Metallica Bassist Recording Album With Side Project, Echo Brain
Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett will guest on power trio's disc.
Metallica bassist Jason Newsted is busy recording an album with a new project called Echo Brain.
"It's being described as a power trio," Elektra Records publicist Sherry Ring Ginsberg said. In addition to Newsted, the band includes guitarist Dylan Dokin and drummer Brian Sagrafena.
Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett will take a guest turn on the album, and members of the San Francisco Symphony also have been talked about as additional collaborators, Ginsberg said. Metallica recorded last year's S&M, which includes the song "No Leaf Clover" (RealAudio excerpt), with the San Francisco Symphony.
"He hopes to have it finished by summer," Ginsberg said.
