MetalMartyr.com (That’s me!) had the privilege of getting exclusive rights to post the very first image of the New Metallica Album Artwork and working title.

Disappointment, which has been hyped up for well over a year, will finally be released in September…maybe. We never really know. Whatever happens we know it will come out long before Guns N Roses’ Chinese Democracy. Hell, even by the time that’s released China may just be a democratic nation, and then Axl would have to change the album title with another oxymoron title like “Sober Weiland”.

You can Pre-Order your copy of Disappointment Here.

(Disclaimer- None of the above is serious…except maybe the Chinese Democracy line…but even then)

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From blabbermouth:

Lars Ulrich revealed last week in Los Angeles that the band has all but finished recording its ninth studio effort, with only a few touch-ups to be completed this week before mixing begins. As for what the band’s first CD since 2003’s “St. Anger” sounds like, Ulrich told The Pulse of Radio it’s hard for him to put a finger on it. “It’s METALLICA, that I can tell you,” he said. “My dad was up at the house a couple, three, four weeks ago so I played him a couple, three, four songs and I said, ‘Well?’ And he goes, ‘It sounds like METALLICA.’ And I don’t know if you can define it, I mean we can sit and get into, you know, little definitions about that, but he just looked at me and said, ‘That sounds like METALLICA.’ And that’s pretty cool.”

So…let’s dissect this a bit. Does it sound like NEW Metallica….or OLD Metallica? Does it sound like Master Of Puppets? Or does it sound like Load? Eh, who cares really. We’re going to get the run around, the “this” and “That”, the ‘Nutty’ explanation and the ‘all over the place’ explanation. In fact I’m sure every band member that gets interviewed is probably sick of trying to answer that question. Honestly, I can’t blame them one bit.I’m sick of hearing them try to explain it too. Lars…just tell them:”You’ll foind oat wut it fooking sewnds loyke when it cumes oat”…(you have to read it like Lars would say it)

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Metallica’s Mission Metallica Beta website went live today for a few minutes and then went down from what I read. I think the official launch date is May 12th. Here is the teaser and traler from the site anyway. Enjoy?

Teaser

Trailer