Metallica - Death Magnetic
 

So the title for the new Metallica album has finally been announced, "Death Magnetic," which quite frankly is a naff title, but less so than "St. Anger."
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With the album set to be released in September, what are your thoughts/hopes/fears for the album?

Hopefully they will produce something decent for the first time in over 10 years, even with the master of bland, Rick Rubin. It can only get better after St Anger.

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dont care. havent done anything good in almost 20 years so i dont suppose this is going to break the trend.

The horrible title isn't really filling me with confidence.

My hopes are that we have a Metallica album that can be labelled a classic. Black album was ok but I regard And Justice For All the last amazing album Metallica made. Would like the songs to be a bit more harder and some ace guitar solos.

My fears are that we will have another bland album due to Metallica having their heads up their arse. The album will maybe have a few good songs but nothing more. The band have the ability to write amazing music (first four albums) but for some reason prefer this shitty style.

I hope it gets leaked on the internet tommorow and Lars head pops off.

Awesome

Know whats ironic? Even if this album does suck, alot of people will still say Metallica is the shit because of how awesome they were back in the day.

I wouldnt judge a book by its cover or name, so this obviously could be a good album. If this sounds like their oldder stuff, then it would be swell. At least the name of the album isnt like "Rainbow Stripes" or something like that.

Metallica will always be "the shit"

Listening to the radio, they were talking about how the people who heard this are saying it sounds along the lines of Master of Puppets/and Justice for All..

That's good enough for me.

I just like to hear new material. If anything, they'll have one or two songs that'll trump entire records of other bands. That's what I count on.

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Well said man, well said. :yes:

people always say shit like this about new cds and it rarely holds true. so i'm not holding my breath.

He's just mad because his band Guns N Faggots aren't as great as Tallica.

Guns N Roes will forever be greater than Metallica. One of the reasons being is that Axl has yet to release multiple cds that shit on their legacy. 1 cd 12 years in the making is better than 3 or 4 cds that make people go "Dear god, just fucking stop."

Sounds okay to me. The problem with bands like Metallica is that everyone wants to hear Master of Puppets again. Get with it people. That was released 20 years ago. This is a band that has aged and matured. St. Anger how it's moments. So this one should have to.

This album will likely get bad reviews for two reasons. 1. Everyone expects MOP again. 2. Thus far I've read very good things about the songs on this album, therefore everyone will be expecting "old" Metallica and will instantly be let down.

Myself, I'm looking forward to a good heavy metal album. Regardless if it's Metallica 1988 or Metallica 2008.

\m/ \m/

I'm looking foward to it as well, and as long as they are over their St Anger phase it might be ok. I don't want Puppets again, we've had Puppets.


Let's be serious, St Anger didn't have any moments

I like both, so I am indifferent, and I didnt actually neg him.


I could not agree more sadly.


True dat turd dat


Dirty Window, and The Unnamed feeling? still 2 songs cant save an album.

NEVER! :foc:

And Some Kind of Monster

I'm dissapointed. :(

Metallica sucks, however Jenny Lewis :love:

:y:

Also, the trash can lid thing is in the past. Lars is back to using a proper drum sound.

I think the last Metallica album I didn't hate was Load. I didn't love it, but I didn't hate it. It doesn't help that Metallica hasn't aged well with me either though.

Hahaah true, Though i imagine there's a few more complicated reasons as to why the album hasn't been released yet.

And DM, i'm not mad at all, cause i know GnR will always be better. :y::yes:

Not going to lie, I liked Load and Reload.

The title? That's pretty silly. :lol:

:y:

I put them slightly lower then cockroaches.

Yeh DM but you like shit music.

NOT

Oh snap!

Just go dl "The Ecstasy of Gold" if you want to hear what the new album will soun like. They released it about a year ago as a "teaser" to the album. It's from their S&M album but only the orchestra was playing on that track so during the recording of this album they recorded their version.

I'd give a link but I'm on my cell phone :-(

Metallica may have "matured" but the quality of their songs and albums has dropped big time. With Load, Reload and St Anger there were only 3 songs on each album that I liked. The rest of the album was garbage with bland boring shitty songs.

Puppets is held in high regard because every song on it is amazing. Kill Em All, Ride The Lighting and Justice all were excellent albums with very few bad tracks on them. These albums are timeless and the reason why people still love Metallica to this day.

The new album doesn't need to sound like the old stuff, it just needs to sound good with the majority of the songs being excellent. I hope this is the case and Death Magnetic can be regarded one of Metallica's best albums.

Firstly, I like every Metallica album (St. Anger not as much).

But I'm tired of the argument of Load and Reload being bland boring songs when you listen to the old albums half the songs on each album sound very very similar. Battery and Master of Puppets anyone? I dont' know why everybody is all "Their last 3 albums suck but Justice rules." Yes, Justice was great but the first 5 songs all sound somewhat the same.

