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Following the news back in June that Metallica and Lou Reed were working on a project together there has been an air of excitement in the Sidesixx office.

The title of the album is ‘Lulu’ and was inspired by was inspired by German expressionist writer Frank Wededkind’s plays “Earth Spirit” and “Pandora’s Box,” which tell a story of a young abused dancer’s life and relationships and are now collectively known as the “Lulu Plays.”

Since their publication in the early 1900′s, the plays have been the inspiration for a silent film (“Pandora’s Box,” 1929), an opera, and countless other creative endeavors.

The entire “The View” song — taken from the forthcoming musical collaboration between Lou Reed and METALLICA, “Lulu” — can be streamed in the YouTube clip below.

The musical project between Reed and Metallica will be released on November 1 in North America via Warner Bros. Records and one day earlier (October 31) in the rest of the world through Universal Music.

The songs are inspired by German expressionist Frank Wedekind’s early 20th century plays “Earth Spirit” and “Pandora’s Box”, and were a rewrite of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven”, which emerged as a graphic novel on Fantagraphics Press.

Following the news back in June that Metallica and Lou Reed were working on a project together there has been an air of excitement in the Sidesixx office.

The official website has now been launched and more details of the album have been released.

The title of the album is ‘Lulu’ and was inspired by was inspired by German expressionist writer Frank Wededkind’s plays “Earth Spirit” and “Pandora’s Box,” which tell a story of a young abused dancer’s life and relationships and are now collectively known as the “Lulu Plays.”