Ulrich: 'Metallica LP is like '80s albums'

Drummer Lars Ulrich has claimed that the new Metallica album will be more like their '80s records.

Ulrich also revealed that the band's ninth studio album would be less "one-dimensional" than their last LP, 2003's St Anger.

He told Revolver magazine: "This stuff is certainly a lot more dynamic and a lot more varied than the last couple of go-rounds. There's a lot of light and shade in these songs.

"There's heavy, fast, nutty stuff, and then there's some slowdowns and musical interludes. It's pretty different from St. Anger. This stuff is not the one-dimensional punch in the face that St. Anger was.

"This is probably a little more like those couple of albums back there in the decade that begins with an '8."

On the subject of returning to an "old school" sound, he commented: "I hate to be that specific, because six months from now people are gonna go, 'What the f***? Lars lied to us!'

"But it feels that way to me...when we would come to forks in the road, sometimes the exercise became, 'What would we have done at this point in 1985?'"