According to drummer Lars Ulrich, Metallica's new studio album, 'St. Anger', will be "pretty aggressive" and a return to their old "heavy " style.

Speaking to MTV, Ulrich, explained:

"We've been a lot of different places musically over the last year and a half, and a couple of months go we sort of came back around to some heavy, aggressive, fast, dynamic, a lot of tempo changes, kind of shit. And that felt really comfortable again. We hadn't done it for a while. Maybe we were keeping it at bay, whatever. All of a sudden it was like that old pair of shoes you have in the closet that you haven't worn for a while, but that felt really fucking good to have on again. It's pretty aggressive, and the people who like that side of us will not be disappointed."

'St. Anger' is set for a world-wide release in June, however the exact date of a UK release was thrown into turmoil earlier this month when the band split with long-time UK label Universal.

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