Metallica have announced they shall be releasing an eight-track live EP on September 20th.

The new live EP, “Six Feet Down Under”, shall feature tracks recorded during gigs in Australia and will be released via their official website to mark the closing of their “World Magnetic” tour.

The eight-track EP shall features cuts from performances from 1989 up to 2004.

The band revealed more on their website;

“Here’s the story . . . the collective brain trust came up with what we thought might be a kinda fun idea . . . how about some live recordings from each time we have been lucky enough to visit the area? It was all well and good until we realized that we did not start making multi-track recordings of every show until 2004 . . . oops! But you guys, the fans, came to our rescue with some pretty decent bootleg options and we trimmed those down to two songs from each tour in 1989, 1993, 1998, and 2004. In digging a little deeper, it occurred to us that we had tracks that had never before been released as “live b-sides” (we’re not counting the bonus songs on i-Tunes, okay?) and that that added to the adventure of pulling it all together.

Be gentle with us . . . a few of these songs are, well, we’ll say “rough,” which may be an understatement!! They do, however, capture the live moments and hopefully you’ll have as much fun listening as we did playing on those nights.”

To see the full tracklisting for the album, click here.