Metallica's Death Magnetic: Early Impressions

By far their best work since "Justice" and refreshingly heavy. I had thought the band was lost for good when they hired that ass clown Bob Rock. Thank God Rick Rubin was able straighten them out and send them towards the path of redemption. Yeah, there's still 1 1/2 songs I skip past, but that's not bad out of 10 songs. The Day That Never Comes starts a little too slow for me and I could have lived without Unforgiven III altogether. The rest of the CD kicks ass and is well worth purchasing.

its nothing special its just a whole bunch of parts taken from old songs like in the day that never comes you can here about 5-7 parts from one.

I love this album and posted a review a few minutes ago on here. I was just thinking though. Apparently they recorded like 15 or 16 hours of riffs during the writing process. I would like to hear some of them. Hopefully this is some insight that they will release another album along the lines of Death Magnetic in the next year or so. I've been waiting my whole life (I'm 24) for them to release another album like this. I was introduced to the band through my mom who bought the Black Album when I was 6 and I took an immediate liking to it. When I turned 13 (right after the release of Load) I discovered ...And Justice for All in her CD collection, and immediately listened to it constantly. My discovery of old school Metallica made me shun the Black Album as beyond inferior. So ever since then, I've been waiting for an album like this. Now we've finally got it, and hopefully they won't wait another 5 years to put out another kick-ass effort like this one.

It sounds like from the mixed reviews that this is a love it or hate it record from Metal's kings. I haven't even thought about buying a Metallica record since garage days re-revisited, and have been dissapointed with their recent efforts, such as St.Anger (crap) and whatever the one with the orchestra was (albeit-brilliant attempt).

I may just have to go out and get this one, just to bring out my inner-Metallica fan, that I thought was gone a long time ago.

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This album is a masterpiece! These guys put their heart and souls into this and it truly shows. The Day That Never Comes gives me chills! I'm so happy for Metallica!! YEAH!!

this album was up there with the black album in my book. i don't know what you r listening to but your a fucking idiot

I've been reading Guitar World's interviews with Kirk and James while listening to the new album. The guitar tones are refined and really awesome. I've noticed though that it appears that James stepped up by playing all the rhythm guitar parts and pulling out the speed picking again, as well as struggling to sing in A440 again. And Lars I assume stepped up by agreeing to play more complex and longer songs. And the new bassist I guess is doing the same as Newstead did at first and hid behind James' guitars.
But I really wish Kirk would step up and compose his guitar solos instead of relying on this "improved" improvising ability which still consists of stale blues licks, the same old three note per string shred parts, and the old random note chromatic run from the 24th fret down that non-musicians are impressed with. His tone is better than I'd ever heard it, but with James likely spending eons in the studio, then him to walk in and try to improvise with nothing prepared? Not the pressure you should be feeling in a comeback record for one of the most influencial metal bands ever.

cyanide is not plodding. it rocks. every song on this album is badass!
this is their most creative , energetic album ever.
MOP and RTL are 20 years old. that was then. this
is THE FUTURE! this blows any modern day metal band
away by light years.
unforgiven 3 is a great song, so is end of the line and broken beat scarred.
this reviewer is an idiot. i ve been a die hard fan since RTL and this album is NASTY!

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