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Recently Rolling Stone sat down with James Hetfield to talk about the new album and touring. Here is part of the interview:

You guys have been gigging all year. What new songs have been the most fun to play?
Over the summer we did “Cyanide” and “The Day That Never Comes.” On this tour, we’ll be rotating in four or five new ones every night. We want to give them a chance to become evergreens, like “Fade to Black” or “Seek and Destroy.” They didn’t become evergreens by being a good song on a record, but because we played it, and the crowd learned that they have their own parts to sing.

Where did you write the lyrics for Death Magnetic?
Mostly at home. There was one song called “Shine” — it’s not on the record but will come out sometime — that I wrote at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ceremony in 2006, when we inducted Black Sabbath. I just got inspired, and I wrote it like poetry.

Most likely, Metallica will be inducted into the Hall of Fame next April. Who will be onstage with you?
Everyone that played on a record should be there. You’re considered for the Hall 25 years after your first recording, not after you formed.

That would omit Dave Mustaine.0
He wasn’t on a record. Jason Newsted should be up there — he was in the band for 14 years and played on quite a few records — and so should Robert Trujillo.

Will it be weird to be there with Jason?
There’s no reason for it to be weird. We don’t want to be part of the soap opera of the Hall of Fame. Everybody wants to see a train wreck, like with Blondie onstage arguing over crap [at the 2006 ceremony]. That really cheapens the moment.

Have you listened to the leaked tracks from Chinese Democracy?

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