Metallica: How Earl Grey tea fuels the band's music
BBC Music Correspondent
"There are pictures of us at the top of Tampa Stadium with our pants off, flashing everybody. It's four o'clock in the afternoon and we're already drunk off our asses." "The days of going off your rocker all night and watching the sun rise are somewhat behind us," says Ulrich, over the phone from America."There's a teapot and a cup right in front of me, within arm's reach," he laughs.
When it came to creating Metallica's 11th album, 72 Seasons, Ulrich did what he always does: cued up a conveyor belt of steaming hot tea, and began to sift through months of material. From the outset, Hetfield guns the accelerator. The title track is full of razor-edged thrash guitars, breakneck rhythms and vivid lyrics about the "wrath of man".
For Ulrich, who was raised an only child in bohemian Denmark, that means feeling like a "loner" and a "misfit", despite selling 125 million records worldwide. "I get my ass to the gym and stay there longer than I have in the past," admits the drummer. "And the interesting thing, as you get older, is that you have to put more effort in just to stay at the same level or even keep the plateau horizontal."
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