Metallica New Photos From Tucson Irvine Posted Online

Legendary rock photographer Ross Halfin has posted a number of pictures taken at Metallica's recent concerts in Tucson, Arizona and Irvine, California:

Photo: Kirk Hammett's world has been turned upside down

Photos: Friday, May 16 at the annual KFMA Day music festival at the Pima County Fairgrounds in Tucson, Arizona

Photos: Saturday, May 17 at the annual "Weenie Roast" festival sponsored by Los Angeles radio station KROQ-FM at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre in Irvine, California.

As previously reported, Metallica has tapped Greg Fidelman — an engineer/producer who has worked with current Metallica producer Rick Rubin on albums for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, System Of A Down, Slipknot and Audioslave, among others — to mix the CD, which is due out in September.

During a May 14 interview with The Pulse of Radio, Ulrich said that the group hopes to wrap up work on the album in time for the Memorial Day weekend holiday. "It's pretty close," he said. "We've got four studio days next week to just patch up. If there's a last minute, you know, 'that needs this...' or — but pretty much done. Yeah, it's pretty much done. And then they start mixing the week after."

Lars also took part in a conference call on May 15 to promote this year's Bonnaroo festival, which Metallica will headline on June 13, Ulrich told reporters that Metallica recently met with a graphic designer to begin planning the new CD package, though there's no confirmed title for the album yet and the songs still have working names.

"We sort of promised ourselves that unlike all the records we made in the '90s, [which] were just completely stressed-out and just nutty, that we were gonna try and have a little more sane environment — and we've actually, surprising mostly to ourselves, been able to keep to that," Ulrich said, according to Billboard.com. "We've pretty much finished the music now, so all the next level stuff is just starting to go down."

Ulrich said Metallica wrote 26 songs for the new CD but ended up finalizing about 14 of them with producer Rick Rubin. A total of 11 have actually been tracked for the album, though Ulrich said "length issues" might mean one more has to be eliminated.

"These are long songs ... we're talking seven-minute, eight-minute, nine-minute nutty-ass songs," Ulrich revealed. "We don't make them long or short on purpose; you just kind of do what feels natural. We're not really gonna edit them, (so) we're gonna lose another one at some point in the next month or so and probably end up with 10."

Ulrich described the material as "definitely pretty all over the place. There's a lot of variation, a lot of fast, slow, melodic ... kind of hardcore, nutty super-fast speed stuff. It's a little more like how some of the earlier records were a little more dynamic within the songs."

The band next plays the Bonnaroo festival in mid-June, a series of European festivals, and the newly configured one-day Ozzfest this August in Dallas.

Thanks for the report to Blabbermouth.net.

Comments

[-Boydy-]

1st

Hetfield's dyed his beard! ...

[Mootallica]

^ ^ ^
Signs that he's getting old haha.

We love you Papa Het

[Demite]

Damn straight.

[ProneSolution]

Somebody, please tell Lars to stop saying "nutty". It really, really scares me, mainly because I have no idea what the f*** thats supposed to mean.

[godberry]

the photo of kirk scares me. he doesn't have any hair on his legs.

anyways, i can't wait for this album. you could say it's going to be completely...nutty, perhaps!

[Ichimaru]

I love the way that every time there's a news update on UG, there's a Metallica article with a Lars interview which says the exact same thing every time.

[cobain_is_king]

Wow, they look older than the Rolling Stones. Aging gracefully I see.

[trashbeast]

thtas nutty dude

[Metalhead 83]

Amen, stop with all the "nutty stuff"
Papa Het, love ya in a not faggot way

[metal_freak_cam]

i cant wait either for this new "nutty" album...
brother love for Papa Het and Kirk

[metal_freak_cam]

^sorry bout the nutty thing i had to put it...

[ross1234]

i want to hear from james rather than lars all the time

[-G-]

Yes, lars is always saying nutty. I interpret nutty as hard, cus you know nuts are hard :P like when he says "nutty-ass song" i see it as hard ass song, which is good i guess. But thats just me.

