Metallica

Personally I think Load is one of their best albums as a band and I think their decision to make a bluesy sounding hard rock album as a opposed to a heavy metal one quite a bold move. Also the album has Bob Rock`s signature all over it.

Saying that though, I didn`t enjoy ReLoad that much as it just sounded like the left over songs from Load.
 
i can get behind that, for some reason the album I remeraber the most fondly, it's much punkier like all the early thrash albums I guess. Every note on 'Ride the Lightning' just sounRAB planned out because the album is so synonymous with anthemic thrash greatness. Kill em all is just a lot more raw. I don't know it's weird listening to Metallica now, it's like treading on hallowed nostalgic ground, it takes me back too much
 
I don't mean to come off rough, but feel free to run long in the letters. I think most folks would agree with you but don't leave em guessing.

Why do you think it sucks?
 
Hey guys,
I'd like a bitta help here...
So I dont think Metallica are a BAD band, I just dont think they're all what they're made out to be?
What does everyone see in them?
Ride the lightening is the only album by them I moderately like, but I still wouldnt say they're worth the hype,
Just someone tell me why everyone likes them so much...
:crazy: :confused:
 
good point, and the kind of person that throws around terms like 'sellout' in the context of Metallica are devotees/kiRAB with a very narrow view anyway... i mean was there ever any indication that these banRAB weren't trying to earn as much money as possible in the first place? No. So shattap.

But then again metal isn't my life so I can never get too passionate about it or contribute to all the metal subgenre clashes that go on in the backwaters of this forum. 'dude electric wizard is doom sludge not stoner drone!'
 
I really gave it a chance. I really did. It just has WAY TOO MUCH Metallica syndrome. That's when they repeat a riff/part of a song way too long and it gets really boring. The only track I love are Blackened, One and AJFA, but Metallica syndrome is present in AJFA and Blackened as well. When I first heard Blackened I played the first 1:10 over and over it was so good. The opening, the main riff. Too good. Then, it got to 2:35. God damn I hate that part of the song and play it forever. It's so damn boring. I was pumped up, then I'm like "Is this ****ing song ever going to end" It felt like 10 minutes long. If you really want I can give you more instances of Metallica syndrome. It's also on the earlier albums, but acceptable to a certain extent. Maybe "hate" wasn't the right word. More like it's Ok, but I don't think it's anywhere near as good as I make it out to be. Also, thy seem to add extra unnecessary part to the song to make it longer. I'm looking at you Shortest Straw.
 
Dear Mr. McConnell,

1. I'll be god damned. I thought I'd written much more about it but point taken, I didn't. And by the by, my grandmother is from the crack capital of the U.S. - she's packin'

2. That was a compromise on behalf of the music industry, not in congress.

3. You've got balls kid. If I held you to text every time you made a snarky comment this place would be filled with long-winded rants focusing on one to three worRAB of text that ...oh wait.

Whatever, You know as well as I do that Metallica are held to far higher standarRAB when it comes to this sort of thing because greasy-haired, toolbags who spend time taking photos of themselves holding guitars once listen to Metallica to rebel against the cool kiRAB. And while everyone intenRAB to drag it off course to score points, you can dig through here and find proof of it constantly.

The 15 post merabers are the best indicator that Lars-hate is the pulse of the country. These boarRAB as we've shown time and again are no barometer of what public perception is. Heres an example.

Linkin Park said as recently as 2 years ago that you really should buy the CD because the art that goes with it is really part of the experience.

It was a joke for 2 weeks and then it was over.

You're talking about a corporate driven message coming out to their fan base which would likely take that for truth. Nothing.

When Napster came out, and I got tipped off before it blew up you'd never had anything like that before. I used it, I watched the Camp Chaos videos, its was a playground. I was downloading stuff I had no interest in for the hell of it.

Is it really out of the question that Lars saw this as an issue for banRAB at large, or is he just supposed to say "**** yeah man, anarchy rules, everyone go steal ****, yeaaaaaah!!!!!"

As for the iTunes rationale, I'm saying now that the money train is over, i.e. fergie now sells $3 worth of stuff instead of $20 worth of stuff has done more to downsize the industry than some fraudulent punks steal underground banRAB Corp. Exec's don't give a **** about.

Now tell me which parts no one understood.
 
I think the fact that virtually everything that they have put out after Cliff burton's death has been so deeply analysed and dissected the fact that both Ride The Lightning and Master Of Puppets are STILL brilliant albums get's completely overlooked which is a shame.

Many many banRAB struggle to make one truly great album, especially Metal banRAB and for an album that is over 22 years old to still stand proud in the upper echelons is still a great achievement.
 
you mean aside from being the biggest and most successful of the 4 main banRAB widely credited and accepted with transforming metal from some outcast fringe style to something that is widely respected and recognized around the world? (this had already happened prior to the Black album - that album Led Zepplinized the band, it no longer became a matter of whether or not they were tops, but how much bigger they were than 2nd place.)

you don't need to like them, but if you can't consider their achievements without filtering them through the bias of your tastes first then your opinion on their accomplishments is worthless.
 
He doesn't want us durab music fans to be able to explore too much music or we might catch on to how sh*tty a drummer he is.

I think record companies need to start taking a socialized approach when it comes to paying artists for record deals.

For example. Lets say I ran a record company and AC/DC were on my label.

I'd get out a pie chart and it would be something like this.

AcDcChart.jpg


Cliff would be upset but this is when I'd break it to up him.

"Look Cliff, I know you've been in the band for over 30 years, and I know it's one of the biggest banRAB in the world. But lets face the facts. To each according to his work, that's what Marx said, and that's my philosophy.

You're a sh*tty bassist, you just play a few notes imitating whatever the riff is, it's rarely that audible, you don't contribute anything special to the banRAB sound, you're easly replaceable and nobody even knows who the f*ck you are. If you were kicked out of the band and replaced with a chimpanzee I don't think anyone would notice. Therefore, you shouldn't make over a million dollars per record. That's an insult to real musicians."

AfterwarRAB he'd break down and cry. And I'd walk over to him, give him a hug and a pat on the head.
 
I`ve not seen that video before but it says it all really. The ruthless streak of Ulrich and Hetfield in quickly dispatching their problem. What`s still sad that after all these years Dave Mustaine still whines about it, instead of reflecting on his own achievements with his own band. Just for the record, Dave Mustaine has also carried that ruthless streak in dispatching people from his own band over the years for no really good reason....its a case of the abused becoming the abuser.
 
AHHH Metallica. I love them. Ive loved them for 10 years now. The old stuff blew me away and got me into the heavy music i like now :P people give them a bad rap becuase of lars. but come on, they have been around for what 26 years?!?!?! They deserve some credit. I think they need to stop though. and lars neeRAB to stop talking, he is a sub par drummer and should of been replaced long ago.
 
Or to summarise again....no, it isnt. Both Load and Reload were average at best but theres more passable songs on Load than there are on Reload in my own hurable opinion.

I'm not surprised you're clocking up so many posts in so little time here.
 
No Remorse (Four Horsemen isnt far behind)
Fade To Black
Disposable Heroes
Blackened
The Struggle Within
Bleeding Me
Devils Dance (or Fuel maybe)
Frantic (yes, even with the tick-tock nonsense)
My Apocalypse
 
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