You know what sucks about having a full time job is that a lot of the time I have to wait until after work to catch up on updates for my blogs. So there are a few pieces of news I have to catch up on. It’s not really news anymore that Metallica have released the artwork for Death Magnetic, so I thought I would try to make this interesting.
It’s quite obvious that the new album cover isn’t anything really epic and it’s cool that they are using the old Metallica logo. As every other site and commenter has …read more

Since I started writing for The Rock Dose, I found myself exploring more modern rock bands and actually enjoying a lot of it. That doesn’t mean I’m abandoning metal, in fact it doesn’t even mean I’m listening to less metal. It just means I’ve been listening to shit I normally wouldn’t. For instance, I bought the new Shinedown the other day titled Sound Of Madness and it’s actually a pretty good rock cd. I was sent a copy of Trapt’s new album Only Through The Pain and while that is a bit more of pop/rock it’s still not that bad. …read more

I started the Metallica Poll 2 weeks ago and today I’m taking it down just to replace it with another useless, yet entertaining poll. Here is the results.
Master Of Puppets, although started off a bit slow won the poll with 30% of the votes (42/138)
…And Justice For All Started out strong but in the past week started to fall slightly short. AJFA took second place with 26% of the votes (36/138)
Ride The Lightning came in third with 16% and 22 votes.
Sadly the Black Album just barely beat out Kill ‘Em All with a 17 to 15. I’m assuming this …read more

I’ve been rating a few of my favorite bands albums lately and I figured I’d not touch this one and I’ve been pondering on a new poll here for quite some time and figured with all the news and hype of Metallica’s new album coming this fall, why not a Metallica poll. It’s kind of stupid but I’m eager to see what the outcome will be. You can only vote once. IP’s are logged so there’s no pecker-heads loading the ballots. I have included every album to include Garage Inc and S&M but not the Garage Days 5.98 EP. Vote …read more

Sorry, Couldn’t resist the headline. It’s amazing, no matter how much bad press they get. No matter how crappy of a record they put out lately, Metallica can still sell out a concert in less than an hour. I honestly don’t know why they even bother writing new material and recording it. Why don’t they just keep touring for the rest of their lives and playing old stuff. It works for Kiss and I’m sure it would work for them. If they use the excuse “We write new stuff to give the fans what they want.” then they should be …read more