Heres the album condensed, free of charge. (take THAT Lars.)

Drums: OOM PAH OOM PAH OOM PAH OOM PAH OOM PAH OOM PAH OOM PAH OOM PAH OOM PAH.

Guitar: BAH BAH JUG JUG JUG JUG BAH BAH JUG JUG JUG JUG JUGJUGJUG OODLEDEEO OODLEDEEO WREAW WREAW WAAAH.

Bass: DOODIGGADODOODIGGADODOODIGGADO

Vocals: *insert alt rock vocals here*

Loom Pah Doom Pah Dee Do!

Wow, you have certainly nailed it! They sold half a million in 3 days, how did your "condensed version" do? LOL

Isn't Hannah Montana on...get the Tivo set up, quick!

15 steps is a snarky show off. we mostly ignore him.

No. Lot's of people don't like The Wall and I will ignore the 'Supposed Fan' line and point you in this direction:

http://www.musicbanter.com/editors-p...-reviewed.html

You have only posted about Metallica thus far. It would be interesting to hear your views on other bands and genres and get a sense of what you are into.

Who ISN'T? ;)

I see I still have much to learn :D.

Lets ignore the fact that someone is criticizing the banality of an album that you think is the greatest thing since The Beatles, and instead focus on the fact that this poster is younger than someone who was around when Metallica were considered a good thrash band, and then hyperbolize the fact that he's relativley (sp) young by accusing him of taking part in many fads affecting small girls 10-15 years younger than him to take the heat off the fact that you cant argue with someone who has a legitimate gripe about an album since its a matter of opinion after all, and his opinion is no better or worse than anyone else who's heard the album, whether they're 15 or 75.


Although I will say your passionate defense of this album is very well written, its a shame you had to make personal attacks on someone who was simply criticizing a Metallica album, rather than accepting the fact that alot of people think it sucks. Are you Lars Ulrich?

I'm pretty sure I'm in love with you now.

Excellent post. Kudos to you sir.

Just because an album sells well, doesnt mean it's a quality album.

And could you please find a more original way to insult me than the whole, "Oh this kid is less than 17 years of age, therefore, must be a giant Jonas Brothers/Hannah Montana fan"
Also, give me 10 legitimate reasons why this album is superior to any other hard rock album released in the past five years.































now run back to the couch before you miss reruns of M*A*S*H.

Alright, here's 10 good reasons for you:

1. That Was Just Your Life
2. The End Of The Line
3. Broken, Beat and Scarred
4. The Day That Never Comes
5. All Nightmare Long
6. Cyanide
7. The Unforgiven III
8. The Judas Kiss
9. Suicide and Redemption
10. My Apocalypse

:D

(Although admittedly, some of the tracks are just meh to me, like Cyanide and The Judas Kiss. They just didn't stand out very much to me compared to the rest of the album.)

Bob Rock killed the real Metallica

A tour bus crash in Sweden killed the real Metallica

qft

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What does qft mean?

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Unforgiven III is the best off the album IMO

qtf= Quoted for truth.

You just don't ban the instantly recognizable posters over trivial nonsense.

Yeah, I'd greatly appreciate a link to that.
I'm close to using the retail version as a shooting ski.




Edit: The MeltingPot dude is acting like an arse in my opinion.

I've probably defended Metallica more than you have, but I am not going to sit here and ignore the flaws on Death Magnetic.
The music is genius, the production is utter crap. You don't have to be a sound technician to hear the problems on this album.

And I AM a sound tech, so it DEFINATELY does not sit well with me.
I am by NO means a pro, but I could have mixed this album better myself.
For one, I wouldn't have compressed the piss out of it and killed the dynamics of the music.

Alot of the riffs are influenced by very old ones. Most of these riffs are ideas they had from 2006 - onward.

I haven't given it a full listen yet, but I was just listening some of the tracks with my flatmate who loves Metallica.

