Metallica bassist Robert Trujillo confirmed in an interview with The Vinyl Guide that the band has begun working on new music while in quarantine.
Trujillo explained, “What we've started doing is basically just really concentrating on our home studios and being creative from our homes and navigating through ideas and building on new ideas. And that's where we're at right now.”
Trujillo said that the band is “excited about cultivating new ideas” for the follow-up to 2016's Hardwired…To Self-Destruct, adding, “Everybody's in a good headspace, for the most part, and that's pretty much our focus now — let's have fun with this.”
The bassist added that not touring has helped change the band's creative process, remarking, “Sometimes it takes a while to get the band together and get four individuals who are living in different places in the same room. But it's, like, 'Hey, guess what? We don't have to be in the same room right now.' We can make music from our homes and work together and build stuff — and then we'll get in that room together and we'll bang the stuff out, but we'll be 40 steps ahead.”
There is no timetable yet for when Metallica will start the recording process, but drummer Lars Ulrich recently hinted that the group could potentially record a new LP while still in self-isolation.
