OK, so I wrote recently about the Rick Rubin-guided new Metallica record, to be called Death Magnetic. Lars Ulrich spoke at a press conference a while back, and it turns out that the new record (with some songs clocking in at ’seven-minute, eight-minute, nine-minute’ according to Lars) takes Metallica in a new artistic direction that he calls, and I quote (I swear, I couldn’t make this up), “nutty.”
Straight out of Lars’ mouth, that is. At one point he describes the longer songs as “nutty-ass,” and another point says the material is “nutty.” Which begs the question in the title of this post: Is ‘nutty’ the new ‘gnarly?’ Will Lars’ phrase catch on? And will headbangers catch on to Lars’ phrase and call Death Magnetic a ‘nutty-ass’ album? I wait with bated breath for the viral spread of Lars’ latest utterance, because, seriously, it’s just too much. First, ’stock.’ And now ‘nutty.’ The guy’s an original, that’s for sure.
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