Metallica Collaborate with Lou Reed For New 'Lulu' Album
Monday, 22 August 2011
Written by Elliott Batte
Heavy metal monsters Metallica have revealed to fans that their recording sessions with singer-songwriter-rocker Lou Reed will be released as an album in the very near future.
Lou Reed, who once fronted The Velvet Underground, has been working with artists and bands as a collaborator for many years, and now the star will co-release a ten-track record with thrash heroes Metallica on October 31st. The LP will be entitled ‘Lulu’.
A post on the album’s official website told fans: “Lulu was inspired by German expressionist writer Frank Wededkind's plays Earth Spirit and Pandora's Box, which tell a story of a young abused dancer's life and relationships and are now collectively known as the Lulu Plays.
“Since their publication in the early 1900's, the plays have been the inspiration for a silent film (Pandora's Box, 1929), an opera, and countless other creative endeavours. Originally the lyrics and musical landscape were sketched out by Lou for a theatrical production in Berlin, but after coming together with the 'Tallica boys for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame concerts in New York in 2009 all guilty parties knew they wanted to make more music together.
“Lou was inspired enough by that performance to recently ask the band to join him in taking his theatrical Lulu piece to the next level. So, starting in early May of this year, we were all camped out recording at HQ studios in Northern California, bringing us to today and 10 complete songs.”
Keep updated on Metallica and Lou Reed news in the future – there could be a tour to coincide with the release of the album.
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