Metallica have revealed that their long awaited new studio album will be entitled 'Death Magnetic'.

The name of the album, which is expected in September, was released in letter stages on the bands website.

Despite a number of high profile festival performances over recent weeks, the band have refrained from previewing songs off the new record live.

But a number of journalists, who were played rough mixes of the record recently, have reported that it contains some songs over seven minutes long.

It's understood that the band will hit the road in October in support of the record.

(by Jason Gregory)