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Wikipedia Entry: Death Magnetic[3] is the ninth studio album by American heavy metal band Metallica. It is scheduled for release in September 17th 2008 by Warner Bros. Records.[4] The album will be the band’s first to feature current bassist Robert Trujillo and the first to be produced by Rick Rubin.[5] It will also be their first studio album released through Warner Bros. Records, although they still remain with Warner Music Group, which owns their previous label, Elektra Records.
On May 15, 2008, Lars Ulrich confirmed that they officially recorded 11 songs for Death Magnetic, although only 10 will appear on the album due to the constraints of the physical medium.[6] A short video released on June 14, 2008 on the Mission: Metallica website revealed the album’s official title.
When asked on whether the material represents a return to the “old school,” Ulrich replied:
| “I hate to be that specific, because six months from now people are gonna go, ‘What the fuck? Lars lied to us!’ But it feels that way to me. It’s been no secret that Rick [Rubin, producer] suggested to us that we use a couple of those records as reference points — that we spend some time kind of accessing that headspace. So when we would come to forks in the road, sometimes the exercise became, ‘What would we have done at this point in 1985?’” |
July 4th, 2008 at 7:41 pm
I don’t think any Wikipedia entry should be regarded as ‘official’. That particular entry has been there for years with a title of ‘ninth studio album’.