Following Lars Ulrich revealing the news that Metallica had begun working on new material while in lockdown, bassist Rob Trujillo has now given fans another update on the forthcoming tracks.
In an interview with The Vinyl Guide podcast, Trujillo said the group had been in regular contact in order to share ideas and updates on what they’ve been working on via their home studios, due to COVID-19 restrictions.
“We communicate every week, which is really great, so we have our connection intact,” Trujillo said.
“And what we’ve started doing is basically just really concentrating on our home studios and being creative from our homes and navigating through ideas and building on new ideas.”
He continued, “We’re excited about cultivating new ideas, to be honest. And everybody’s in a good headspace, for the most part, and that’s pretty much our focus now — let’s have fun with this. That’s part of the reason I got some updated recording gear and I’m putting ideas together and we’re checking kind of each other’s vibes out on new stuff. And that’s pretty much where we’re at.”
“We’re creating, and I think that is really cool because sometimes it takes a while to get the band together and get four individuals who are living in different places in the same room. But it’s, like, ‘Hey, guess what? We don’t have to be in the same room right now.’ ”
“We can make music from our homes and work together and build stuff – and then we’ll get in that room together and we’ll bang the stuff out, but we’ll be 40 steps ahead.”
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While Metallica don’t have a set date as to when they’ll officially drop the music, Trujillo explained that the band are, for now, “cultivating the terrain and getting kind of excited about it.”
He added that after years of working in a particular way, they’re now learning to “restructure their routines and their creative flow” amid having to find new ways to create their music.
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