Metallica is working on their new album and guitarist Kirk Hammett and singer James Hetfield revealed what they have in store for the record.

According to a recent interview, which was reported by Loud Wire, Hammett revealed that the band is currently recording the new Metallica album, as they are now working on the guitar tracks for the record.

"I tell ya, we're recording right now, and there's the number one guitar, there's the number two guitar, there's the number three," Hetfield said in an interview. "And here's the third-track guitars that just sound different. They all sound different."

In the same interview, he revealed how they're using signature guitars made for them by ESP using EMG pickups.

"Unbelievable to be sitting here thinking I designed a guitar, well, I'm not gonna take all the credit obviously, but taking a classic shape, redesigning and thinking of the idea for developing a clean pickup that had dynamics, that had power and having it sit here in a guitar and me recording an album after 35 years with it - awesome."

Kirk Hammett also talked about the new Metallica album in an interview conducted by Billboard a few months back.

According to the guitarist, they have a long list for riffs ready for the record.

"We have well over a dozen songs and we still have well over two or three hundred riffs, too, so it's hard to say at what point we actually are in in the project," the Metallica guitarist said. "I don't think we hit the middle point yet. I would say we're at the 25 percent point, maybe 30 percent point."

The upcoming record from the metal group will be their 10^th studio release and will be a follow up to their 2008 release "Death Magnetic."

The new Metallica album is expected to come out sometime in 2016.