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Lars Ulrich knows what you think of "Lux Æterna." Well, maybe. But the Metallica drummer has revealed that he does browse the online comment sections when Metallica releases new music. Once artists attain the celebrity status of the Metallica guys, many decide to willfully ignore whatever people on the internet have to say about them for the sake of their own sanity. However, Ulrich has revealed that he feels the compulsion to peer into the minds of his fanbase every now and again, especially when he and his bandmates release their first piece of new music in six years.
"If you decide to go down into the comment sections, at least for me, you have to prepare yourself for not taking any of it overly personally," Ulrich told Metal Hammer in a new interview. "You have to kind of remove yourself from it. But I'd like to challenge anybody in a band to say they don't look at comments.
"I mean, I'm not sitting up until four o'clock in the morning scrolling through every one. But when you haven't put any music out in five or six years and you dump something like 'Lux Æterna' on an unsuspecting world, you're going to want to see what the feedback is."
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