Lars Ulrich reveals how Metallica continues through the pandemic and James Hetfield’s recovery

LARS ULRICH Reveals How METALLICA Kept On During The Pаndemic & JAMES Heffield’s Rehab Stint

“Three years later, we have this incredible record.”

Drummer Lars Ulrich recently spoke with the official Metallica magazine So What! on the difficult road the group faced while figuring out how to write new music and support lead vocalist James Hetfield both before and after his rehab stay.

In response to a query on whether Ulrich thought the band may break up in light of Hetfield’s circumstances, he stated: “That comes under the category of ‘what-if’ inquiries, and I’m never a huge fan of the ‘what-if’ question. “What if this took place in place of that?” It didn’t, really. We made progress in our current circumstance.”

The drummer continued, saying that the group was prepared to put everything on hold while they gave Hetfield the time and space he needed to heal. He said that the band had even more time to concentrate on its internal dynamics and on their next course of action since the pаndemic struck soon after Hetfield returned to treatment.

“After what James went through at the end of 2019 and the beginning of 2020, I felt cоmpelled, along with the other guys in the band, to give him the room he needed, to truly take a step back, and to simply put everything on hold. For the sake of our buddy, bandmate, and collaborator, we had to take that action. Gradually, the fragments began to reassemble in the spring of ’20, but the terrible Cоvid and lockdown events took a backseat to everything. We thus came to the conclusion that there was no need to hurry anything since we were allowing the inner-band dynamics the time they need. In addition, as I previously said, we were attempting to determine “what can we do, how can Metallica make a difference, and how can music make a difference.”