New Metallica album actually not so bad..

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I gave it a first listen last night. I must say I'm so far pleasantly surprised.

And that comes from someone who has hated everything they released after 1988.

Looks like this time they are FINALLY getting somewhat back in to their good ol' style from the 80's. More speed. More trash. More Metal.

What do you guys think?

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you're joking right?

You're probably one of those kids who heard metallica was cool and rushed out to buy reload.

I heard the entirety of the new album on xm the night before it released and I genuinely had an open mind about it. At this point though nothing confuses and angers me more than a kirk hammett fingertap solo which happens every damn song for a full minute as per the Metallica song formula. Every band is entitled to a bad album (points at disturbed and offspring) but metallica has been long over. They're dead.
 
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I've seen Metalica live over 10 times, the last time was about 10 years ago and I ended up leaving half way through. They are a bunch of sellout assholes and I wouldn't even waste the bandwidth to steal anything of theres any more.
 
Urghs...
I hated Reload and St. Anger was a piece of crap.

Like the new album though. <shrug>

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The album is DEFINITELY better then St Anger. Its not one of their best but its tolerable. I love the chorus in that one song "all nightmare long."
 
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you're joking right?
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Not joking, no. :)

Deliguy said:
You're probably one of those kids who heard metallica was cool and rushed out to buy reload.
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Lol... you couldn't be further from the truth.
I was a kid when I STOPPED liking what Metallica released. That was in 1991 when I was 18. The Black Album ruined it all for me and I still don't like it to this day.

Then, Load, Reload, and St. Anger were all pieces of shit.

Deliguy said:
I heard the entirety of the new album on xm the night before it released and I genuinely had an open mind about it. At this point though nothing confuses and angers me more than a kirk hammett fingertap solo which happens every damn song for a full minute as per the Metallica song formula. Every band is entitled to a bad album (points at disturbed and offspring) but metallica has been long over. They're dead.
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I have written posts here before on my thoughts on Metallica and as far as them being sellouts, my opinion hasn't changed.

In short, I still think their first 4 albums were/are masterpieces of true heavy metal:
1983 Kill 'Em All
1984 Ride the Lightning
1986 Master of Puppets
1988 ...And Justice for All

Sure, Hetfield's voice on the first album sounded like a 13-year old kid undergoing puberty, but they kicked ass from the get go. Master... and Justice.. are jam-packed with metal anthems, awesome riffs and some classic solos.

But in 1991 they sold out to MTV and mainstream and died.

However, if you listen to their new Death Magnetic, you can for the first time in years hear traces of the kind of music they started with originally. Listen to "The Day That Never Comes" at 04:55. Listen to "My Apocalypse" and "All Nightmare Long". What I'm saying is - there are tracks here showing signs of hope. And already better than the crap they've spewed out for the past 20 years or so. Yeah, there are still some radio-friendly/chick-friendly/MTV-friendly songs on there but let's face it - Metallica will never ever go back to being a 100% trash/speed-metal band anyway. This is as close as they will come to their original self.
 
Metallica will never ever go back to being a 100% trash/speed-metal band anyway. This is as close as they will come to their original self.
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This is not about metallica, its about mindframe: You do know that whoever does not evolve, simply becomes extinct, right?
 
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However, if you listen to their new Death Magnetic, you can for the first time in years hear traces of the kind of music they started with originally. Listen to "The Day That Never Comes" at 04:55. Listen to "My Apocalypse" and "All Nightmare Long". What I'm saying is - there are tracks here showing signs of hope. And already better than the crap they've spewed out for the past 20 years or so. Yeah, there are still some radio-friendly/chick-friendly/MTV-friendly songs on there but let's face it - Metallica will never ever go back to being a 100% trash/speed-metal band anyway. This is as close as they will come to their original self.
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The question is, why bother trying to like the bunch of self deluded sell out wankers at all? Yes, the albums you mentioned are awesome but it was time to move on over a decade ago. There are plenty of decent bands about without having to make the effort of listening to those cocksuckers ever again.
 
Me? I haven't forget napster.


sellout punks

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I wanted to like the album, it sounds like they are starting to move back to their old sounds, but it just doesn't have anything that brings you in like their old songs did. Nothing makes me want to continue listening, it's like the songs have no life. Just lots of bullshit thrash riffs that don't work together or create moods. Like there's not one chorus on the album that I can get excited over.

They have a few songs that sound alright but overall it's another over-rated Metallica album. And I'm really pissed they screwed up Unforgiven III considering #1 killed it and even #2 was awesome and that was on Reload.

In short, eat shit Metallica.
 
The only song I liked in this album is "The Day that Never Comes". /back to listening to 2008 Sensation White recordings.

PS: FU Emp for talking me into listening to this album. :P
 
LOL

Funny how people's mindset seems to work.
I always liked Metallica BECAUSE they changed their stuff every album.

I even got around to liking the dreaded Black album and I enjoy Load, although only a few songs.

Reload and St.Anger were not for me, but the new album has some good stuff on it.
Could it be better? Maybe.
Is it good? For me, YES.

"All nightmare long" is fine, I love "The day that never comes" and I will give the disc some more time to grow on me.

People - remember how long it took most people to like ".. and Justice for All"?
Took me a few months to get into that one.

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If anyone wants to hear how Metallica SHOULD have evolved, download the Trivium Album Ascendancy. If Metallica put this album out rather then Trivium, they would be Gods.
 
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When it comes to Metallica, I have despised the band since the Black Album and never thought they were even able to create or play songs like the ones they used to make after that.

I never said the latest album is awesome or worth buying. I was trying to say that some of the songs show traces of their roots. Do the riffs lack melody, tone, and mood? Maybe. But I'm with emp here - with a few more listens, I think I will come to enjoy the faster tracks on the album.

@narsticle: +rep for suggesting Trivium. I had never heard of them but checked out some songs now and yes - they certainly kick ass.

Dream Theater are still the gods of metal in my eyes, although they don't play 100% raw metal all the time. It took me years to even like them. I actually couldn't stand Dream Theater at first. To the "untrained ear" they may sound like a bunch of technical geeks who do nothing but show off their skills. But that is far from the truth. Dream Theater are mood-capturing, inspirational, impressive, stunning, musical Gods. And their album "Images And Words" is musical metal perfection.

Whoa.. I just hijacked my own thread, Lol.
 
I LOL'd when Jethro Tull beat them out of the first ever heavy metal Grammy.

LOL+ at Metallica even doing a cover of Tull's Cross-Eyed Mary FTW!

I must admit, when Master of Puppets came out, they were a refreshing alternative to all the glam rock of the late eighties. However, who wasn't listening to Iron Maiden, Judas Priest and um, Slayer?
 
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