BTW. I obvoiusly dont' know technical musical terms so its hard to elaborate on when and where other than, listen to that song, then listen to this song and they're similar.

I dont really see how that's valid. The fact that they recorded Ecstasy of Gold from this album has little bearing on what their new album will sound like as they did it a few years ago on S&M and it is also a song composed by Ennio Morricone for The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.

They did not play it on S&M.

Only the orchestra played it on S&M.

Yes I know it is from The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly but they have recorded their cover of it.

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Will that be on the new album? Coz that was really cool.

I've been checking out http://www.missionmetallica.com lately. They have a few vids of the recording process and some short clips of them recording. Sounds alright so far. I just wish they would release a fucking single already. One should be out by July early August if it's a September album release.

There's a few clips of the new album here:

http://www.missionmetallica.com/

Once it's loaded wait for the song clip to play for a second, then click on "Mission: Metallica" on the right hand side (next to the screen).

Pretty awesome. The "Suicide, I've already died" and the "Bow down, sell your soul to me" bits sound fucking killer.

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Also, Hetfields vocals have improved since St. Anger which is good.

Thats the Ecstacy of Gold. THe name of that song. That songs been out for a while.......

Oh yeah?

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Yo FA you need to download that Metallica at Rock AM Ring 2008 I put in the Metallica group. It's a full 2 hr set. Kickass

So have we all downloaded "The Day That Never Comes"? The new single that was released yesterday?

im listening to the new track now....

I never thought I would really say what im about to say....

Everything about the song is awesome EXCEPT for Hetfields voice.

His voice sticks out badly and just doesnt work with the song for me. The song kinda feels like they were trying to go for a "Nothing Else Matters" vibe but hs voice just seems like its changed so much.

kinda agree with you. His voice just doesn't suit this song at all. Bar that, the song is amazing.

Not bad not bad. Cyanide seems pretty good and The Day That Never Comes is alright. I think this will be a pretty good album.

Also I think Hetfields voice has definitely improved after his vocals on St. Anger.

Tyler BLack likes the new single. Therefor it must be awesome.

I wanna hear Unforgiven 3. I like the first two and like how the words of 2 go....im curious to see how they fit the number 3 in the song like they did 2.

You'll be Unforgiven three times

YOU SON OF A BITCH!! YOUR DEAD TO ME YOU HEAR??!?! DEAD!!! YOU PACK YOUR SHIT AND MOVE OUT!!

IM DISOWNING YOU!!!!!!!


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I just heard the new single today. I am what you would call a "casual Metallica fan" but it's the best thing they've done in a long time...except for the vocals/lyrics. They should really take a "less is more" approach to that from now on. But everything else, especially the drumming was pretty great.

I didn't really like the first minute or two of the song, but it builds and builds and gets better and better.

I for what am not saying they aren't awful, I am holding out hope for something better.

:y:

:cool:

:mad:

mad love

angry sex ftw

:naughty:

A second song is on Metallica.com

Hetfeild's voice isn't as annoying in this song.

Hetfield's voice is never annoying. :foc:

When how he's singing doesn't suit the song, it can be. Can't wait till Sepetmber 12th.

The new song, The Day That Never Comes, I really don't listen to Hefield's voice because the guitar work is so beautiful/mellow in the beginning and then it just goes into a crazy solo during the end. That's worth listening to by itself.

But Hetfields voice is pretty good during it, no complaints.

Probably the best song I've heard all year.

CHeeseballs.

Just listened to 'My Apocalypse' from the new album. The guitar work sounds almost straight out of Ride the Lightning, has a great old-school thrash feel. Hetfield's vocals seem a little out of place now that he sounds so different from how he did back in the day, but it's still a pretty kickass song. I'll bet it'd be amazing live.

'The Day That Never Comes' is unbelievably good, too. I cannot wait for this album.

The only shocker so far is that I actually somewhat enjoy The Day That Never Comes. Not a fan of the other stuff though.

Well it's a start, anyway Req. :y:

I dunno.. 1 out of 3 isn't spectacular or anything.

Review up at rollingstone.

http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/...death_magnetic

Sounds promising.

Glad I pre-ordered. It would be awesome if I got it before the 12th.

I will say this for Metallica:

It's fucking sad that guitarist with the talent that Kirk Hammett has is stuck with hacks like Hetfield and Lars.

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David you listen to Evansence, you are hardly one to comment :p

Nah, it's true. Kirk Hammett has talent, and is wasting it on Metallica.

:foc:

Yeah, Metallica must suck. Selling millions of records and selling out stadiums is a sign of Crappy music.

Britney Spears sold millions of records and sold out concerts too. She must be amazing.

She obviously did something right.