Death Magnetic

I don't speak for this forum, but how some metallers saw AMOLAD at the time elsewhere

for example rateyourmusic.com there was a lot of that were accusing AMOLAD for being oddly long
the few bad reviews here and there in music mags, the same thing
as long as Don Kaye's review in Blabbermouth (5.5 /10)
and let's don't forget that interview from a spanish magazine in maidenfans.com

also after some personal discussions with metalheads (but not maidenfans) in the "real life"
they were accusing AMOLAD for the same thing as Kaye did : odd length & repetitively slow intros -outros

but no, in this forum I don't remember bad critics for this (very good) album  :)
 
The single reminds me of
One as in that it has a slow, melancholy intro and then it speeds up.  Some of the riffing at the end reminds me of Megadeth's Rust in Peace album.
 
The Day That Never Comes - Live version (professionally filmed) at Leeds Festival: Click

The vocals are in my ears too different from the 80s or the Black Album to find similarities. Also the song features a lot of repetition, esp. in the beginning. The same chord scheme is going on for minutes. After that it turns into a medley of older work, with indeed some Maidenish harmonies which keeps it fresh. This 2nd (fast) part I like the most, though the drums are messy.

I'm a curious about other songs.
 
I gave in and listened to the songs we have so far, and I like The Day that Never Comes more than Cyanide.  While not up there with the quadrupology (I guess that's not a word...) of Fade to Black, Sanitarium, One, and The Unforgiven (I guess it's a trilogy really but I like to include The Unforgiven), it is a pretty good ballad and good enough to get my hopes up for this album.  Sure, James's singing is different nowadays than it was in the 80s, but it's still listenable and didn't bother me except at the very beginning.  However, I thought most of the instrumental sounded out of place and "tacked on" instead of being a natural part of the song. 

Cyanide is ok, it reminds me of the Black Album mixed with some of the better parts of Load and some of the progressiveness of ...And Justice thrown in.

Looking forward to this now. :)
 
Is it just me, or does the first couple of minutes of "The Day That Never Comes" sound EXACTLY like "Ghost of Freedom" by Iced Earth?

Except of course, without an amazing drummer and singer.
 
Another new song has been posted on the band's official homepage: My Apocalypse.

I like this song a lot from the first listen.  Good, honest thrash metal with a good riff and even James's vocals do not suck.  In fact, around the 2:10 mark I am reminded a lot of Tom Araya of Slayer, which I think is no accident.  This is followed by a nice fast solo.  I wanted to hear whether Metallica could still do fast thrash rockers and I think this shows that they indeed can.
 
Invader said:
Another new song has been posted on the band's official homepage: My Apocalypse.

I like this song a lot from the first listen.  Good, honest thrash metal with a good riff and even James's vocals do not suck.  In fact, around the 2:10 mark I am reminded a lot of Tom Araya of Slayer, which I think is no accident.  This is followed by a nice fast solo.  I wanted to hear whether Metallica could still do fast thrash rockers and I think this shows that they indeed can.
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new song ? Tom Araya ?? I'm there !
WOW  :)
 
The Culture Show on the Beeb had Metallica on it this week, so I recorded it. I thought it may give some talk and music from the new album but it was simply an interview with Hetfield and Ulrich. Most of the live footage on this show happened to be from Cliff 'em All and only one or two snippets from a show in Norway they did recenlty. And nothing really came out of the interview that we did not already know, but that said - it was an OK show (and there is some good clips of the band rehearsing).

There was the odd bit that made me laugh though:

Hetfield: Rob and Kirk are happy to take the back seat while Lars and I fight over the steering wheel.

Hetfield: Always want to be the first, want to be - were going to play there first - ohh! Iron Maiden beat us.

Ulrich: (of his first Deep Purple concert) There was a lot of people getting of on this kind of shared experience between the band and the audience, and there was something that just kind of......sucked you in. (remember that girl in the beginning of Spinal Tap :D)



I have a recording of this, if anyone is interested. It's a 300mb .divx
 
All you XM radio subscribers.....Channel 51 is now Mandatory Metallica and will play the full album on September 4th.
 
Lars Ulrich has commented on the premature release of the band's new album, "Death Magnetic", via a French record store. A shop in Paris reportedly sold a number of copies of the CD this morning well ahead of its official September 12 worldwide release date — with illegal "Death Magnetic" MP3 files making their way online by this afternoon.

During a guest appearance earlier today on "The Woody Show" on the San Francisco, California radio station Live 105 (KITS 105.3 FM), Ulrich stated about the French leak, "Listen, we're ten days from release. I mean, from here, we're golden. If this thing leaks all over the world today or tomorrow, happy days. Happy days. Trust me. Ten days out and it hasn't quote-unquote fallen off the truck yet? Everybody's happy. It's 2008 and it's part of how it is these days, so it's fine. We're happy."

Watch video footage of Ulrich's appearance on "The Woody Show" in two parts: here
 
Maybe he's changed his mind?[/naive]

Or it's just to get people to forget/forgive Napster?  Anyway, the album will sell so amazingly well that I'm not surprised even if they don't care about the issue.  No matter how much it will be spread on file-sharing networks, it will SELL.  And Metallica know this, that's why they're "happy". 
 
If you liked Load and Reload, you'll probably like Death Magnetic.

If you didn't care for those albums, don't bother.  To me, the first 1-3 songs are pretty good, Cyanide is terrible, and then the rest all sound alike.  So, no, I am not impressed, and if this is the best Metallica can do, then maybe they ought to retire.  I am sure lots of people will love it.  But it's a C- album from a band that was once A+.
 
You forget "C-" is quite the improvement from the "F" that was St. Anger :D They're getting back into it, I'm sure the one after this, IF there is one will be even better.
 
After listening to the so-far previewed songs (The Day that Never Comes, My Apocalypse, Cyanide) quite many times, I've come to realise that while they sound like old Metallica, they lack that something special which makes the first four Metallica albums some of the greatest of the 1980s.  They lack a soul maybe?  Technically, there seems to be nothing wrong with them; it's not St. Anger, and it's better than Load/Reload; this at least made me like it at first, and even now I still think they're good songs.  But, it lacks that something...  It sort of has the same spirit as the Black Album, I think, like they don't believe in themselves 100%.  The Day that Never Comes is a good ballad, but I can't relate to it emotionally in the same way as I could to Fade to Black, Sanitarium or One.  And while My Apocalypse has good riffs, it also seems to lack that something which makes other fast heavy Metallica songs like Battery or Whiplash memorable.

I think this is all because the band tried too hard to return to their roots, instead of writing new stuff that is actually good.  I will be buying the album because it's definitely not bad (better than Load/Reload/St. Anger, maybe on par with Black Album), but based on what I've heard so far, it won't join the first four albums in the hall of fame, at least for me.
 
Invader said:
After listening to the so-far previewed songs (The Day that Never Comes, My Apocalypse, Cyanide) quite many times, I've come to realise that while they sound like old Metallica, they lack that something special which makes the first four Metallica albums some of the greatest of the 1980s. 
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It is indeed missing that "something." The booze and pent up anger :p
 
Next year, Metallica will release Death Synthetic.
 
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