By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:13:04 +0000

edit
Him overusing James vocals is the top reason James sounds like bad now
Was going to say like crap but I felt like I would be overusing the word crap,so I changed it to bad but forgot to delete the like part.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:07:42 +0000

Nice review.I especially liked the Jason Newsted comments.He’s an amazing bass player but they never let him shine I always tell every metallica fan who I hear bashing him to listen to Flotsam & Jetsam.Robert Trujillo is pretty good himself though.Saw them live and he was playing the Cliff Burton songs with ease and was very impressize.Lars is absolutely terrible now.Back in the day he was just a alright drummer,now.Holy shit.He has completely lost it.James is still good on rhythm but not what he once was,and his vocals are crap now.Kirk is well…he should just be kicked out of the band along with Lars at this point Death Magnetic could’ve been a whole lot better with some competent musicans playing it.
Now onto my review of the album itself.
A Metallica album without solos is naturally crap.Kirk is and always has been a average lead guitarist.But he made up for it with top-notch solos.St.Anger features Kirk at his worst as a lead guitarist when he was never that good of one to begin with,and doesn’t feature any solos to make up for that fact.Ohh and is there even a “lead guitarist” on the album?It’s more of a dual-lead guitar album not because Kirk does nothing so seperate himself from James here.
Lars sounds like he’s hiting his drum sticks on pots and pans in his kitchen while recording it with a 5 doller tape recorder from Wal-Mart.Why Bob Rock and James didn’t laugh Lars idea of playing with a all steal drum kit off I will never know.
But there are some bright spots,The riff on “Some Kinda Monster” is pretty good compared to the usual standered of crap that Kirk established on St.Anger and the chorus is catchy but the lyrics are repetive and it’s to long,St.Anger has it’s bright spots,and Frantic is decent other than some of the lyrics like
“Frantic tick-tick-tock” and “My lifestyle determines my death style”.
if metallica went back right now and re-mastered it with Lars giving a decent performance,and using a normal drum set maybe get James to re-record his vocals,get Trujillo to re-record the bass parts that Bob Rock royally screwed up and they would clear up all the production issues it would be pretty listenable.Bob Rock is such a bad producer it’s not even funny.Him overusing James vocals is the top reason James sounds like bad now,and he always either makes the production sound way to clean and pop oriented or like they recorded it in a garage with 20 bucks worth of equipment.

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