Metal Hammer magazine recently conducted an exclusive interview with METALLICA’s drummer Lars Ulrich about the progress of their recording sessions for the group’s new album, as well as few other subjects. A few excerpts from the chat follow:

Metal Hammer: You’ve already recorded the drum, guitar and bass tracks for the new album, with the rest to be added some time in August.

Lars: “The backing tracks are done, yeah. But Rick [Rubin, producer] likes to keep things organic and work in a way that can be described as ‘of the moment.’ If we continue in August we should be done by October.”

Metal Hammer: Rubin isn’t known for being too giving with his time. What role has he played in the sessions?

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The good people over at Q Magazine have come up with another one of their lists and have been nice enough to decide what the top “20 Loudest Albums of All Time” should be and because percussion and drums form such an integral part of each of these album’s depth of sound we’ve decided to list those all important drummers too.

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Amongst all the speculation and rumour of reunion tours, Led Zeppelin are to enter the digital edge and offer an exclusive download only album of specially selected tracks on the internet.Entitled “Mothership”, the collection which will include such anthemic hits like ‘Stairway to Heaven’, ‘Whole Lotta Love’ and ‘Dazed and Confused’, will be available on Apple’s iTunes and will be the band’s first venture into selling using the internet.

The best-of collection Mothership is due out November 13 and will be followed a week later by new versions of the “The Song Remains the Same” DVD and its soundtrack. Each release will have additional content, some of which has been previously unreleased.

More news to come on this as it happens!

“I think people tend to expect a certain sound from us,” says Kings of Leon’s drummer Nathan Followill, “but on this record, we tried to throw them for a loop.”
Indeed, it’s not business as usual on the Nashville-based quartet’s ambitious, eclectic new album Because Of The Times. Where Kings of Leon’s last release, 2005’s Aha Shake Heartbreak, was “a fuzz-encrusted rocket of controlled violence,” as Rolling Stone put it, packed with emphatic two-minute bursts of raunchy guitars, brawny drums, and growled vocals, Because Of The Times finds the Followills (brothers Nathan, Caleb, and Jared, and their first cousin Matthew) opening up, relaxing the rules, and reveling in the joys of their newfound musical freedom.

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