The new album from Metallica is taking shape as the band recently revealed the progress of their record, which is likely to come out anytime next year.

In a recent report by Loud Wire, singer and guitarist James Hetfield expressed how excited he is to hear what the band has in store for the record, being particular with the guitar tracks.

"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."

At the same time, he also talked about their relationship with ESP guitars and EMG pickups, wherein he also revealed that he created a signature guitar with.

"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," he said.

Furthermore, guitarist Kirk Hammett revealed the main progress of the new Metallica album in an interview with Billboard.

He revealed how he has a huge number of riffs lined up for more songs and that the progress of the new album is taking shape.

"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 new album from Metallica is expected to come out in 2016.