With their ‘Death Magnetic’ tour set to kick off on 21 October, Metallica have been talking up their bigger-than-ever live show. Speaking with Billboard, hot-headed drummer Lars Ulrich revealed the set-lists will draw heavily from the new album.
“These new songs are a lot of fun to play,” Ulrich said. “Traditionally I think we’ve been a little conservative when we’ve started off with two songs, three songs [from Death Magnetic ]. We’re going to hit the ground running here. We’re probably gonna learn all of them and play, I hope, at least five a night and probably rotate ‘em so we get a lot of new songs in. That’s one thing I’m definite about.”
There are also grand plans on the production side of things, too. ”[It’ll be] a completely different thing than what we’ve done before,” enthused the stick-man. ”[There’s] a big-ass fuckin’ lighting rig above us, and there’s some pretty cool stuff up there. There’ll be some shit that turns on and off and some shit that blows up … the usual stuff.” Usual for Metallica, maybe…
All this talk is very exciting, but when are we going to see that big-ass fuckin’ lighting rig and the shit that blows up? According to a leak in the Sydney Morning Herald, Metallica will be visiting us as early as January 2009. We’re keeping our ears close to the ground.
sarahanne
said on the 16th Oct, 2008