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[Exclusive] Metallica Confirm New Album Title: Announce New Producer

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12 years ago

April 1, 2012

Update: Yes, this was an April Fool’s joke.

Bloody-Disgusting is thrilled to be the first to let you know the new title of Metallica‘s upcoming album AND who the new producer is going to be! Check below for the exclusive details.

Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich has confirmed that the new album will be titled Reloaded.

Lars states, “We really think that we were the most creative and free with the Load and Reload albums and we want to return to that mindset. It was just a time when we could play whatever we want and do whatever we want, because, let’s face it, we were and still are the biggest metal band in the world. So, yeah, we’re returning to that musical style and finishing up the trilogy!”

Lars also dropped a big bombshell by stating that the band has fired Death Magnetic producer Rick Rubin and would be once again working with producer Bob Rock. Rock began working with Metallica on the multiplatinum The Black Album but was fired after St. Anger was critically panned.

“Bob helped us achieve the greatest selling album of the Nielsen Soundscan Era. You better believe we want to work with him again! We made a huge mistake by working with Rick Rubin on Death Magnetic. I really think that might be the weakest album in our history.”

Reloaded has an undetermined release date of later this year, possibly early next year.

What say you readers? What do you think of this new news?

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“He Walks By Night” – Listen to a Brand New John Carpenter Song NOW!

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2 weeks ago

April 9, 2024

John Squires

It’s a new day, and you’ve got new John Carpenter to listen to. John Carpenter, Daniel Davies and Cody Carpenter have released the new track He Walks By Night this morning, the second single off their upcoming album Lost Themes IV: Noir, out May 3 on Sacred Bones Records.

Lost Themes IV: Noir is the latest installment in a series that sees Carpenter releasing new music for John Carpenter movies that don’t actually exist. The first Lost Themes was released in 2015, followed by Lost Themes II in 2016 and Lost Themes III: Alive After Death in 2021.

Sacred Bones previews, “It’s been a decade since John Carpenter recorded the material that would become Lost Themes, his debut album of non-film music and the opening salvo in one of Hollywood’s great second acts. Those vibrant, synth-driven songs, made in collaboration with his son Cody Carpenter and godson Daniel Davies, kickstarted a musical renaissance for the pioneering composer and director. With Lost Themes IV: Noir, they’ve struck gold again, this time mining the rich history of the film noir genre for inspiration.

“Since the first Lost Themes, John has referred to these compositions as “soundtracks for the movies in your mind.” On the fourth installment in the series, those movies are noirs. Like the film genre they were influenced by, what makes these songs “noirish” is sometimes slippery and hard to define, and not merely reducible to a collection of tropes. The scores for the great American noir pictures were largely orchestral, while the Carpenters and Davies work off a sturdy synth-and-guitar backbone.

“The trio’s free-flowing chemistry means Lost Themes IV: Noir runs like a well-oiled machine—the 1951 Jaguar XK120 Roadster from Kiss Me Deadly, perhaps, or the 1958 Plymouth Fury from John’s own Christine. It’s a chemistry that’s helped power one of the most productive stretches of John’s creative life, and Noir proves that it’s nowhere near done yielding brilliant results.”

You can pre-save Lost Themes IV: Noir right now! And listen to the new track below…