Metallica in London, Photo: Wikipedia
By: Staff
The impending Lou Reed/Metallica joint venture now has a name and a website, where the legendary combination have posted some updated information on the project, which is confirmed for an October 31st release date. The album will be called Lulu and be based off/inspired by a pair of German plays.
The project, which includes tracks entitled “Mistress Dread,” “Pumping Blood” and “Junior Dad” has a temporary site at Loureedmetallica.com, where they just issued a statement statement about their collaboration:
“The musical collaboration between Lou Reed and Metallica, ‘Lulu,’ is coming your way this Fall and this space will be your spot for all things Loutallica(!). We want to start sharing with you just how the ‘Lulu’ project, recorded at HQ just a few short months ago, is coming together. As you can see this site is a work in progress and the plan is to build it before your very eyes. Please bear with us while we piece it all together!”
They continue about the origins of the project:
“’Lulu’ was inspired by German expressionist writer Frank Wededkind’s plays ‘Earth Spirit’ and ‘Pandora’s Box,’ which tell a story of a young abused dancer’s life and relationships and are now collectively known as the ‘Lulu Plays.’ Since their publication in the early 1900’s, the plays have been the inspiration for a silent film (‘Pandora’s Box,’ 1929), an opera, and countless other creative endeavors. Originally the lyrics and musical landscape were sketched out by Lou for a theatrical production in Berlin, but after coming together with the ‘Tallica boys for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame concerts in New York in 2009 all guilty parties knew they wanted to make more music together. Lou was inspired enough by that performance to recently ask the band to join him in taking his theatrical ‘Lulu’ piece to the next level and so starting in early May of this year we were all camped out recording at HQ studios in Northern California, bringing us to today and ten complete songs.”
Updates will be posted often on the Lulu site, so check back often!
