about that.”
