Do you recall that awful sinking feeling when you first heard St Anger? Hopefully Metallica fans will never have to endure it again. Drummer Lars Ulrich is promising a new album - due in the early Spring - with actual songs we can listen to this time around, and he's happy to pump up the hype a little with comparisons to their glory days:
"Well, the most of the intros are four to five minutes," the drummer told Examiner.com ahead of the Metallica's weekend show at Neil Young's Bridge School benefit concert in the US. " I don't know — Metallica and short songs just don't go that well together. But whereas St. Anger was an exercise in over-pummelling the listener, these new songs echo some of our stuff from the '80s — long, epic journeys through different musical landscapes, heavier, but a lot more melodic."
But are the songs any good this time, Lars?
Y'know - this kind of good…
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