Death Magnetic

Ha! They got 4s across the board it was ok until pitchfork decided to do their scale out of 10 instead of 5! :p
 
I read that Pitchfork article and it was the usual Metallica hate that the world is full of.  I'm still sceptical of this album but I'm anyway getting it tomorrow.
 
Invader, d/l first.  Listen closely.  If you like it/love it then purchase it.  If you don't care for it, then delete it.

P.S.  This message will self-destruct to keep Lars Ulrich from reading it.
 
Or what I did! I went to my local record store for a free listen before the midnight sale :D I have to say it is a GREAT album. As a whole it works really well and it doesn't sound as forced as I originally thought. My favorite part is how James says, "Apocalypse" :D "My A-Poca-lips" Really James? You have lips of Apoca? interesting :p
 
I took my own advice and have been listening to the tracks on Metallica.com.  You can tell they are trying to revisit their earlier sound.  I also wonder whether the "all-epic" nature of this album owes a debt to the precedent Iron Maiden set with AMOLAD.  Most of the tracks are interesting, and there are definitely some cool riffs in certain parts of certain songs.  I didn't think any the songs were truly inspired, though, with the exception of Suicide & Redemption, which is by far the best track, IMO (a 10-minute instrumental!).  EDIT:  On another listen, All Nightmare Long is pretty darn good, too. 
 
In an interview I read that Rubin told them to think back to their "Puppets" days and what drove them then, to write an album to impress a label enough to sign them. That could explain the nature and length of the tracks. As far as inspirations go I actually detected some Blue Oyster Cult in The Day That Never Comes, Fear The Reaper to be exact...
 
I bought it yesterday and have given it two listens so far.  I have to say that I quite honestly like it, even love it.  I don't really agree with the comments about James' singing, I find them mostly good.  He does have his weak moments, though, for example in the opening of The Day that Never Comes.  That song starts out really well but just as I'm getting into the mood James' voice kicks in and the whole thing comes down. :(  The Unforgiven III I really don't like that much, it's nowhere near the original (or even II) and already I want to skip it.  I actually quite like Cyanide, though.  I've heard some comments about bad production in other forums, but I don't really agree.  It sounds fine to my ears mostly.
The best parts of the album are All Nightmare Long (definitely my favourite from the album), The Judas Kiss, Suicide & Redemption, and My Apocalypse.  I agree even more now with __no5, though I only hear this in James' vocals.
 
cornfedhick said:
I took my own advice and have been listening to the tracks on Metallica.com.   
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Or do that.  :)

Had I more time, I'd have investigated that prior to my post.

@Invader: Glad you like the album.
 
@Invader, I am also glad you like the album (I have to hear it more to make a fair overall judgment myself).

But I hope you'll admit that the guitar solos are at times as messy/dirty as (or even more messy/dirty than) Janick's live solos. Check e.g. the first solo of "All Nightmare Long".

So I hope that Janick might rise a bit higher in your book, when we talk about this aspect. Especially if "All Nightmare Long" is your favorite track of the new Metallica album.
 
Forostar said:
So I hope that Janick might rise a bit higher in your book, when we talk about this aspect. Especially if "All Nightmare Long" is your favorite track of the new Metallica album.
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I think you probably mistake my opinions on Janick for someone else's, mate.  I've always liked Janick and I don't usually criticize him.  I personally don't mind Janick's solos, the only big exception was his Revelations solo which he screwed up pretty bad.  Solos have never been the big thing for me in a song, but yeah, I agree that for Metallica they aren't what they used to be. 
 
one safe conclusion so far could be that : every one seems to like this album after a *serious* listen
all bad comments -except inspiration- come from posts before the release date

Invader said:
I agree even more now with __no5,
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do you mean -->this<-- post I presume ?  :)
 
Whoops, that was really unclear.  I meant your point on Slayer influences specifically.  James does sound like Tom Araya at times.
 
Invader said:
I think you probably mistake my opinions on Janick for someone else's, mate.  I've always liked Janick and I don't usually criticize him.
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I remembered some more strong comments but OK, I might have been wrong (sorry).  More important for me is how things will be judged from now on. Also by others who might dig this album and don't criticize Metallica's solos on it.
 
Metallica played in Berlin and the tickets only cost €10.

Imagine someone banging his head on a huge brick wall and you know how I feel for not going.

ARGH!
 
