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

although sometimes i fall for their bullshit santana meets mr bungle with an emo singer bullshit!

you know what i just thought of for the first time in a long time...how WEIRD AS FUCK it was that marianne faithful did a cameo appearance on a METALLICA record. you can't make this shit up!

Metallica, hey, if they're enjoying the music they're making now, so be it. I'm not. But to John D's original point, the first four albums were classic (and hell, I still enjoy the Black Album from a

But Metallica seems to be more interested now in putting on a facade of "being heavy" and "returning to roots" that for a lot of their sheep-ish fanbase, it doesn't matter that they actually aren't.

I'll give it a fair listen, just as I did St. Anger, but I hated that album. I could ignore the cringe-inducing lyrics ("My lifestyle determines my deathstyle"), but the music was just bad, other than the title track and "Dirty Window".

Part of me thinks that, lame or not, they probably enjoyed making the Loads more than what they're making now.

Part of me thinks that, lame or not, they probably enjoyed making the Loads more than what they're making now.

OTM

http://www.metallica.com/images/extras/DM_cover_600.jpg

vagina grave

how WEIRD AS FUCK it was that marianne faithful did a cameo appearance on a METALLICA record. you can't make this shit up!

I dunno, I mean Marianna Faithfull did an appearance on an Oxbow record too...she seems available for fucked up shit of all stripes.

Metallica not making Black Album-style pop metal is pretty useless these days.

WOW that cover is vag city.

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I just hope they deleted everything Torben didn't like.

Metallica should take it one further and make the new album ONLY available on Guitar Hero....

if you fuck up a few notes here and there, it'll sound the way its supposed to

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looks like ulrich and hammett decided to really embrace their feminine side for this album

! Cloven hooves!
Maybe this will be alright after all.

I went on Youtube yesterday and watched the live clip where they play "their new song".

it was hideous. I hope it's not really going on the new album. sounded like St. Anger redux.

oh yeah, what did you expect? master of puppets redux?

Trujillo looks like an action figure in that shot.

It has to happen some time right? I mean, every ageing band goes through the phase at least once. That moment where they all sit down and decide to 'go back to basics'. Proper speed metal. Six minute songs. Acoustic guitars in the intro, heavy opening riff, launch into the first verse with another palm-muted stomper. Epic twin leads. Badass, larger than life lyrics about death, fuck your personal issues.

We know you've grown as a band as well as individually, you're not sixteen anymore, it's all fine we won't think anything worse of you.

oh yeah, what did you expect? master of puppets redux?

No, but that's never been what I wanted. Hell, they couldn't even pull it off competently if they wanted to now, with the way James sings.

But it feels to me like the St. Anger type stuff is not the music they wanted to make, but that they made it in order to sell their more gullible fans that they'd gone back to basics and are making 'harder' music again.

Load and Reload may both suck, but at least they sounded somewhat enthused about it.

I think the enthusiasm you're looking for was mostly gone after Cliff died, to be honest.

I just want something that's listenable! Megadeth's recent output might be generic, boring, and not something I want to listen to more than once, but it's at least listenable! :)

I would buy instrumental versions of every Metallica album since Justice... if they were available.

The Apocalyptica covers Metallica for 4 cellos is very good, in my opinion. Check it out!

The band you love is dead! Stop trying to dig them up!

http://www.metallicaworld.co.uk/images/tattoos/metallica_back.jpg

I have. I don't plan on buying this monstrosity at all.

i bet that tattoo looked better before that dude got lovehandles

humanizing James Hetfield interview on NPR's Fresh Air:

http://www.npr.org/templates/player/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=14023112&m=14023108

Crummy footage of "Cyanide" played tonight:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5rFjCR9NeI

Too garbled to make much of it, but there are some promising moments, like Lars stepping out of the lazy groove he's been doing for the past decade, and some welcome dual harmonies, nawobbum style.

x-post The reason Rubin wanted to work with Cash in the first place was to rescue a living legend from the dinner theater circuit. Mission accomplished. I do agree that had it stopped after "Unchained" (the rare sequel better than the original) there'd be less debate, but I just can't argue with the presence of more Cash rather than less.

As for Metallica, the best route would have been a reality series after the movie. Or a sitcom, a la "The Monkees." But too late for that, I guess.

an animated series with Hetfield and company masquerading as costumed superheroes after nightfall....

New song posted here:

http://www.metallica.com/index.asp?item=601119

It's pretty good!

I think the new song's awful. A weak rehashing of the classic era with zero passion.

drums are mixed way too high

Song's not perfect, there's a little "One" rip-off that sticks out, but other than that I kind of like it.

It's all right, but the vocals are terrible. This kind of can't be fixed; the only way to make Hetfield's singing sound good is to under-record it, and dude's been around long enough now to not stand for that.

I wonder what song was in Lars' headphones when he recorded this one?

another new song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAT_Tt_EZM0

damn this is kinda fuckin' hot!

more bark, less "singing"!

thrashiest thing they've done since..jeez...blackened?

lyrics have some lo_Ol moments but hell it's a new metallica song.

hard to tell from shitty youtube but sounds like rubin records on fuckin' macbook with the cheap protools or something.

Ok, that one's surprisingly unshit.

wow @ fake metallicas: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WX04ktKI9SY

Maditory (sic) actually do a better 80s Metallica impression than 00s Metallica do from the sound of that.

anyone else think My Apocalypse sounds really Slayer-ish at times?

NYT write-up on it.

I would like a "My Apocolypse" ringtone.

not half-bad. okay, maybe a quarter bad.

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.