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Late last year, Metallica roared back with their 10th studio album,Hardwired… to Self-Destruct.
And, come May, theyll be taking their latest tunes tostadiumsthroughout North America with theirWorldWired Tour.
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In 35 years of being in this band, Ive never heard the phrase, Play more new songs.
Its just not something that you hear, being in a rock and roll band in 2017!
(Hint: It involves blowing stuff up.)
That keeps the sanity somewhat sustained.
One way to keep it fresh is to mix up the places we play.
Theres different energies that happen in stadiums.
[And] I believe its since 2004 that we havent played the same setlist twice.
That keeps us on our toes.
Including everybody at the back of the stadium which in some places may be a different zip code.
Playing a stadium show is something that really requires you to go next level spectacle event.
You want to bring some s that blows up.
You want to have everything be larger than life.
We play stadiums, we play arenas, we play festivals, we play your backyard BBQ.
[Hardwiredcloser] Spit Out the Bone seems to be an early fan favorite.
Its this crazy journey through six minutes of really early Metallica flash days.
He said, Thats amazing.
And it was like, Eventually, Ill get there son!
How did the Gaga collaboration come about?
[The Grammys] always encourage you to do cool, crazy collaborations.
We thought some of the songs on the new album lent themselves well to a female co-conspirator.
I was at a dinner party at my buddys house a couple months ago and she was there.
We ended up sitting and talking about her old metal days in Jersey and the Lower East Side.
Her relationship with Metallica goes way back like deep album cuts on the early couple records.
Were sitting there and I took a shot.
I think this is the right fit.
She just said, Yes.
There was none of that stuff.
Shes so open and so authentic.
She makes all the decisions herself and shes so talented and shes so eager.
And she blew up the fing Super Bowl!
We just had to battle through it and keep going, which is what we did.
Its live television, this stuff happens.
This year it happened to us,last year it happened to Adele.
In the context of the bigger issues that face humanity, I think well all be OK.
