Metallica's frontman recently confirmed that their new album is currently in the works. According to him, the band is currently recording.

"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," Metallica's frontman said in an interview with EMGtv, as quoted by Loudwire. "And here's the third-track guitars that just sound different. They all sound different."

In the interview, according to the Youtube description posted on the official EMGpickupsTV account, the metal legend discussed "his inspiration for the EMG Het Set and his three signature ESP guitars - Truckster, Snakebyte and Iron Cross.

According to Hetfield, the Truckster guitar came out of his "car world" while the Iron Cross guitar "looks like it's been through a few World Wars," the Loudwire report also noted.

According to the official product page for James Hetfield's Signature Guitar Series, the "Snakebyte" comes with 6 different variants.

"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," Hetfield also said in the video.

Watch the entire video of Hetfield talking details about his new ESP guitars, EMG Het Set and quick comments about Metallica's new album below:

Back in April, Kirk Hammett, Metallica's guitarist, revealed updates about the band's upcoming album. "We have a lot of good songs," Hammett shared to Billboard.

"The songs are ever-changing at this point. Nothing is etched in stone. We still have a lot of material have to sift through, still. 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."

"I don't think we hit the middle point yet," he continued. "I would say we're at the 25 percent point, maybe 30 percent point. It's hard to say, but I mean we are working on it and there are songs and we're making plans to write more songs and record."

Metallica's last proper full studio album was released seven years ago. "Death Magnetic," which debuted in 2008 includes tracks such as "That Was Just Your Life," "All Nightmare Long," "Suicide & Redemption," "The Day That Never Comes" and "The End of the Line."