Metallica's Lars Ulrich speaks in favor of music streaming services even after filing a lawsuit against Napster last 2000. The legendary rock icon is now back in the studio recording a New Metallica Album which will be a lot heavier than their previous releases.
In 2000, Napster, a file-sharing service was sued by Metallica, led by the drummer Lars Ulrich. It was because the said file-sharing company released Metallica's demo version of their song 'I Disappear' without any consent from them, thus, nothing was being offered to them.
According to Blabbermouth, Lars Ulrich, drummer of Metallica said that time that it was not about money, it was about their right about their own music being distributed or not. Ulrich explained at the time that all they want as an artist was choice. "There's nothing to argue about that. Nobody has the right to do with our music whatever they want. We do. We're saying as much as the next band want to work with Napster, we have the right not to," added Ulrich.
Fast forward 15 years after the Napster case, Lars Ulrich is now in favor of the music streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music. It's not like he did not want it before, but 15 years ago there was no such platform as these music streaming services.
As Lars told the BBC World Service, "I believe streaming is good for music, yeah. The one thing I read a lot is... People sit there and go, 'I'm not getting paid very much for streaming.' But there's one major thing that gets overlooked in that argument and in the whole thing, [and that] is that streaming is a choice on all fronts." Lars did not change his mindset; he still insists that every artist has a right to their own creation.
It was in 2008 since Metallica released an album, and now fans are waiting for a new one. Kirk Hammet, according to the Guardian said that he already had riffs for their supposed coming album, it was just he lost his iPhone and all his files was there. However, he gave fans ideas what would their next album sound like and he went on saying that it would be "super riffy, super heavy"
Robert Trujillo also added: "I can tell you that what we're doing sounds heavy, but again, each album is its own little experience. So we'll just have to wait and see."
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