Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich has written the foreword for a brand new version of Hunter S Thompson’s e book Screwjack.
The gathering of brief tales had been initially printed in 1991, and have simply obtained a model new version.
Saying his introduction to the e book, Ulrich wrote on Instagram: “Past psyched to have had the chance to put in writing an introduction for the newest version of Hunter S. Thompson’s ’91 assortment of brief tales, Screwjack.
“Studying these tales remind me what a treasure — and mindfuck — Hunter S. Thompson’s immortal phrases proceed to be.”
He added: “Test it out for those who like issues wild, salacious and unsettling.”
Elsewhere, final month Metallica dropped a brand new dwell EP titled ‘The Amsterdam Periods’. The four-track EP, recorded in April at Prepared Set Studios in Amsterdam, consists of ’72 Seasons’ cuts ‘Lux Æterna’ and ‘If Darkness Had A Son’, alongside classics ‘Grasp Of Puppets’ and ‘Nothing Else Issues’.
Metallica most not too long ago launched their eleventh studio album ’72 Seasons’ in April by way of their very own label, Blackened. The file scored a four-star assessment from NME, with Kevin EG Perry writing: “For younger followers simply now studying the fun of heavy rock – maybe lured in by the looks of this band’s 1986 basic ‘Grasp of Puppets’ on Netflix megahit Stranger Issues final 12 months – this new file might be a becoming gateway drug. For everybody else there’s merely the reassuring thrill that, after so many many years on stage, Metallica are nonetheless able to delivering sharp, spiky metallic – and sticking it the place the solar doesn’t shine.”
The band wrapped up their ongoing European tour this July, and can then embark on an intensive US tour from August till November. Metallica will subsequent kickoff their second European leg of the ’72 Seasons’ tour in Could 2024, which can conclude in July that very same 12 months.
