Lou Reed and Metallica record together

Metal band has recorded an album with music by Lou Reed that mixes "Berlin" and "Master of Puppets"


Immediately, it sounds like an unlikely match, but according to Rolling Stone Magazine has Metallica recorded ten songs written by Lou Reed for a new album that have not yet received a title.


The band has previously stated that their next release would not be a Metallica album in the normal sense, and it can surely say is a true assessment. In Metallica's studio north of San Francisco, New York's king of avant-rock and world's best selling metal-thrash band teamed up to record a studio album that is different from anything any of them have started to deal with.


The album features ten songs composed by Reed with a significant musical contributions from Metallica, and the American magazine said that the result is a furious combination of Reed's classic "Berlin" from 1973 and ditto Metallica's "Master of Puppets" from 1986.


According to Rolling Stone Lou Reed said the following about the project:
"It's a marriage made in heaven. I knew it from the first day we played together: Oh man, there is perfection in front of me."


The Danish drummer Lars Ulrich said:
"I do not think we have felt so free before. There is nothing of what has crossed our borders completely and we have not felt unsafe by trying to break new ground. It feels like we are not can land in the wrong place with this stuff. "


Reed continues:
"They give everything Metallica's forces in him. And because they are pretty sophisticated, they are still with me wherever I go."
Reed and Metallica played the first time together in 2009 to 25-anniversary of the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame in New York. Where Metallica Reed backed up on two of his songs. And according to Reed knew all there, they were made for each other.


Lou Reed contacted Metallica and asked them to listen to some songs he had written to "Lulu," a dramatic presentation of stories by the German writer Frank Wedekind, directed by Robert Wilson, currently running in Berlin.


Lead singer and guitarist James Hetfield said:
"We listened to Reed's demos, and they were just like wow - they are very different. It was a little scary at first because the music was so open. But then I thought that there might be something good out of it."


Metallica began writing parts constructed of vocal rhythms and electronic patterns.According to Rolling Stone is the result at once unpredictable and viciously tight.The songs "Pumping Blood" and "Mistress Dread" is the first from the collaboration. Guitarist Kirk Hammett says further:


"It does not feel like we are Reed's back-up band, but rather as though we are a band in a situation we have never been to before," which bassist Robert Trujillo adds:
"It makes us a better band."


According to Lars Ulrich's Album 90 percent finished, but there is still no release plans. Reed has no record contract, and Metallica is no longer with Warner Bros..To which Lars Ulrich concludes by saying: "We are free to go wherever we want."

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