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Yea, I'd like an album that doesn't give me a headache. I like Death Magnetic but it's so loud and needlessly distorted that I rarely have the urge to listen to it.
 
Here's another with a little less distortion (you can hear James a lot better):


So it sounds exactly like Death Magnetic. Once again, there are some cool riffs and ideas here, but the song is just too long winded and jumbled. James vocals don't seem to fit in certain parts and Kirk's soloing is incredibly sloppy and lazy. I do really like that harmonized section, though.

I miss Bob Rock
 
Mosh said:
Yea, I'd like an album that doesn't give me a headache. I like Death Magnetic but it's so loud and needlessly distorted that I rarely have the urge to listen to it.
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There are (illegal) ways to solve this. Google "Death Magnetic Mark [or Marck] III," update your malware blockers, and enjoy.
 
Who knows how it will end out on record indeed as Ulrich says in the above linked interview with Rolling Stone:

"But while the song sounds fully crafted, Ulrich says things change. "We did the same thing when we went out and played a bunch of dates in 2006," he says. "We were writing and played two different new songs over the course of that summer, and none of them made the record [Death Magnetic]. One was called 'New Song 1' – going out on a creative limb, here – and the other was called 'New Song 2.' That's how deep we went. There was a couple of pieces in 'New Song 1,' some of the middle bit ended up in 'All Nightmare Long,' and the intro bit ended up in 'The End of the Line.' That's how we work; stuff just gets changed around, moved over and this goes over there and the rest of that gets sacked and that ends up in the intro in song five." [Laughs]

"So who knows what's going to happen with this stuff," he says. "But we are off and running and have been creating away in the studio and now we're going to go out and play and sweat and share and we've got some new music that we want to throw everybody's way. And maybe by the time we get to Europe, there will be a different song or different thing or different arrangement. Who knows? We'll sort of take it one step at a time."
 
Someone with a lot of time on their hands made this mix of all of the videos on YouTube:


The sound isn't any better, but at least you can see a lot more.
 
What a joke the "by request" setlist is! The so called "fans" mainly voted for the same old overplayed songs. Oh well.

From: http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/metallica/2014/parque-simon-bolivar-bogota-colombia-43c2cf17.html

Blackened
Master of Puppets
Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
Fuel
(followed by Bleeding Me guitar doodle)
The Unforgiven
The Lords of Summer
(New song / World premiere)
...And Justice for All
Sad but True
Fade to Black
Orion
One
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Battery
Nothing Else Matters
Enter Sandman
Encore:
Creeping Death
Ride the Lightning
Seek & Destroy
(with The Frayed Ends of Sanity outro)
 
Almost all "by request" setlists have essentially the same results. Just goes to show you how many casual fans attend a band's show.
 
Frayed Ends is in Top 17 for Helsinki I think. Even if they don't play it on this tour, they'll play it on the next one - Lars said they practiced it.
 
And the ongoing saga of different versions of "Lords of Summer" continues! This one is official and at least you can hear everything much more clearly. Drums and vocals are pretty terrible, but hey, it's a very early demo. Still sounds better than all of St. Anger!

 
Thanks for sharing! I suspect there will also soon be an official live version, with soundboard sound out because Metallica just released the Columbia, Bogota show on Livemetallica.com
 
Here is the soundboard version:

As far as the song goes, I'm really digging it. The melodic part at 5:25 to the solo is so sweet! So classic sounding! Also, they did say somewhere that the new album is going to be a continuation of Death Magnetic. I really enjoyed DM, but I hope they put even more of an old school sound into the new stuff.
 
That's my favorite thing Metallica has done since S&M. Sad that it takes a cover medley to make me feel the same way I did about Metallica 15 years ago, but oh well. An amazing medley and a surprisingly great vocal by James.
 
The production sound very good on that medley, Lords of Summer sounded like Death Magnetic from a sound standpoint, this guitar sound is much better.
 
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