[metal@hart11]

that guy is a good photogapher those are some decent pics

[therescue06]

ProneSolution wrote:

Somebody, please tell Lars to stop saying "nutty". It really, really scares me, mainly because I have no idea what the f*** thats supposed to mean.

LOL
its always lars
cant they do an interview with hammett, please?

[jamie_hough]

Anyone else getting bored with the constant bombardment of relatively pointless news UG keeps posting about metallica? I certianly am....

[The Spoon]

Haha, nutty

[Circle]

check the logo on the amps, may be part of the album-artwork.

[riteso]

id love to hear what james has to say about the album. i think hes always the most critical, and he knows if sumthing's shit or not. That guy doesnt **** around

[ozzynator]

nice nutty nutty pics.

checked.

[Soadfan8]

hmm. does kirk do yoga? pretty nutty.

[MtLMkR]

yea.... i was at the show in tucson, first tallica show, and i was right up front, insane crowd though.

[Gargantuan]

WE WANT INTERVIEWS WITH KIRK, JAMES AND ROB(yes, even Rob).

[blaze2thekings]

yea that pose that kirk has goingwith his legs spread in the air is some serious metal i think they really feeling it on this record...

[blaze2thekings]

Gargantuan wrote:

WE WANT INTERVIEWS WITH KIRK, JAMES AND ROB(yes, even Rob).

but mostly just hetfield

[Kirk_Hammett000]

METALLICA ROCK/.

[tdrules]

for the non-americans (majority and all), when's memorial day

[David_Bowie=GOD]

Looking forward to the next album, it better make up for St. Anger.

[ldnovelo]

looks like if kirk has a boner :P

im not gay

[nowtheworld91]

why does lars keep saying "nutty" so much?

[MooshMooshMarc]

It's funny how every other band gets updates when they have a new album, but with metallica, there's news when people release photos of them :P
It's pretty nutty like

[freakypop]

WTF is nutty!?

im guessing its the ST. anger sound O.O

[Myx4o]

tdrules wrote:

for the non-americans (majority and all), when's memorial day

I guess it is on 11 September

Anyway, I think if this album is good, it might not be Metallica's last album...

[xxadamnxx]

hahahaha they have a prompter that scrolls all the lyrics to whatever song they are playing.

[TheReverend724]

MtLMkR wrote:

yea.... i was at the show in tucson, first tallica show, and i was right up front, insane crowd though.

me too!
such a killer show! first time we sold out the fairgrounds in 30 years
there were 30,000 people there

[marvel_freak_42]

I was there in Tucson! They kicked total ass! 25,000 people!

[Guitar_Poet]

therescue06 wrote:
LOL
its always lars
cant they do an interview with hammett, please?

seriously, an interview with hammett would be WAY more interesting. and we wouldnt have to deal with the "nutty" comments.

[GoWithTheFlow]

yeah someone should put some duct tape over lars' mouth and let someone else do an interview

[Brad_Bassist]

ProneSolution wrote:

Somebody, please tell Lars to stop saying "nutty". It really, really scares me, mainly because I have no idea what the f*** thats supposed to mean.

I completely agree!

[metalderek]

I was at the show in Tucson. It was awesome. I had to get out when Scars of Tomorrow was on though. Way too hot and I hadn't drank anything all day in order to keep myself from having to p*ss because I'd lose my spot, lol. Yeah but when I was getting pulled out of the crowd my damn shoe fell off. > So I got some water and went back in, got even closer than where I was before, and braved the entire Metallica set with only one shoe.

[megatallica666]

cool. that photo of kirk was odd, but still coool. i agree with lots of guys, get kirk or james for a change.

[ViperScale]

Why don't they just duck tape Lars mouth shut he sounds like an idiot and most of his comments he has made in the past proves it.

