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Shockwaves/HardRadio Podcast #30, dubbed ‘The Metallica Episode,’ is available for download (M4A file, 41 MB). Host Bob Nalbandian pins down journalist and author of the official METALLICA illustrated chronicle ‘So What! The Good, The Mad, and the Ugly’, Steffan Chirazi, as well as Lars Ulrich’s earliest metal comrade and NWOBHM connoisseur John Kornarens for an extraordinary three-way conversation exploring the earliest years of METALLICA’s unbelievable journey into becoming the world’s biggest heavy metal band. (more…)

Lars Ulrich, the combustible drummer of heavy-metal band Metallica and long-time critic of file sharing, has apparently changed some of his views towards the Internet and digital music.

In a Rolling Stone interview last week, Ulrich said he and his bandmates have only one more album to make under the Warner Music Group’s label.

What are their plans for the future?

“We want to be as free (as) players as possible,” Ulrich told Rolling Stone during the band’s Northern California appearance for Record Store Day. “We’ve been observing Radiohead and Trent Reznor and in 27 years or however long it takes for the next record, we’ll be looking forward to everything in terms of possibilities with the Internet.” (more…)

Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich, also known as “the rich guy who bitched about Napster” now says that free online music may not be such a bad thing, after all.

Lars and his bandmates once took a lot of flack for publicly suggesting that “file sharers” were, in fact, not sharing music but stealing it. But that doesn’t mean he’s not interested in, say, using the Web to promote their next album — whenever that happens. Here he is in a recent Rolling Stone Interview: (more…)

Rolling Stone caught up with Metallica at their Record Store Day signing event in northern California late last week. Drummer Lars Ulrich dialed us up to discuss the event and chatted about recording with Rick Rubin, bonding with his kids over Guitar Hero and learning to love the Web.

You went through four boxes of Sharpies signing autographs on Record Store Day. Can you talk about that marathon meet and greet?
I think the intense energy and all the love carried us through. I didn’t even take a pee break! It’s probably the longest we’ve gone for as long as I can remember. We used to be like, “Where’s the beer? Fire up the Misfits!” It would be a lot more reckless. Now it’s more personal and less about you and your beer needs. It’s funny. You’re at home chilling out in your backyard, being a parent, and driving your kids around town and you conveniently forget. At 9 a.m., I spent ten minutes wiping the shit off my nine-month old. At 12 p.m., I was in the dog park cleaning up dog shit. Then you get into a car drive down to Mountain View and go, “Holy shit!” By 2 p.m., they’re saying how amazing you are. It’s easy to forget in your own little bubble. (more…)

Airdate: 4-10-08. Dave Navarro hosts a talk show about the arts and human condition. This show includes an interview and a guitar lesson from musician Dave Mustaine. He still hates Lars and slept with Kirk’s girl!? I think most of all he is pissed that noone cares when a new Megadeth album comes out.

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July 8, 2007 – Wembley, London England

“Lars (Ulrich) is a good friend of mine. He played me the demos from San Francisco, and I turned and looked at him and I said, ‘Master that shit and put it out.’ It’s ridiculous. The demos were sick. Eight-minute songs, all these tempo changes, crazy fast. It’s like, ‘Dude, don’t get slower when you get older, but don’t get faster!? How are you gonna play this live?’ And then me and Lars were out partying all night, (more…)

 Virginia Fuel, Virginia’s local chapter of the Metallica Club (the official METALLICA fan club), has published an interview with METALLICA drummer Lars Ulrich’s longtime assistance Steven Wiig. An excerpt from the chat follows:

The interview was taken from one of Iron Maiden’s concerts when they were touring in Los Angeles, CA back on February 19, 2008.

According to Lars, the recording of the album will be finished in 4-6 weeks and the record will be released sometime in September.

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The title for the new Metallica album is yet to be released. Rick Rubin has however decided that the new album should be “the new” Master of puppets. Many fans will definetely welcome the promise of more guitar solo’s on Metallica’s new album. The upcoming release is said to feature a lot more solo’s then what was the case on the previous album St.anger. Something that should be easily achieved since the solo’s on St.anger seem to have been clinically removed from the final mix. Nevertheless it sounds promising. 

Metallica’s drummer Lars Ulrich made an interview with Revolver magazine about the band’s 9th studio album due to be released in september 2008. Ulrich told revolver magazine that metallica’s new material is “certainly a lot more dynamic and a lot more varied than the last couple of go-rounds,” adding, “There’s a lot of light and shade in these songs. There’s heavy, fast, nutty stuff, and then there’s some slowdowns and musical interludes”.

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