Metallica’s New Album Sounds Like ‘Death Magnetic’ – Record Hopefully Gets Released In 2016

Fans ought to stretch their arms and prepare themselves for some grueling air guitar because it seems that Metallica's new album will most likely be released this 2016.

 Additionally, it's said to be moving in the same direction as their previous 2008 album "Death Magnetic," sources claimed.

The hardcore band's Kirk Hammett stated in an interview that Metallica's new album has a good chance of being released this year or at the earliest time possible in 2017.

"Well, you know, we're moving forward," Metallica's lead guitarist said in a 2015 interview with 103.3 radio station show "The Edge WEDG," courtesy of Loudwire.

And in a report stated in Metal Injection Hammett was quoted revealing details of the band's upcoming record.

"We're hoping that the album will be released next year," he said. "It's pretty much more along the same lines as 'Death Magnetic - kind of like that direction. And, you know, we'll see. We're into it."

Furthermore, the 53-year-old musician gave some sort of a timeline as to when they plan to release the band's new album.

"I don't wanna say that we're a third into it, or two-thirds into it, or an eighth into it, 'cause anything could happen that'll just change that number," he explained. "But, eventually, you will see a new Metallica album, and it will most likely be in 2016, and at the very worst, at the beginning of 2017."

Meanwhile, Metallica's drummer Lars Ulrich also commented about the progress of their new album by saying that the record is almost there.

"We are f***ing in it," the drummer explained, courtesy of AXS.

"We've got lots of songs, and we're honing them and tweaking them. It's pretty close. In our world, there's been a distinct difference between the creative phase and the recording phase," he added.

"With this project, we're trying to bridge the two a little more organically and not have there be such a great divide between the processes. We want to see if we can bring some of the creative curiosity, the impulsive stuff that happens when you're first playing a song into the studio.

You want to tweak it and get it good, but you also want to record it in a way where it doesn't feel labored over and overthought. We're trying to figure out where that line is," he ended, courtesy of AXS.