But Lulu nevertheless stands out as a famously hated record because Lou Reed is one of the most acclaimed songwriters in rock history, and Metallica is the single most successful metal band of all ...

Simply put, Lulu doesn’t do either act justice. Lou Reed and Metallica recording together sounds like a misguided Girl Talk effort, and it’s hard to listen to. Neither seems comfortable with the other ...

The whole concept-heavy album thing — so, so predictably — blocks any empathy with Reed over the course of the 90+ minutes of Lulu.

After dropping snippets of music for the past couple of weeks, Lou Reed and Metallica have finally unleashed the highly "anticipated" Lulu into the wild. You can stream the full album here.

She wasn’t even dissuaded by Lulu, the band’s wildly controversial 2011 team-up with Lou Reed—an album that still churns up hatred rivaled by only a few others (including, interestingly ...

Lou Reed and Metallica have unveiled the full tracklisting of their Lulu collaboration. The project is based around the plays of Frank Wedekind and will be released in the UK via Universal on ...

No, there is not one conventionally good song on Lulu, the 87-minute, hyped-to-infinity, Frankenstein's monster of Lou Reed babble and Metallica chug that came out the day after Halloween. Not really.

Its 10 songs run nearly 95 minutes, Metallica driving riffs deliberately and repetitively, and Reed’s monotonous voice rambling into atonal realms that at their most obnoxious are quite disturbing.

An album-length collaboration between towering rock deities Lou Reed and Metallica was announced earlier this summer. As the months passed, various elements of the project were revealed – the title ...

Metallica 's Kirk Hammett recently revealed why he's "afraid" to listen Lulu, Metallica's 2011 album with The Velvet Underground 's Lou Reed. The collaborative effort received mixed reviews from ...

Award-winning director Darren Aronofsky will direct a music video from the new Metallica and Lou Reed album, "Lulu." Best-known for his Oscar-nominated films "Black Swan" and "The Wrestler ...

Metallica and Lou Reed have announced the name of their new album together. The musical pairing revealed that their first collaborative album will be named Lulu and is due to be released on ...