Released	October 31, 2011 (2011-10-31)
Recorded	April – June 2011 at HQ in San Rafael, CA
Genre	Art rock, avant-garde metal, noise rock, spoken word
Length	87:04
Label	Warner Bros., Vertigo
Producer	Greg Fidelman, Metallica, Lou Reed, Hal Willner
Lou Reed chronology
Hudson River Wind Meditations (2007) Lulu (2011)
Metallica chronology
Death Magnetic (2008) Lulu (2011)
Singles from Lulu
"The View" Released: September 27, 2011 "Iced Honey" Released: October 31, 2011 Metallica and Lou Reed would have to do what most other artists did when recording this album. Firstly they would have had to write each track out and master it to perfection. Shortly after they would have got an artist to script out the album artwork and what they would want inside out of the musical product and even on the CD. After this they would have talked about packaging and how they would want the CD presented, whether they would have wanted it with a dvd accompanied with it, or just a normal album. Next they would probably promote the album by putting up different leaflets and flyers and most likely brodcast a TV advertisement about when the album would be released and what would be feauturing on it.

Interview On "Lulu"

Here is an short interview with Lou Reed, Metallica and Jools Holland.They talk about how Metallica and Lou Reed first came about, during this you can tell the serious face from Lou Reed but at the same time having a laugh,and Jools says he likes the Album a lot. Metallica and Lou reed say that there preformance of iced honey was the first song they have played out of the studio(on "Lulu").

Promotion Of The Album

This is Metallica and Lou Reed preforming one of there new songs, Iced Honey.Apart from this and the interview with Jools Holland, they never really did any other promotional advertisement, only an advert and some posters around. Although in London the posters were taken down due to them being too much like "graffiti".

What is this album like in comparison to others?

This album is completely  different to any of there other albums. In lyric wise a lot of metallica's old work would be very fast and aggressive music.Unlike load and reload also when it was bluesy, the calibration with Lou Reed and Metallica was worse than expected. This album had slow dull riffs with no beat, which let Metallica down because its almost like they rushed it. Lou Reed states "it took weeks to record this album"-this is clearly way to short to be writing and recording the album in.When you listen too majority of the songs, such as the view it has a very slow plodding beat and the vocals are not like Hetfields so therefore they do not stand out as well with the beat unlike there previous songs. Although for a lot of lou reed fans this album is a masterpiece and really shows Lou Reed's true colours.