Häromdagen kunde vi meddela att Metallica äntrar studion i september för att påbörja inspelningen utav sitt kommande album. Ulrich har fått frågan om hur nära det är tills vi får se ett nytt album, han sa, ”I wouldn’t use the word ’close.’ I mean, obviously, in the context of, say, the age of planet Earth, we’re pretty close. But in the context of, say, other things, there may be one or two football seasons, or one or two baseball seasons, or one or two hockey seasons… We’ve gotta do this movie, and we’re gonna get back to writing when we’ve done this movie. I would say late ’13 or early ’14. It’s difficult to imagine… I think even late ’13 may be a bit optimistic. I would say hopefully we can realistically get a record out probably about a year and half from now, so maybe early ’14.”