Search & Destroy

En una entrevista que Kirk Hammett, guitarrista de Metallica, otorgó para el medio Krone.at, declaró que el nuevo álbum de Metallica que se cocina para el 2008, será un regreso a los comienzos de la banda.

“I think it’s the best album we’ve put out in, say, fifteen years.

It’s our eleventh studio album, but it feels like our sixth. It’s just a really spectacular range of songs. This time we’re not afraid to refer to our past music in order to create future music. People will see that we’ve kind of embraced our old vocabulary again and are using that vocabulary to express new things. I’m super excited to make this album, finish it and release it — ’cause then we can go out and play it to the people. We might have stretched our cores a little too much in the last fifteen years, but we’ve always came back to what we originally are and have been. I think with this album we’re definitely going a little more back into our roots.

It’s super raw! There are some songs on that album that are so fast, that James (Hetfield) and I kinda look at each other and go, “Ouch! Our wrist are gonna fall off.” There are a lot of really, really fast songs, a whole lot of really heavy stuff. We changed our approach to writing the songs, all of us were working on the material this time. We also changed our tuning. With St. Anger we had the guitars really low. This time, we tuned the guitars back up to what they originally were for the first five albums. Because we’ve done that, James’ voice sounds more like it did in the ’80s than it did in the ’90s. There’s a lot of changes that we’ve made, but I believe that they are all for the better.”

Han sido varias las ocasiones en que los grupos dicen regresar a sus inicios y obvio, hay quienes lo confirman en sus LP’s pero creo que con Metallica pasa lo contrario. St. Anger fue un disco sin dirección y con incertidumbre en su composición, no sabían lo que querían. Ahora, con el productor Rick Rubin de su lado, parecen estar en la senda de lo que podría ser un buen CD, aunque desde el “Black Album“, esta agrupación californiana se ha apartado de la velocidad para impregnarse de medios tiempos y menos rudeza vocal y guitarrística. Lo que han mostrado de sus canciones nuevas en vivo han dejado entrever que el aroma que desprendieron durante la década de los 90 con Load o Reload sigue ahí.

La espera se alarga hasta 2008.