[SDMF_matty]

are scars of tomorrow a metalcore band or something?
they sound like one of those bullet for my valentine/job for a cowboy retards just from the name.

p.s. good call on the amp logos whoever said that/

[metalderek]

^^^ Sorry, I meant to say Scars on Broadway. I have no idea, I've only heard of Scars of Tomorrow. Scars on Broadway was cool though.

[gimme_fuel_89]

This is going to be the nuttiest record of the decade

[Quoteman]

Go ahead Lars, say "Nutty" one more time, and see what happens to your entire family.

[DamageMachine]

I love Hetfield
In a totally homosexual way

[Lauri]

If Lars makes a solo album, what's the bet that it's going to have nutty in the album title?

But I bet if Het was saying nutty everyone wouldn't give a ****

[dropdead]

Go ahead Lars, say "Nutty" one more time

Why does Lars makes recording an album sound like he's taking a dump? It kind of grosses me out, maybe that's why they called the last ones Load and Reload...anyways

I think the world would stop turning if Metallica made an honest to god throwback 80s thrash metal album that actually sounded GOOD not to mention believable. I think most critics' jaws would drop, but based on the info given and all the telltale signs so far, hell will probably freze over first.

[jshizznit]

haha the nutty thing scares me

[Mootallica]

I think the world would stop turning if Metallica made an honest to god throwback 80s thrash metal album that actually sounded GOOD not to mention believable. I think most critics' jaws would drop, but based on the info given and all the telltale signs so far, hell will probably freze over first.

Oh God that has to be one of the greatest things I've seen on the internet in a long time.

Good job

[akack]

The sheer amount of times they're reassuring us it'll be like the 80s stuff is scary. I have a feeling this'll be very very mediocre.

[Helpy Helperton]

ProneSolution wrote:

Somebody, please tell Lars to stop saying "nutty". It really, really scares me, mainly because I have no idea what the f*** thats supposed to mean.

i feel the same dude, st anger was 'nutty' also pretty shitty, please don't let this be that kind of 'nutty'

[STOJDub]

Is it just me or does James make that LP look tiny as hell?

[poona]

Looks like 'nutty' just became Lars' favorite word. Finally Papa Het's trimmed his beard so he doesn't look like a hillbilly haha.

[B-U-R-P]

i think i found some album art. either that, or i'm crazy. click the third photo link, and select the third last photo. all the cabs have some cool graphic on it, they used to have the ninja star m's before, and now they have this.

[kop4]

look at Lars` outfit during this show on 16th May, I like
Metallica but u have to admit he looks gay.. Look at those white shoes and tight pants :O

[Ali-b912]

kop4 wrote:

look at Lars` outfit during this show on 16th May, I like
Metallica but u have to admit he looks gay.. Look at those white shoes and tight pants :O

its what hetfield and hammet used to wear during the 80's, before techno bastards stole the white hi-tops and emo kids stole the tight jeans. metallica made it look cool tho.

James needs to stop getting haircuts. and if he must keep it short he needs to use at least 4 less tubs of wax.

[Something-Cool4]

wuts the new album gonna be called? If its anything like st. anger not worth my time. Hope its like ride the lightning or master.

[Lord_Doku]

Master of the Lightning or Ride the Puppets XD XD XD
Kill em All with Puppets, Grey Album, AfterLoad, And Puppets For All, ReLightning, St.Puppets, Puppet Days Revisited, Symphony & Metallica ft. Puppets, Coloured Album, Ride em All, Master of Anger, Master of Justice

lol i just realised i wrote puppets 5 times in a title

[Year Zero]

I think Lars started a new trend. Nutty shit indeed.

[Shread_6009]

enough mettalica news, they havent had a good album in 17 years, please, dont post anything unless its a release date or a review on their new stuff

[Zeppellica]

Master of the Lightning or Ride the Puppets XD XD XD
Kill em All with Puppets, Grey Album, AfterLoad, And Puppets For All, ReLightning, St.Puppets, Puppet Days Revisited, Symphony & Metallica ft. Puppets, Coloured Album, Ride em All, Master of Anger, Master of Justice

lol i just realised i wrote puppets 5 times in a title

arent you a funny guy?

