As plans were been made to go into the recording studio in 2001 by famous US band Metallica, their bass guitarist Jason Newstad left the band due as he put it to ‘A physical damage I have done to myself over years playing in Metallica’.

Metallica's new album will be titled "Death Magnetic" and is expected in September via Warner Bros. The news was revealed over the weekend via the band's Web site.

No new material has been played live at the band's handful of recent shows, but British journalists have heard rough mixes of six untitled songs, several of which cross the seven-minute mark.

Metallica will make its first in-store appearance in nearly a decade on April 19, as part of Record Store Day, a promotional event for independent music retailers.
The band will participate in a signing and meet-and-greet at Rasputin Music’s Mountain View store, near San Francisco.