wow @ fake metallicas: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WX04ktKI9SY
― Jordan, Friday, 29 August 2008 17:04 (fifteen years ago) link
Maditory (sic) actually do a better 80s Metallica impression than 00s Metallica do from the sound of that.
― chap, Friday, 29 August 2008 17:09 (fifteen years ago) link
anyone else think My Apocalypse sounds really Slayer-ish at times?
NYT write-up on it.
― rockapads, Sunday, 31 August 2008 17:43 (fifteen years ago) link
I would like a "My Apocolypse" ringtone.
― Eazy, Sunday, 31 August 2008 18:10 (fifteen years ago) link
not half-bad. okay, maybe a quarter bad.
― latebloomer, Sunday, 31 August 2008 18:58 (fifteen years ago) link
still.
wow @ fake metallicas
Hmm. Very good Metallica by the numbers, and not bad as a parody or homage, but certainly not as good as the stuff on the first 4 Metallica albums
― res, Sunday, 31 August 2008 20:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Um, there's something called "The Unforgiven III" on here.
― Lie Bot, Sunday, 31 August 2008 22:24 (fifteen years ago) link
My Alolcalypse
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 31 August 2008 22:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Almost from the start progress equals integrity was an article of faith for the band. Each of its evolutions seemed to challenge hardcore metal’s cult values of speed and power and emotional guardedness.
fair or unfair?
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 31 August 2008 22:39 (fifteen years ago) link
the drums and the vocals are terrible. the guitar playing is awesome though, the beginning sounds like early 70's genesis.
― akm, Sunday, 31 August 2008 22:41 (fifteen years ago) link
Album version of "Cyanide" has now surfaced.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sm4EADT8k5U
It's gooood. They just go nuts with the NWOBHM passages in the break, and they don't feel tacked on whatsoever.
― A. Begrand, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 05:53 (fifteen years ago) link
eww. just sounds like that song from the mission impossible soundtrack with a bit of "kill 'em all" plagiarism in the middle.
― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 07:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Listening to "Cyanide" right now. It sounds like...Prong. That opening riff, and the drumbeat, are pure Prove You Wrong-era Prong. I like it a lot.
― unperson, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 13:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Media: "Country icon Johnny Cash, beloved the world over, dead at 206. Tomorrow, more of our continuing coverage on the life and times of this American trailblazer. Oh, yeah, and Jack Tripper also croaked today for some reason. Now on to the weather."
Total Groucho Marx / Elvis scenario...
Other simultaneous musician/thesp deaths:
Thelonious Monk/Lee Strasberg (2/17/02) Peter Tosh/Lorne Greene (9/11/87)
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 13:55 (fifteen years ago) link
(2/17/0282)
fixed
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 13:57 (fifteen years ago) link
"The Day That Never Comes" doesn't sound so good to me; even though it's apparently modeled on MOP-era Metallica, it wouldn't even be as good as one of the lesser tracks on those albums. And what's with Hetfield singing instead of growling?
― res, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 19:27 (fifteen years ago) link
MOP-era Metallica
someone has to make this collaboration happen.
― M@tt He1ges0n, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 19:31 (fifteen years ago) link
>And what's with Hetfield singing instead of growling?
Where the hell have you been? He's been singing since "Nothing Else Matters" on the Black Album.
― unperson, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 19:43 (fifteen years ago) link
no, it's much different than that type of singing. if you listen to the song, you wouldn't even recognize it as Hetfield at all.
― res, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 19:51 (fifteen years ago) link
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3082/2820910585_b2c5264dab.jpg
― Jeff Treppel, Wednesday, 3 September 2008 00:34 (fifteen years ago) link
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3068/2821750490_a46ec25135.jpg
It's leaked.
― A. Begrand, Wednesday, 3 September 2008 00:39 (fifteen years ago) link
I can wait the week or two until it comes out. I'm probably going to end up buying the damn thing anyway.
― Jeff Treppel, Wednesday, 3 September 2008 00:42 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm determined to get a timely review done, so the sooner the better for me! But yeah, I'll be buying.
― A. Begrand, Wednesday, 3 September 2008 00:44 (fifteen years ago) link
I find myself wanting to take this song by song rather than the whole thing at once.
― calstars, Wednesday, 10 September 2008 22:40 (fifteen years ago) link
It's a good album. Really!
Could do without "Unforgiven III" and the instrumental, but other than that, this is one solid CD.
― A. Begrand, Wednesday, 10 September 2008 22:46 (fifteen years ago) link
It's decent, but "good" might be pushing ot to far. All the musical near-quotes just make me want to play the early stuff. I can't imagine choosing to listen too this if I'm in the mood for Metallica. I guess it is nice to be able to say they don't suck now.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 10 September 2008 22:57 (fifteen years ago) link
I went to Best Buy yesterday to buy this, but apparently it doesn't come out until Friday. Lame.
