To do the Ozzfest again would be great. I'd like to finish with a final Sabbath album. You always feel that it is still a challenge.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I was so frustrated in Sabbath after the last few albums. I just didn't like the musical direction Sabbath was going in.
Being on Ozzfest has been a great way for us to break out and show metal fans that we have a heavy side.
That's really the thing that got me into playing a lot - getting excited about playing along with my favorite bands like Zeppelin and Black Sabbath.
I wouldn't do just a tour, it would have to be an album, and the album would have to beat Pull.
I once asked Ozzy Osbourne, truly one of my favorite people in the world, if he was cool with singing Black Sabbath songs year after year, whether he was performing with Black Sabbath or out on a solo tour. He said it was great.
Toward the later days of Sabbath, instead of going in and knocking out what songs we did in rehearsal, we would polish them to death.
Who doesn't like to play Black Sabbath tunes!
Metallica is going to be one of those bands you look back on in the year 2008, that people will still listen to the way I still listen to Zeppelin and Sabbath albums.
I truly felt that was going to be my last tour. So here we are again and I'm saying this will probably be my last tour. That's truly the way I'm looking at it.
We just done doing The Blessed Hellride tour and Ozzfest.