Metallica! Rick Rubin! Death Magnetic! September 16 (-ish)!

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

Um, there's something called "The Unforgiven III" on here.

My Alolcalypse

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?

the drums and the vocals are terrible. the guitar playing is awesome though, the beginning sounds like early 70's genesis.

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.

eww. just sounds like that song from the mission impossible soundtrack with a bit of "kill 'em all" plagiarism in the middle.

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.

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)

(2/17/0282)

fixed

"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?

MOP-era Metallica

someone has to make this collaboration happen.

>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.

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.

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It's leaked.

I can wait the week or two until it comes out. I'm probably going to end up buying the damn thing anyway.

I'm determined to get a timely review done, so the sooner the better for me! But yeah, I'll be buying.

I find myself wanting to take this song by song rather than the whole thing at once.

It's a good album. Really!

Could do without "Unforgiven III" and the instrumental, but other than that, this is one solid CD.

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.

I went to Best Buy yesterday to buy this, but apparently it doesn't come out until Friday. Lame.

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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.

and Unforgiven III? Come on.....though ok, to be fair, how many "Sear Me"s did My Dying Bride have?

The layered booklet is pretty cool, although it doesn't really like going back into the jewel case.

Jewel case? All I saw were digipaks. (which I tend to prefer)

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.

The clicking base drums are starting to get to me, though...

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.

Personally I like album's overall dry tone, especially the drums. Reminds me of the Rubin sound of 88-90, Slayer, Danzig, Wolfsbane, etc.

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.

I went and bought the OST to Side Show and the new Dragonforce instead.

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.

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 :(

I actually like "The Unforgiven III," but they really should have called it something else.

Yea, like "Creep" by Stone Temple Pilots....

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.

my friend burned me a copy, can't imagine I'll play it much. James sounds like shit vocally.

I like how our expectations have been lowered so much that Metallica putting out a totally decent album is considered a triumph.

It was a brilliant idea. Metallica did it on purpose.

why else did they let their psychologist write lyrics

Let me say first that I wanted this album to be good like everybody else -- but this guitar tone is the aural equivalent of baby shit. A passionless, going-through-the-motions imitation of MOP is about last on a list of 7 million albums I'd like to hear in my life. In what world is this a decent album? Invisible Oranges cat had it 100% when he said the press needed to STFU in the runup to the release of this, too. Saw Carcass and Suffocation over the weekend and the venue played this through the PA between bands -- it cramped everyone's style so bad you could smell it; it was even more embarrassing juxtaposed with a bunch of middle aged guys who can still fuckin tear it up like those bands can.

Yes, metallica once ruled the world, but that doesn't mean we gotta suffer any more of this shittin' in our mouths and callin' it a sundae.

people who should go ahead and quit: a list thread

FINALLY someone who doesn't like the album!

Don't know about you, BJO, but I've seen a ton of "surprisingly unshit", "kinda hot!", and "decent" on here.

An embarrassing amount of, I mean.

Based on the several tracks I've heard, I thought it was alright. Definitely not as good as the early stuff, but okay. I think the most obvious weakness is James' lyrics, which seem more and more forced and juvenile as time goes by. The music also has a forced quality to it, but less so than the last album for sure. I also wish they'd turned up the bass. Need to listen to it more, I suppose.