It sure sounds like a new Metallica album is on its way sometime soon.

While he didn’t come right out and say it, guitarist Kirk Hammett dropped some major hints in an interview with Guitar World.

Hammett was talking about the band working on new music during the pandemic: “we weren’t just sitting around on the couch texting each other, complaining about how we couldn’t work… That was the exact opposite of what happened!“

He added: “We’ve been working through the lost years – so you can draw your own conclusions from that!“

Metallica haven’t released a proper studio album since 2016’s Hardwired… to Self-Destruct.