Metallica Consider Publishing Online, Look to Radiohead & NIN

So it sounds like Metallica, long portrayed as Evil Enemies of the Internets, have finally opened their great metallic minds to the possibilities of the online universe. In a recent phone chat with Rolling Stone, kinda ironically on Record Store Day, beast-of-a-drummer Lars Ulrich talked to the mag about life after the band's final Warner Bros. release:

Lars: You know, this is our last record under contract with Warner, so we're looking at how we can embrace everything.

RS: Like a 360 deal with Live Nation?

Lars: Mmm, we've never sold ourselves that way. No disrespect. We want to be as free a players as possible. We've been observing Radiohead and Trent Reznor, and in twenty-seven years or however long it takes for the next record, we'll be looking forward to everything in terms of possibilities with the Internet.