Metallica & Lou Reed Collaboration 'Lulu' Streaming Online In Full - Watch Now
Thursday, 20 October 2011
Written by Elliott Batte
Thrash gods Metallica have put their new album ‘Lulu’, a collaboration between them and rock guitarist Lou Reed, up on the record’s official website where fans can stream the whole album for free.
‘Lulu’ will see an official release this Halloween (Oct 31st) but fans can listen to each of the tracks individually right now before they buy the album. With the lyrics written mostly by Reed, the album is said to be inspired by German playwright Frank Wedekind’s play about a dancer who was badly treated for most of his life. Metallica’s James Hetfield spoke of the band’s pleasure of working with Reed.
“We were very interested in working with Lou,” says Hetfield. “I had these giant question marks: What’s it going to be like? What’s going to happen? So it was great when he sent us the lyrics for the Lulu body of work. It was something we could sink our teeth into.
“I could take off my singer and lyricist hat and concentrate on the music part. These were very potent lyrics, with a soundscape behind them for atmosphere. Lars and I sat there with an acoustic and let this blank canvas take us where it needed to go. It was a great gift, to be asked to stamp ‘TALLICA on it. And that’s what we did.”
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