Kirk Hammett has 767 new riffs for next Metallica album, says their sound could “go back to the ’90s again”

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Metallica album, and thinks the record might see them “go back to the ‘90s again”.The lead guitarist for the metal icons opened up about the band’s follow up to 2023’s ‘72 Seasons’ in a new interview with Rolling Stone, indicating that they will not start working on their next album “for at least another year”.“I have 767 new ones for the next album,” he said, referring to the riffs he has already written for new material. “It is such a nightmare going through this stuff, too.

And I’m the one responsible for all of it and I can’t do it…. I don’t foresee us starting the next album for at least another year because we’re still finishing the 72 Seasons tour.”“Once we fully finish this and go to all the outlying places like Asia and Australia and New Zealand, I think we’re gonna take a little bit of a break, not too much of one, and then we’re gonna get right back into it.”The ‘M72 World Tour’ kicked off in April 2023 and is set to recommence in April in Syracuse, New York.

The final scheduled date is in Auckland, New Zealand on November 19.Hammett also discussed the potential sound of the new record. “Who knows?

We might just say, ‘Okay, let’s go back to the Nineties again’. It’s not a bad idea! We haven’t said that to each other yet.