According to Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett, the band will begin working on a new album – the follow up to 2008’s Death Magnetic – in a couple of weeks.

“When we start, that’s going to be our main priority, and we’re pretty excited about it because we’ve been saying we need to start working on this album, but we’ve been procrastinating greatly with it,” Hammett told Billboard. “We’ve pretty much come up with every sort of excuse we can not to start work on the album, but we’ve run out of excuses, so we pretty much have to start work on it now.”

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Hammett says there is no shortage of ideas for the new album.

“You hear about these bands that are sitting in the studio and they don’t have any songs, what are they gonna do? That’s not Metallica. Metallica’s problem is the total opposite. We have too many ideas. James [Hetfield] has, like, 800 ideas. I have 400. Those number alone are just crazy. That’s formidable.”

Metallica will make an appearance at next Sunday’s Grammy Awards, performing at the ceremony for the first time in 23 years.