With the release of Lulu coming up next Tuesday, Metallica and Lou Reed have posted a full, 13-minute EPK online, which you can check out below. The video features all five musicians discussing the making of Lulu, which will be released on November 1.
In a recent interview, Robert Trujillo stated the band were already hard at work writing songs for the next Metallica record.
"We've been in the studio with Rick Rubin, working on a couple of things," the bassist said, "and we're going to be recording during the most of next year." You can read more here.
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