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Artwork for the New Lou Reed/Metallica Collaboration Album

It’s coming on Halloween:  a collaboration between MetallicaTM and the Grumpiest Man in RockTM.  And its a concept album, too.

The whole record is based around a play written in 1913 by a German dude named Frank Wedekind.  It tells the story of an abused dancer–which, of course, is the kind of thing Lou would write about but far from a typical Metallica muse.  Read more here.

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