Death Magnetic

You fucking tease. I really want them to make a kick arse album and give a big two fingered salute to the doubters. I have got my disappointed pill ready with my glass of scotch.
 
Opinions on a new Metallica album were always gonna be split. St. Anger had a few supporters and one hell of a backlash. DM was either going to continue in the same trend or it was going to turn St. Anger on its head, maybe go back to their thrash roots a little and start to win some of their fans back. They would have even satisfied some of their fans if they had made another Reload. As it turns out I think a large proportion of the initial opinions are positive but of course there are going to be some negative opinions too. You cant help that. It's the same with any band, any record etc.

While some of the negative opinions I've read/heard since the album was released have been perfectly understandable and theres been some good points raised I believe this thread, in places, just highlights what we already know and that is that a large nuraber of people wrote it off before it came out and were always going to. DM is no masterpiece and it was never going to be an album you could hold up to the likes of MoP and Kill Em All but I would expect the Metallica haters to all be able to agree on ONE thing provided they had kept an open mind and gave this album a listen and that is, even if you think its ****, its NOTHING like St. Anger....
 
Anyone heard Testaments new album? Man they have lost a lot of respect from me. Used to love this band. Talk about a Metallica rip off...

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I would download it from somewhere, but I am too afraid of having Lars emaling me some sanctimonious speech about how downloading is bad, and he will still a bass drum over my head if i try it again... Lars is nothing if not protective.
 
If he's truly a Metallica fan, and not just a KEA/RTL/MOP/AJFA fan then there's no way he thinks the album is "crap", unless he's deaf. Is it as good as early efforts? No, not quite, but it's far from crap and to say otherwise is just simply bullsh*t, especially if they're supposedly a fan. If it's a Jay Z fan and they hate the album, well, that I understand.

It's become sport to bash Metallica post-Napster and even if they put out the greatest metal album in history you'd still have retarRAB on here saying "they shoulda retired years ago" and the the album sucks, etc etc...pretty pathetic.
 
If I had to take a guess some of the peaks are above 0.0 which causes it to get a bit fuzzy. If you burn off a high quality rip and play it in a cd player with your settings (volume included) the same as you would any other album does it sound noticably louder?
 
My favourite track is All Nightmare Long and I like the whole album. No way do I love it like ...And Justice for All which is my favourite, but I like it the more I listen to it.

I'm glad it wasn't another St. Anger.
 
No offence, you may be quite right about it being boring - I, after all, haven't heard it at all - but would you care to elaborate on why you hold that opinion??!
 
Seriously though...i don't think anyone expects RTL/MoP.
This is as good as it gets with modern day metallica. Listening to it a second time, I'm actually liking it now. There isn't much room for originality in thrash metal. It's either you dig it or don't dig it.
 
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