Metallica Death Magnet Review

[Iron Maiden]

[QUOTE=Rolling Stone]In the Eighties, thrash metal wasn't a scene, it was an arms race: riffs kept speeding up, drum kits got bigger. But with 1991's Black Album, Metallica opted for unilateral disarmament, slowing their tempos, shortening their songs and smelting their chugging guitars and piston-powered drums into armor-plated pop hooks. After that, the band rushed from one reinvention to another, starting with the Southern-rock infusion of 1996's Load and culminating in the muddled, bizarrely produced group-therapy session of 2003's St. Anger. No longer: Death Magnetic is the musical equivalent of Russia's invasion of Georgia

[MentaL]

[ShinigamiEvil]

I enjoyed the album, it has the old Metallica sound imo.. The only thing i would say was bad on it was James vocals =/ But still i enjoyed it and yeah all nightmare long was my favourite too :D

[KyleEnos]

Only problem with the album was the sound engineering; the master engineer fucked it up, royally. From what I've heard of both the LP and CD albums, everything's been compressed, sounds like shit at some parts. But upon listening to it with a friend when he played it on GH, I noticed it sounds a lot better.

Reserching into this I found out that the makers of GH were given a copy of the album before it went to the final master engineer, Ted Jensen.

[Iron Maiden]

I can't wait for the tour. I've seen em once before but I didn't really like the show they put on. So, it will be interesting to see this sort "reinvinted" Metallica.

[Retro!]

I hate how metallica never comes to vegas, :(
But still, They are an awesome band, I got them on like hella CD's and like almost every album,

[Neverending]

Yupp yupp St. Anger wasn't that much of a Metallica album though it was very successful last year. Death Magnetic is the way I love Metallica.

[DaCheat]

I dunno, they went back to their "roots," but a band like Metallica should have to do that. They need to be pushing forward like they always have been, to keep changing the industry. This album was just a safe goat to make more money.

[fuckstick]

...More proof, as if it were needed, that some bands just don't know when to quit making music.

[Iron Maiden]

...More proof, as if it were needed, that some bands just don't know when to quit making music.

I don't think you read the review...and even if you had, you still don't know what you're talking about.

[Stup]

got the album when it was released, listened to it, afew to many time, if there that saying can be used with Metallica :D

[nathan123]

I don't think you read the review...and even if you had, you still don't know what you're talking about.

Just because this review says the album is good, doesn't make it so. As a Metallica fan i feel hugely let down by this album, its just a collection of old song ideas that didnt make it before, stuck together and packaged as a new album. The Day That Never Comes sounds like a mashup song of lots of old metallica songs. From what I hear, Rick Rubin was hardly ever around and didn't really do much. Also, the master engineer messed the mix up really badly, with it clipping all over the place. Overall it's nice to see Metallica are still alive but should maybe stop writing new albums, or at least stop listening to what everyone is telling them, the best albums they made were before they even had a producer telling them what they should do (Kill 'Em All, Ride The Lightning, Master Of Puppets, AJFA).

[KyleEnos]

Just because this review says the album is good, doesn't make it so. As a Metallica fan i feel hugely let down by this album, its just a collection of old song ideas that didnt make it before, stuck together and packaged as a new album. The Day That Never Comes sounds like a mashup song of lots of old metallica songs. From what I hear, Rick Rubin was hardly ever around and didn't really do much. Also, the master engineer messed the mix up really badly, with it clipping all over the place. Overall it's nice to see Metallica are still alive but should maybe stop writing new albums, or at least stop listening to what everyone is telling them, the best albums they made were before they even had a producer telling them what they should do (Kill 'Em All, Ride The Lightning, Master Of Puppets, AJFA).

Basically the albums Mustaine was involved in.

[Iron Maiden]

Basically the albums Mustaine was involved in.

Actually Mustaine was kicked out before Kill em All. Thus Mustaine wasn't involved in it, Ride the Lightning, Master of Puppets or ...And Justice For All.

Just because this review says the album is good, doesn't make it so. As a Metallica fan i feel hugely let down by this album, its just a collection of old song ideas that didnt make it before, stuck together and packaged as a new album. The Day That Never Comes sounds like a mashup song of lots of old metallica songs. From what I hear, Rick Rubin was hardly ever around and didn't really do much. Also, the master engineer messed the mix up really badly, with it clipping all over the place. Overall it's nice to see Metallica are still alive but should maybe stop writing new albums, or at least stop listening to what everyone is telling them, the best albums they made were before they even had a producer telling them what they should do (Kill 'Em All, Ride The Lightning, Master Of Puppets, AJFA).

As for this. I whole heartedly agree on the fact that it was produced way too much and the sound engineer fucked it up...but you know, I kinda get tired of listening to a band that never changes. St. Anger was shit. Death Magnet is taking them in a new direction I think. Telling a band not to change is just plain stupid imo.

[KyleEnos]

Actually Mustaine was kicked out before Kill em All. Thus Mustaine wasn't involved in it, Ride the Lightning, Master of Puppets or ...And Justice For All.

During his short time in Metallica, Dave Mustaine toured with the band, co-wrote four songs which appeared on Kill Em All, and co-wrote two songs which would eventually appear on Ride the Lightning. Mustaine has also made unproven claims to have written "Leper Messiah" from the Master of Puppets album.[3] He also claims it was his idea to write and record a song featuring the children's prayer Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep featured in the songs Go To Hell and Enter Sandman. He also recorded several songs with the band including the No Life 'Till Leather demo tape. A few of the songs he wrote with Hetfield and Ulrich went on to be re-recorded by Megadeth. The most well-known of these is "The Four Horsemen" from Kill 'em All, which Mustaine wrote and later released on his debut album with the original lyrics as "Mechanix.

Ayye.

[Iron Maiden]

Ayye.

Unconfirmed claims. If you do the research, Metallica denies it to this day so there's actually no way of knowing.