Lars said:
"Once again, James went home to his family after we finished recording. He tries to spend as much time with them as possible. He sends his love."
"I folded my label, loved working with the bands, could not deal with all the horse shit that came with it."
"Launch Party is in the process of being put on the calendar. We will get to it as soon as we can."
"Anybody can beat Anna K in Tennis, even Myles"
"Dude, as of May 17th Bob has played every single bass note on the record. We are keeping our minds open but right now it feels so fucking right."
"Once again, Bob Rocks on the bass in the studio and we have not even thought about who's gonna join the band when the record is done."
"Sammy was fuckin awesome. Was soo fun to be on stage again. Sammy NEVER sounded heavier."
"The studio pix will happen as soon as Niclas gets his lazy ass over to the studio to take some pictures."
"Right now I have about 3 different drunklits(his spelling) setup in the studio and have a lot of fun with all different kinds of setup."
"We spent the last few days working on a Ramones really cool stuff for the ramones tribute album. We started with seven songs now narrowed it down to four and having a shitload of fun with it. The only problem is every two seconds somebody comes up with a super cool Metallica thing that we keep working on instead of finishing our Ramones songs."
"I got a call from Jason last week from the road, he said he was having fun, sounded good"
He also said that they will try to make it to the Bash.

Kirk didn't really say much because as always, Lars did most of the talking.

(Thanks to the Metallica Club, Lars, Kirk, and Athenisis and JaymzMistress for putting everything they said together)