Metallica‘s former bassist Jason Newsted has mentioned he’s engaged on two new “heavy” tasks.
Newsted has been working along with his bluegrass mission, Jason Newsted and the Chophouse Band, for a number of a long time, and had not too long ago began to include extra metallic influences into the band.
Now, nevertheless, he’s firmly “stepping again into the heavy”, as he defined in an interview with Gator 98.7FM. “So the final couple of weeks I’ve been auditioning guitar gamers for a heavy mission. I’m again on bass and singing with a metallic drummer — double bass — you already know, getting loud once more. So I’ve obtained a few irons within the hearth. I’m placing two new tasks collectively proper now — however loud.” [via Consequence of Sound]
Along with the brand new tasks, Newsted mentioned he had been engaged on the primary Chophouse Band album. “I spent six months of final 12 months placing collectively The Chophouse Band Quantity 1,” he mentioned. “The Chophouse Band has been collectively making music since 1992. So it was our first album after 30 years. I spent plenty of time on that. After which, as soon as I obtained that below my belt, I’m sort of stepping again into the heavy now.”
He had beforehand mentioned that the brand new Chophouse Band album goes “locations which can be as heavy as the rest that I’d been concerned with — Voivod, Ozzy, Metallica, Newsted band, any of that stuff.”
He added: “I can truly actually think about enjoying the guitar after which singing that background stuff. And there’s screaming and a few [growling] additionally. So I nonetheless haven’t misplaced that. And it lets folks know that there’s nonetheless one foot in that place. You possibly can take the boy out of the metallic [but] you possibly can’t take the metallic out of the boy; it’s simply the way in which it’s at all times gonna be.”
Newsted was a member of Metallica from 1986-2001, enjoying bass on their albums ‘… And Justice For All’ (1988), ‘Metallica’ (1991), ‘Load’ (1996) and ‘Reload” (1997). He later departed to give attention to different tasks.
His former bandmates joked as we speak that they couldn’t “consider” they weren’t Rihanna’s backing singers at her Tremendous Bowl Halftime present after posting a clip of themselves singing ‘Diamonds’ on Carpool Karaoke.
