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Death Magnetic. The Metal Martyr Review

Scott — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:31:50 +0000

So it’s finally come down. An album and band I’ve talked so much trash about over the past year. A band that has pissed off and disappointed so many fans. A band that sold over a half million copies of this album already. When the hype started rolling in it was the same as the last four albums. But then we heard some previews of some songs, but to most they just didn’t seem all that impressive. So I talked a bit more trash and now it’s finally come down to me doing a review of an album I hated long before it was ever released. By now you have probably heard most of the songs, if not the entire album. You may have bought it, you may have down loaded it. The problems that I didn’t like when I heard the songs online is the production. It sounded terrible and I doubted it even though a lot of production value gets lost in translation over the web. However the production on the cd does sound much better with the exception of a little fuzziness sometimes.

I’m actually going to keep this really short and say that aside from the songs being a bit long and James lyrics being a bit boring and generic, (I can’t believe I’m actually saying this) it’s actually a pretty damn good album. Could it have been better? Absolutely. There are numerous things they could have done to make this record more appealing. Is it the best album of 2008? No, not in my opinion, but I guess it would really depend on what you listen to most of the time. Is it their best since ‘Justice’ as everyone says it is? Maybe, but there are so many factors that you need to think about before saying that, because the while The Black Album was not as heavy in a fast way as their earlier work, it was still a good album. But if you look at this album in a musical perspective it’s not bad in the least. Annoyingly long at times but still a good album. If you’ve only heard a few songs online, try listening to the physical cd. It might just change your mind.

And it’s a billion times better than St. Anger.

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Early Review Of Death Magnetic And A New Streaming Single

Scott — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:57:38 +0000

Tony Hicks of Contra Costa Times got the chance to liten to Death Magnetic in it’s entirety at the secret Metallica headquarters. Why do all these people have to go to Metallica’s headquarters to listen? Because they are afraid of leaks. I’ve been told that review copies won’t go out early but promo copies will after the release. What can you expect. The band is holding on to this shit like they have the secret formula to metal music. I think they need to check the expiration date on that formula.

Anyway, the review is an in an out type review. he says good stuff and bad stuff just like all the other reviews that were posted back before they were “ordered” to take them down. However he does mention the following:

There’s barely a vocal hook in sight — something the band could pull off more than capably on the early records, even if it was shouting a few words to pass for a chorus. Somehow it just doesn’t work so well anymore. But [James] Hetfieldand [Lars] Ulrich may have been so pleased at how well the band sounds the first time in the studio with bassist Robert Trujillo, they just blew off the the choruses.

You can read the entire review here. Also you can check out a streaming version of their new song “My Apocalypse” here, or you can listen to the Youtube rip of it here…until I’m asked to remove it anyway. The song isn’t bad and I would even say that it’s better than the last two they gave us. however the mixing sound weird and I hope that it’s better on the release. I just wish they would tone down the vocals a bit and Lars snare would have more snap than twang, but at least it doesn’t sound like it did on St. Anger. So it’s getting a little bit better as each song is revealed and Hammet played an entire solo without the use of a Wah-wah and it actually sounded really good. Besides the mix I really don’t have anything bad to say about this song. It’s good, not great, but good. Probably the best song since the Black Album.

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