Metallica

They finally played The Frayed Ends Of Sanity in Helsinki (no videos yet), which now means that all songs from their first 5 albums were played live in their entirety at least once :)
 
The full setlist included: Battery, Master of Puppets, Welcome Home (Sanitarium), Ride the Lightning, The Unforgiven, Lords of Summer, ...And Justice for All, Sad But True, Fade to Black, Orion, One, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Blackened, Nothing Else Matters, Enter Sandman, The Frayed Ends of Sanity, Whiskey in the Jar and Seek and Destroy

I wonder if Lars is still alive after this :eek: Battery+Blackened, One+Justice+Frayed Ends :eek:
 
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Sounds better than I thought it would. James still sounds like Nu-James, Kirk and Lars get a little sloppy, but overall, pretty decent!
 
I don't get it...I see no resemblance between those two guys (who do really look exactly alike) and Lars. Excited to see what happens, though.
 
Less than three weeks. Actually, the Prague concert is day after my wedding :D

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Lars talks about the new song:

http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/me...-new-song-lords-of-summer-is-going-down-well/

This quote sums up by biggest problem with the last two Metallica releases:


Lars Ulrich said:
"I'm pretty convinced that 90 percent of the record is actually written, it's just gotta be kind of assembled between all those riffs. It's just a matter of connecting this to this and sort of shaping it into a song."
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They don't write songs any more. They each record random riffs separately, everybody says, "that's cool!", Lars cuts and pastes them together, James writes lyrics over a bunch of loosely-connected riffs, and they call it a song. Bleh. I'm not excited about the new material.
 
That style of writing is really cool once in awhile. But it gets old when every song is written that way.
 
When it's done right, it can be a great style of writing. And Metallica used the same method in their glorious 80s years as well, they only dropped it during the 90s.
 
Then maybe they've just lost the spark, because I don't hear any similarity between St. Anger/Death Magnetic and Lightning/Puppets/Justice. Sure, they're both thrashy and heavy with multiple riffs, but the older songs sound like complete pieces. The riffs match mood, and the lyrics/subject matter fit perfectly over everything, even when there are shifts in tempo, tonality, or time signatures. The majority of everything they've released post-ReLoad sounds poorly cobbled together. I honestly would rather hear another album that sounds like Load.
 
I really wanted to hear an album in a similar style to the Black Album. First statements regarding the new album were about how it was going to be like Black Album but it doesn't seem to be that way now.
 
I agree. They've proven they can still play fast and heavy, now it's time to boil that down into great songs. Black Album takes a lot of crap, but it's still a great collection of music and incredibly consistent from start to finish.
 
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