Metallica continue to drip-feed information about their Death Magnetic album, signifying that they’re working non-stop to get fans excited about this release. And it’s working.

Today they released the album artwork (above) which features a coffin and notably the classic Metallica logo rather than the modern version that graced the Load albums. We just wish we had schoolbags again to etch that logo into an old canvas bag…ahhh.

In other news, metal fans, the band are blazing a trail by ensuring the entire album will be available for Guitar Hero III: Legends Of Rock at the time of its release. This is quite a pioneering move for the band, and gives weight to the game makers recent claim that Guitar Hero could viably rival iTunes!

It wouldn’t be our preferred way of listening to music, but there you go…

Death Magnetic is scheduled for release on 22nd September (not so far away now, eh) and was produced by Metallica and Rick Rubin. The new era of thrash is almost upon us, friends. Let’s start sewing metal patches on our denim jackets like in the glory days…