A YouTuber and parody musician named Kirt Connor has given the world a “new” Metallica song with lyrics written entirely by an artificial intelligence bot.
Connor, under his Funk Turkey pseudonym, composed “Deliverance Rides” with the help of lyrics.rip, a site that lets you generate lyrics from any artist in its database based on existing lyrics. He then ran the words through a Markov Chain, a computer model for a certain type of probability, which yielded “Deliverance Rides.”
Connor, who wrote the music, played all the instruments, sang the vocals and recorded the whole thing in his kitchen, has done the same in recent months for Nickelback, Red Hot Chili Peppers and AC/DC. Those songs were “Nobody Died Every Single Day,” “Great Balls” and “Tool Shed” respectively.
Metallica frontman James Hetfield told us a while back that songwriting is the most fulfilling aspect of being in a band: “The part of being in a band that's most satisfying to me is the creative part, and being able to get your insanities and thoughts and inspirations and everything out, in a song, through lyrics and music, is the greatest communicator for me and it always has been growing up.”
Drummer Lars Ulrich said in an interview in late April that it was possible Metallica could get together to write and record a new album while in quarantine.