― Jeff Treppel, Wednesday, 10 September 2008 23:45 (fifteen years ago) link
http://pics.livejournal.com/billylickalolly/pic/0003ayt2.jpg
― 6335, Thursday, 11 September 2008 21:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Ok, can I say I have no idea why people are cumming or even mildly smiling over this?
The album's listenable (which, ok, I'll admit I said that was "all I'm asking for"), but...James sounds like a dead clown. His voice sounds shot to hell and I hear digital pitch correction about 75% of the time.
Nothing about the songwriting is bad. Nothing about the songwriting is particularly 'good' either. It's leaps beyond St. Anger, but...well St. Anger was dogshit.
I've tried desparately to get into any of the six tracks I've heard, but...they're just not interesting! I just think a lot of the overhype is due to people who are so ecstatic that Metallica don't sound like complete anal drippage anymore that they've overrated it to hell, just like Megadeth's mediocre The System Has Failed.
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Friday, 12 September 2008 03:42 (fifteen years ago) link
and Unforgiven III? Come on.....though ok, to be fair, how many "Sear Me"s did My Dying Bride have?
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Friday, 12 September 2008 03:44 (fifteen years ago) link
The layered booklet is pretty cool, although it doesn't really like going back into the jewel case.
― Jeff Treppel, Saturday, 13 September 2008 02:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Jewel case? All I saw were digipaks. (which I tend to prefer)
― A. Begrand, Saturday, 13 September 2008 02:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Best Buy only had jewel cases, so I got what I saw. And I'm on the fourth track right now, and quite enjoying the record. Some production stuff I don't like, but the songs are totally solid.
― Jeff Treppel, Saturday, 13 September 2008 02:35 (fifteen years ago) link
The clicking base drums are starting to get to me, though...
― Jeff Treppel, Saturday, 13 September 2008 02:47 (fifteen years ago) link
bass
Ya know, this isn't that bad of a record.
Kinda like if they had made one in 1990 between Justice and the black one.
Jamez gets some crooning in on, I don't know off-hand, Track 4? And the crazy part was realizing how Thurstony Moore it sounded.
― Pleasant Plains, Saturday, 13 September 2008 03:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Personally I like album's overall dry tone, especially the drums. Reminds me of the Rubin sound of 88-90, Slayer, Danzig, Wolfsbane, etc.
― A. Begrand, Saturday, 13 September 2008 03:52 (fifteen years ago) link
I like it - a lot. I've listened to it more than a half dozen times since downloading it last week, and I went out and bought one (jewel case, $10; the digipak is a version that has the album and tracks from it, formatted for Guitar Hero and Rock Band and shit like that, and at Best Buy it cost $40 - double vinyl was $15) at lunchtime yesterday.
― unperson, Saturday, 13 September 2008 17:27 (fifteen years ago) link
I went and bought the OST to Side Show and the new Dragonforce instead.
― Officer, I Just Shot Seven People (Bo Jackson Overdrive), Saturday, 13 September 2008 19:06 (fifteen years ago) link
I wanted to like the new DragonForce more than I do, it's definitely their best one to date, but it wears thin after a couple of plays. Too relentless and hammering. It gives me a headache.
― unperson, Saturday, 13 September 2008 19:26 (fifteen years ago) link
Well...I will say, Dragonforce is guilty of having really gay choruses. I'd rather listen to Symphony X, but well...I've bought the best Symphony X albums already and while the new Cryptopsy actually sounds like it's pretty good, it's one month after my death metal phase ended :(
― Officer, I Just Shot Seven People (Bo Jackson Overdrive), Saturday, 13 September 2008 20:59 (fifteen years ago) link
I actually like "The Unforgiven III," but they really should have called it something else.
― Death Phlegmatic (J3ff T.), Saturday, 13 September 2008 22:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Yea, like "Creep" by Stone Temple Pilots....
― Officer, I Just Shot Seven People (Bo Jackson Overdrive), Saturday, 13 September 2008 22:35 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm quite into this, contrary to my expectations. There are at least five properly good tracks. No idea why they released The Day That Never Comes as a single, it's the pussiest song by far.
― chap, Sunday, 14 September 2008 13:53 (fifteen years ago) link
my friend burned me a copy, can't imagine I'll play it much. James sounds like shit vocally.
― Officer, I Just Shot Seven People (Bo Jackson Overdrive), Sunday, 14 September 2008 14:03 (fifteen years ago) link
I like how our expectations have been lowered so much that Metallica putting out a totally decent album is considered a triumph.
― Death Phlegmatic (J3ff T.), Sunday, 14 September 2008 23:53 (fifteen years ago) link
It was a brilliant idea. Metallica did it on purpose.
― Officer, I Just Shot Seven People (Bo Jackson Overdrive), Monday, 15 September 2008 02:18 (fifteen years ago) link
why else did they let their psychologist write lyrics