After hearing The Day That Never Comes a couple of weeks ago, I didn't have particularly high hopes. Especially after that embarrassing section starting at 5 mins with the gimmicky riffs.

After listening to a few more tracks, they seem ok and definitely superior to St Anger, but nothing great. My problem is that a lot of it seems predictable and pedestrian. Especially the parts where they take one riff, repeat it and then add a variation for the third and fourth rounds... and that variation seems to be either switching 2 notes around, moving it down/up a bit, adding a second guitar playing the same riff, or playing it with two and taking one away. And I won't even start on the production... coupled with Lars' drumming, it makes it sound like a workout session.

I'll give it a full listen sometime - maybe it'll grow on me. I look forward to hearing the Unforgiven III.

i've not listened to this yet, only watched all the 'Later...with Jools Holland' performances broadcast in the UK the other week.

I was initially impressed to see the solos and progressions back in force (it was an insane performance and as tight as you'd expect, especially in the context of the other bands on that show), but as Seltzer implies they haven't quite shaken some of the bad habits picked up from St.Anger, or indeed their meanderings from the 'classic' sound throughout the 90's (the Black Album onwards - most of this left me cold).

Still I'm gonna cop it, for 'Cyanide' at least :D

i do like the album because of the influence they put in from their earlier stuff. like the "Ride the Lighting" album, Death Magnetic comes from those earlier albums. I think it does need some improvement but the riffs and guitar solos are definately a good sign.

Don't look forward to The Unforgiven III.......it's alright, but it's horrible in comparison to the other two.
James pretty much killed the song with the lyrics.

"How can I be lost - If I got nowhere to go?" <----totally makes no sense.

How..?
"How can I BE LOST, if I've got nowhere to go."

Might make some sense if he said get lost, instead of be.

It doesn't make much sense either way. You can be completely oblivious to your surroundings and not know where you are even if you lack a direction in which you're supposed to be going.

Eh. I'm always critical of lyrics.
Thrash or not, that has nothing to do with the matter. Simply because it's thrash, doesn't mean people should ignore the lyrics.
I'm not being a prick, I just know James Hetfield is capable of a hell of alot more than that.

I skimmed through the album a few nights ago with my brother, who thinks it is completely awesome. It's definitely better than St. Anger from what I heard. And it might just be me, but does it seem like James Hetfield's vocals are lacking? They just seem weak. I don't know how else to describe it.
It's obvious they are trying to get back to their glory days, but it's just not there, IMO.

His vocals over the last few years haven't been as great as they were in the 80's and 90's......may be due to stage wear and aging, but I don't think he's intentionally trying to hold anything back. I miss some of the power he had in the 90's, it's especially noticeable on the S&M album....

Death Magnetic
 

Ok, so the other day i bought Death Magnetic. And although it beat St. Anger it was still pretty ****...

What do you think??

I think your post belongs here.

A little off subject, but the last post reminded me of how much I liked the S&M album because it was the only Metallica album we could listen to on road trips and stuff as a family. My mom would put "For Whom the Bell Tolls" on repeat. It was weird, but completely awesome too! lol. It brings back good memories.

^lol. and Hetfield has lost his fire for a while now...'ain't my bitch-ah!'

im thinking its like a metaphor mayhaps ya i have no clue. but who's to say Hetfield WILL get lost. than we'll see how much the lyrics make sense.

its better than something like...
"How can i not be not lost, if i've got not nowhere to not go"
now that makes no sense

/agree

At first glance, I thought it was okay, but I went back and listened to a few tracks, and they fucking sucked. Even if they brought the sound back to '91, Rick Rubin sure fucked it up.

Death Magnetic is great album^^, I love it!It's better then St.Anger!

They didn't set the bar very high with St. Anger. Maybe that was their plan - make one of the worst albums ever made, so that for everything they make afterwards, people will say "at least its not St. Anger." And then they sell millions of copies.

Death Magnetic is pretty good overall. All Nightmare Long and Judas Kiss are awesome, and they have some of the best choruses in any Metallica song.