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.
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Sunday, 3 August 2008 20:53 (fifteen years ago) link
I think the enthusiasm you're looking for was mostly gone after Cliff died, to be honest.
― J0hn D., Monday, 4 August 2008 00:27 (fifteen years ago) link
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! :)
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Monday, 4 August 2008 00:54 (fifteen years ago) link
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!
― res, Monday, 4 August 2008 01:07 (fifteen years ago) link
The band you love is dead! Stop trying to dig them up!
― Nate Carson, Monday, 4 August 2008 03:09 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.metallicaworld.co.uk/images/tattoos/metallica_back.jpg
― stephen, Monday, 4 August 2008 03:16 (fifteen years ago) link
I have. I don't plan on buying this monstrosity at all.
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Monday, 4 August 2008 03:21 (fifteen years ago) link
i bet that tattoo looked better before that dude got lovehandles
― res, Monday, 4 August 2008 16:28 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― res, Monday, 4 August 2008 17:05 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― A. Begrand, Sunday, 10 August 2008 08:23 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 10 August 2008 13:05 (fifteen years ago) link
an animated series with Hetfield and company masquerading as costumed superheroes after nightfall....
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Sunday, 10 August 2008 20:17 (fifteen years ago) link
New song posted here:
http://www.metallica.com/index.asp?item=601119
It's pretty good!
― Jeff Treppel, Friday, 22 August 2008 23:11 (fifteen years ago) link
I think the new song's awful. A weak rehashing of the classic era with zero passion.
― chap, Saturday, 23 August 2008 14:52 (fifteen years ago) link
drums are mixed way too high
― i, grey, Saturday, 23 August 2008 18:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Song's not perfect, there's a little "One" rip-off that sticks out, but other than that I kind of like it.
― A. Begrand, Saturday, 23 August 2008 19:01 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― J0hn D., Saturday, 23 August 2008 19:30 (fifteen years ago) link
I wonder what song was in Lars' headphones when he recorded this one?
― Nate Carson, Saturday, 23 August 2008 20:54 (fifteen years ago) link
another new song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAT_Tt_EZM0
― M@tt He1ges0n, Friday, 29 August 2008 16:38 (fifteen years ago) link
damn this is kinda fuckin' hot!
― M@tt He1ges0n, Friday, 29 August 2008 16:50 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― M@tt He1ges0n, Friday, 29 August 2008 16:55 (fifteen years ago) link
Ok, that one's surprisingly unshit.
― chap, Friday, 29 August 2008 16:57 (fifteen years ago) link
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