[shoummo]

Mootallica wrote:


I think the world would stop turning if Metallica made an honest to god throwback 80s thrash metal album that actually sounded GOOD not to mention believable. I think most critics' jaws would drop, but based on the info given and all the telltale signs so far, hell will probably freze over first.

Oh God that has to be one of the greatest things I've seen on the internet in a long time.

Good job

GR888!!

[pyritmann]

haha lars should never ever EVER wear pants that tight. oh man, scarred for life right here haha

[Lamb of Deth]

Its always Lars interviewed because he has been the "spokesperson" for Metallica forever

[emr_steelmech]

ProneSolution wrote:

Somebody, please tell Lars to stop saying "nutty". It really, really scares me, mainly because I have no idea what the f*** thats supposed to mean.

lmao

[metalist86435]

Nice pictures. James' beard sure looks nutty.

[savory_softy]

Nutty = Crazy, i.e you're a nut case.

[Twixted]

therescue06 wrote:

ProneSolution wrote:

Somebody, please tell Lars to stop saying "nutty". It really, really scares me, mainly because I have no idea what the f*** thats supposed to mean.


LOL
its always lars
cant they do an interview with hammett, please?

when have they ever asked kirk?
p.s this album better be as nutty as he says it is!

[Guitarism12]

Almost every post has the word nutty in it. I cant take it anymore its just dam nutty.

[One Way Ticket]

Kirk Doing Yoga?

NOT METAL

[lounge act]

Well I see they still have evidence for evolution as their bassist...

[venomouskiss320]

ProneSolution wrote:

Somebody, please tell Lars to stop saying "nutty". It really, really scares me, mainly because I have no idea what the f*** thats supposed to mean.

GAH +100000

checked

[Metal_Rich]

metalist86435 wrote:

Nice pictures. James' beard sure looks nutty.

Rofl

[Pukka-VCU]

Lord_Doku wrote:

Master of the Lightning or Ride the Puppets XD XD XD
Kill em All with Puppets, Grey Album, AfterLoad, And Puppets For All, ReLightning, St.Puppets, Puppet Days Revisited, Symphony & Metallica ft. Puppets, Coloured Album, Ride em All, Master of Anger, Master of Justice

lol i just realised i wrote puppets 5 times in a title

Hahahahaha! That was nutty.

[hectors92]

pyritmann wrote:

haha lars should never ever EVER wear pants that tight. oh man, scarred for life right here haha

if u look closely (not a very nice thing) their actually licra lol : D... i think he wants to go for the less is more look. or den its easier for him to play drums that way cause it doesnt impede his leg movements ;P

[ThunderPX]

What surprises me is that nobody has photoshopped a picture of Lars Ulrich to look like a squirrel yet. Nutty nutty nutty.

[Noskool]

kop4 wrote:

look at Lars` outfit during this show on 16th May, I like
Metallica but u have to admit he looks gay.. Look at those white shoes and tight pants :O

What's so gay with tight pants? What would punk and metal be without tightpants?

Tightpants IS metal!

[syd07]

lars uses nair? nutty.....

[winterburn69]

Crap, I want Hetfield's Cliff Burton T-Shirt, that right there is the shit!

[Something-Cool4]

i like metallica but they suck now

[Something-Cool4]

i like metallica but they suck now so i dont anymore

[Svennz]

wtf, does kirk shave his legs?

[fezaan66]

hmmm in the uk the word nutty is used commonly as slang, and it really just means 'crazy', so wen he says nutty-ass, its really just like saying crazy-ass.

[Mattallica1]

therescue06 wrote:
LOL
its always lars
cant they do an interview with hammett, please?

agreed