'I don't think it's going to be too difficult for us to figure out these songs.'

Although to be honest with you, a song like 'The Struggle Within' is a lot easier to re-learn than 'The Frayed Ends Of Sanity'. I quite like the fact that come next summer it'll be the 21st anniversary of the 'black album,' not the 20th.'Īsked whether he and his bandmates would have to re-learn the two songs from the record 'Don't Tread On Me' and 'The Struggle Within' that METALLICA has never played live before, Lars said,'Yeah. He added, 'So they wanted us to do something different, and that's what they came up with. pretty much every single summer since then.' 'The thing is, although we haven't played at Donington for six years, we have been to the U.K. 'the black album.' It will be the eighth time the California metal titans will have played at Donington during their three-decade-long career, having previously performed at both Monsters Of Rock and Download festivals.Īsked why METALLICA decided to do the gig, the band's drummer, Lars Ulrich, told Kerrang! magazine, 'The people at Download asked.

performance of the band's top-selling 1991 LP, 'Metallica', a.k.a. METALLICA will headline the 10th installment of the Download festival at Donington Park on Saturday, June 9, 2012, with an exclusive U.K.

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