10€ ? kudos to them !

anyway here is Mr Don Kaye's review for Death Magnetic
he is such a pityful as he tries to be excused for rating St Anger 8.0 
---->http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/showreview.aspx?reviewID=1492

here is his review for AMOLAD  :mad: 
---->http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/showreview.aspx?reviewID=858
 
Professionally filmed video footage of Metallica's record-release party held last night (Friday, September 12) at O2 World in Berlin, Germany can be viewed here.

Bild.de video report on Metallica's concert in Berlin, including interviews with the bandmembers, is available at this location.

Metallica performed no less than five tracks off its new album, "Death Magnetic", during its record-release party earlier tonight (Friday, September 12) at O2 World in Berlin, Germany.

The group's setlist was as follows:

01. That Was Just Your Life
02. End Of The Line
03. The Thing That Should Not Be
04. Of Wolf Of Man
05. One
06. Broken, Beat, and Scarred
07. Cyanide
08. Frantic
09. Until It Sleeps
10. Wherever I May Roam
11. For Whom The Bells Tolls
12. The Day That Never Comes
13. Master Of Puppets
14. Blackened
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15. Blitzkrieg
16. Jump In The Fire
17. Seek and Destroy

Metallica was the first band ever to play at the brand new O2 World Berlin, an events arena built by Anschutz Entertainment Group. 17,000 fans got the chance to see the rock legends perform, which is the maximum capacity of O2 World.

Tickets for this unique event were made available exclusivelythrough Metallica's web sites Mission: Metallica and Metclub for a sensatinal price of 10 euros which is about $15.

Metallica took care of all the expenses for the release party and is planning to donate the earnings to the German Heartcenter Berlin to help with the acquisition of a heart-lung machine for small children.
 
So I listened to the entire Death Magnetic album on metallica.com....and was bored to death. Why are all the songs so long, but without substance? Most if not all of them could be cut to 5 minutes and be fine instead of prolonging the pain. Admitted, one or two songs were less painful (Unforgiven III at least at the beginning, The Day That Never Comes) but I was unimpressed. Excuse me while I go listen to Nostradamus instead.
 
I am curious about that "other version":

Metallica's European record label Universal Music cancelled the band's interview with the Swedish newspaper Sydsvenskan last week after one of the paper's writers admitted in his review of the band's new album that he illegally downloaded an alternate version of the CD via the Internet.

In his three-star review (out of a possible five-star rating) of Metallica's long-awaited new effort, "Death Magnetic", Jonn Jeppsson wrote about an edited version of the CD that he obtained through the Swedish web site The Pirate Bay, which bills itself as "the world's largest BitTorrent tracker." According to Jeppsson, "Death Magnetic: Better, Shorter, Cut" contains the same 10 cuts that are found on the regular version of "Death Magnetic" but with "one to four minutes of each song trimmed off." He wrote, "Once the songs are saved from their fatsuits — compare this to people who can lose half their body weight and you can sense how many times too often the choruses are repeated on the original tracks — they're not just glaringly precise and intense, they really live up to expectations."

Speaking to Dagens Media about the review and Universal's decision to cancel Sydsvenskan's scheduled interview with Metallica, Universal Music Sweden president Per Sundin stated, "The reviewer is referring to a BitTorrent where someone has altered the original songs. The reviewer explains exactly where one should go in order to download the file that totally infringes on a copyright. It's not only an illegal file, but an altered file. The reviewer also writes that this is how the album should have sounded. File-sharing of music is illegal. Period. There's nothing to discuss. That fact that Sydsvenskan has a writer that has downloaded this music illegally and then makes mention of an illegal site in his review is totally unacceptable to us.”

Sundin added that Universal Music has not yet determined what impact this incident will have on the label's relationship with Sydsvenskan.

"We live in symbiosis with each other and we send them our artists' record for free for review," he explained. "But if they download the records illegally instead, then there's no point in doing that."

The "enterprising young audio engineer" who claimed responsibility for the edited version of "Death Magnetic" e-mailed the MetalSucks web site on Thursday, September 11 and explained that "basically, I just wanted a new album by Metallica that I could listen to without getting irritated by some lame lyrics or ploddy riffs that go nowhere for three minutes before turning into something cool. The original version of 'Death Magnetic' is the best thing that they've done since '…And Justice For All', but it ain't great. My version is great."
 
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