Metal AttractionAfter the impenetrable 'St. Anger', this is something of a return to form. OK - it's back to the mainstream, but that's what most Metallica fans want. This album delivers in spades and all the songs clock in at between 5 and 8 minutes. It's classy, atmospheric, ballsy rock - the songs are good, the playing's tight, Hetfield's in fine voice, and all is well with the Metallica world. Recommended!
Death Magnetic - AwesomeThis album demonstrates many of the influences Metallica have had over the years. Every song is quite different to the one before yet all remain very appealing and enjoyable.
It seems Metallica have rediscovered the right mix of melody, aggression and funk after their last few disappointing efforts. Some of the influences I can pick up on are: Iron Maiden, John 5, Slayer, Pantera and perhaps even a little bit of Marty Friedman. Favourite song? Cyanide
In summary, a brilliant album of very different tunes but all capturing the imagination of the listener. Thoroughly recommended - 5 Star!
Magnetic appealFor goodness sake let's get things in perspective here. For all hard-core Metallica fans, no, this isn't as good as Master of Puppets and yes, it's better than Load/Reload and St Anger. For all of that can you think of a better Metal album than this released in the last decade? I certainly can't. Enjoy for what it is. A serious quality metal album from the masters. It's not perfect, but it's as close as anyone's been for a long time. For all those complaining about sound quality, buy a decent set of headphones for your pod, believe me, it makes a difference with this album.
And bland for all...This band used to be at the cutting edge of their field and pretty much the "best" at what they did.
Unfortunately so was Babbage's Difference Engine.
The only thing sticking out from the pile of "meh" is a few solos and a couple of riffs (mainly from 'All Nightmare Long'). Still, it held my interest long enough for me to see it through to the end.
What i certainly didn't feel was "Metallica are back" or "Its a bit of MOP and a bit of AJFO with a sprinkle of RTL" or anything vaguely pretentious like that.
Fortunately Metallica have made each one of their albums sound fairly unique (Load and Reload excepted, obviously) and i hope they continue on that path.
However, there is just too much stellar metal (Ansur, Cynic, Decapitated, Bal-Sagoth, Pantera, Emperor etc etc etc) for this to have any real shelf life.
Don't hold your breath for the next one though...
Love it, but still have a problem with the garage soundThis is a great album and I have been playing in constantly for two months. This is hard and heavy and so if you are more used to the easier going Black Album/Load/Re-load this might not be for you, although I would still recommend listening to it.
The only gripe I've got, is why do Metallica insist on using a sound which sounds like they recorded it with a fostex tape four track. I really miss the production of the black album - what ever happened to making sounds 'sound' good - as the songs are great.
One final thing I will add - this album translates better than any other album live - amazing.
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