The 74-year-old metal legend revealed that his latest spine surgery went "great."
The song was featured in the 2019 Netflix biopic.
The masked metalers are slated to kick off their outing at the Nova Rock Festival Wednesday night in Austria.
The drop-in happened in the singer's hometown of Vail, Colorado.
The 74-year-old Prince of Darkness will play at the October Power Trip Festival in Indio, California.
"The songs are sick, the music is gigantic, and the risks were off the charts," Taylor says of his follow-up to 2020's CMFT, due later this year.
The band also joked about drummer Lars Ulrich's obsessive set list fetish.
The group -- which pressed 900,000-plus pieces of vinyl in 2022 alone -- is acquiring most of Furnace Record Pressing in Virginia.
After definitively retiring in 2014, bassist says rock icons may stick it out until their 50th anniversary.
"I think it's going to get heavier, and it's going to get more crazy," says Righteous Vendetta singer Ryan Hayes.
