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According to INFORUM, METALLICA‘s Lars Ulrich was in Fargo on a personal visit this weekend.

According to WDAY-TV’s Assignment Director Stacey Anderson, Ulrich is dating Jessica Miller, the sister of Danielle Miller, one of WDAY’s First News morning anchors.

Ulrich, 48, and Jessica Miller, 28, were in Fargo visiting Danielle Miller, Anderson says.

Jessica Miller is a professional model, and has appeared on the cover of various international editions of Vogue magazine. She has also been a model for Gap, H&M and Chanel, among others.

Ulrich visited the WDAY studios on Saturday, Anderson says, and was also spotted at many other places around town during his weekend visit.

Rolling Stone magazine conducted separate interviews with the four members of METALLICA — guitarist/vocalist James Hetfield, drummer Lars Ulrich, guitarist Kirk Hammett and bassist Robert Trujillo — during a recent visit to the band’s headquarters in San Rafael, California. The full interviews can be found in Rolling Stone‘s “The Big Issue”, as well as online at RollingStone.com.

Video footage of METALLICA‘s cover shoot for “The Big Issue” of Rolling Stone — featuring snippets from the the magazine’s interview with Ulrich — can be seen below. An excerpt follows below.

Rolling Stone: What parts of the Orion festival can you take credit for?

Ulrich: I came up with the name [laughs]. For me, having the ARCTIC MONKEYS on there is big. I think they’re a heavy-metal band disguised as an indie band. If you listen to a song like “Perhaps Vampires Is a Bit Strong But…”, there’s almost a RUSH element in there. AVENGED SEVENFOLD are near and dear to me. They were on the fence about it. They were taking the summer off. I called one of the guys and said, “It would really mean a lot to us.” THE BLACK ANGELS are just cool. A friend of mine said, “Check them out,” and I was like, “Wow, it’s THE DOORS meets something else in 2011.”

Rolling Stone: Were there any bands you invited who said, “No way, we’ll get killed by your fans.”

Ulrich: The issue isn’t with the bands. It’s more if this type of festival can exist from the fans’ point of view. Because we’re doing it, it gets branded as a particular thing. We have to work harder. If Radiohead does it, it’s cool. If we do it, it’s not. I’m stunned that people are stunned by us doing these things. It’s our DNA.

Rolling Stone: The 3D movie is a weird leap, even for you. It has elements of documentary, fiction and live performance, on this crazy stage.

Ulrich: This has been circling for two years. It’s time to life-size it, get it out of our minds and on the screen. And if it’s done right, it can be sensational. You’re not watching METALLICA onstage. You’re onstage with METALLICA. In IMAX, James Hetfield is 38 feet tall, snotting on you, spitting on you. It’s 2,000 decibels. If there is an earthquake outside, you wouldn’t notice. But you can’t do that for 100 minutes. It loses its appeal. There is another element in there – intimate, small, a story that takes place over the same trajectory as the concert. The question is, “Where do they weave in and out of each other?” But you have to cut away from the concert to enjoy the concert.

Rolling Stone: Even at a METALLICA show, you gotta take a break for a beer or a leak.

Ulrich: This idea goes back to the Nineties, when IMAX movies started coming out. We were in talks with them. That’s when an IMAX camera was the size of a house, and they only had 12 minutes of film. You had to stop to reload. But seeing “Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol” in IMAX, which I did the week it came out, and then when we broadcast the “Big Four” show [with ANTHRAX, SLAYER and MEGADETH] from Sofia, Bulgaria, to movie theaters in 2010 — that’s what sealed the deal.
Read the entire article online at RollingStone.com.

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In a brand new interview with SPIN magazine, METALLICA drummer Lars Ulrich was asked if he was surprised by the reaction to “Lulu”, the band’s collaborative album with Lou Reed. “It was more spiteful than anyone was prepared for,” Lars replied. “Especially against Lou. He is such a sweet man. But when METALLICA do impulsive riffing and Lou Reed is reciting abstract poetry about German bohemians from 150 years ago, it can be difficult to embrace.”

Lars also said that he never had second thoughts when sweet Lou came in with lyrics like “I swallow your sharpest cutter / Like a colored man’s dick”. “I understand that to some 13-year-old in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, it can all seem a little cringe-worthy, but to someone raised in an art community in Copenhagen in the late ’60s, that was expected,” he said.

On the topic of Orion Music + More — the two-day festival created by METALLICA that will take place on June 23-24 at Bader Field in Atlantic City, New Jersey — and whether it’s necessary for METALLICA to charge $150 for a ticket, Lars said, “We’re not being paid to play Orion. It costs close to $10 million to put it together. That’s gotta come from somewhere other than, ‘METALLICA‘s gonna write a check.'”

Ulrich told Brazil’s Wikimetal last September that he felt good about recording “Lulu”, which came out to poor sales and disastrous reviews last November. Ulrich said, “It’s definitely very unique, and whether it’s unique in a good way or unique in a not-so-good way, I have no idea yet. The people whose opinions I trust say it’s very good. It feels very good; it’s a lot of fun to do. But whether it’s making a new sound, or paving a new way, I have no idea.”

The drummer added that METALLICA‘s success has given them the freedom to try new things, which is essential to the band’s longevity. He explained, “I think that 30 years in, we have to kind of do these things to keep us alive. If we get stuck doing the same thing over and over again, it becomes automatic . . . that’s not the band I’d like METALLICA to be. I know some people would like METALLICA to make the same record every two years, but that’s not what I want METALLICA to do, and I’m not interested in doing that.”

“Lulu” polarized fans around the world and earned METALLICA some of the most scathing reviews of its career. The effort features the former THE VELVET UNDERGROUND frontman’s spoken-word poetry and lyrics combined with METALLICA‘s musical assault for a jarring experience that doesn’t sound like anything METALLICA has ever attempted before. A concept album based on two early 20th century plays by German author Frank Wedekind, the CD was co-produced by Reed, METALLICA, Hal Willner — who has produced albums for Reed, Marianne Faithfull, and Laurie Anderson, among others — and Greg Fidelman. Fidelman also mixed the record.

The collaboration between METALLICA and Reed was sparked by their performance together of Reed‘s “Sweet Jane” and “White Light/White Heat” at the 25th anniversary of the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame at Madison Square Garden in October of 2009.

The songs were all written by Reed with extensive arrangement contributions by METALLICA.

Only two songs on the album are under five minutes in length, while two are more than 11 minutes long and the closing cut, “Junior Dad“, clocks in at 19 minutes.

Source : Blabbermouth.net