METALLICA!!!!

They were already on top of the game, they were selling out arenas, platnum records and all by magazine articals and word of mouth. They put out that “Clif em all” home video as an act of rebellion and the bloody thing sold like hot cakes! They didn’t need to get out. Except record executive, who could care a less about music put the scare into them, offered them huge money and stuck them with tip-top producer BOB ROCK not with their interests in mind but the billion dollar recording industry.

I don’t hate Metallica. I don’t mean to offend the people who grew up with “Black” or step on anyones feet to those who were introduced by “Black.” I’m just trying to explain the particular outrage of the fan base at “Black” for those who may not have been there or were too young.

yeah st anger was shit but load and re-load were great albums

stop looking into it to much and stop being so petty

just put it in and listen over and over agin!!!!

Now i’d like to address the following points:
“The Black Album” was described as crud by “music fan”, i beg to differ… It is without doubt the heaviest album i’ve ever heard and it opened my eyes to the great wonder that is music in general! The first time i heard “Sad but True” i was convinced there was at least 10 guitars being played such was the thickness/chunk of the guitar sound! It wasn’t a thrash record, but it was and is brilliant!

I don’t understand how anyone can say that Megadeath are offering better releases then this. Every megadeath album sound the same as the last, not that i don’t like them, i do but for god sake i’ll take experimentation and evolution by a band anytime over the same sound and riffs for 20 albums!

Metallica are not back, they never left! What they did was grow up and enter the 21st century! I would suggest that all the nay sayers and haters out there need to do the same!

18 years later. . . not the polished Metallica I’d like to hear. these guys are older and much more screwed up, lazy & sloppy musicians, god awful arrangements on some tunes. They really had to force themselves to come up with something I can hear it.

However, I digress, Death Magnetic is a return to the SPIRT of Metallica when the music mattered. in the sence that the music takes precedence over Bob Rock’s precious production. They were able to write the music & make the record the way they wanted which was a big selling point for me not to mention that I paid under 10 dollars which is AWESOME. It’s their music again not Bob Rock. Death Magnetic is not perfection & as I’ve read all over the net, there are a billion bands out there today much tighter & better. I agree & I listen to them too.

Ramblin’ on . . .

Hearing Metallica playing the music they helped invent no matter how sloppy (at times which I forgive) is something I wanted to see before I die.

So it’s about time! LOL!!

Death Magnetic – I LIKE IT A LOT! LOL!!

Load and Reload were great albums in my eyes. Sure they wernt thrash, but it was music. good music. And St.Anger?? I dont cares what any one say i love that album!

And tell them…

Sure, it’s the best thing Metallica has done in ages. But better than Load? No. Load wasn’t much of a Thrash album, but it was well executed.

Yes, St. Anger was a catastrophe. So is the plastic sound of Death Magnetic, the stupendeously simple drumming, the only slightly better riffing, and the – oh god – audible voice correction of Hetfield’s singing.

Granted, Kirk Hammett’s guitar work rocks! But there’s not an overwhelming lot of it, and it’s kind of crammed into the rest of the recording as if they desperately tried to come up with some, any sort of framework to fit it in – and succeeded only somewhat above St. Anger levels.

But what gets me more is that other bands of the time – Overkill, Testament, Megadeth, Exodus, you name them – still produce vastly more solid outputs. Some of them showed similarly large or larger gaps in their productivity, but when they came back, they came back rocking (for the most part).

So measured by the standards of Metallica, their latest is a great step forward from their recent history, and pretty good in parts, but by no means fantastic. By the standards of the rest of the scene, it’s mediocre at best.

Still, it gives some hope for the next one, there’s an upwards trend.

No i won’t. It sounds like shit. Death Magnetic is another victim in loudness war. Sad.