Metallica have titled their new Album “Death Magnetic“. Pretty cool I guess. Better than Load, Reload, or St Anger. Here is a video below, presumably from Metallica.com, uploaded to youtube announcing the album title. The intro riff sounds pretty cool. Kind of …And Justice For All sounding…but let’s not judge the entire record off of that one riff…or else Q-Prime might ask everyone to take it off of their blogs. Check out the videos. They are actually impressive and I promise, no more blatant cynicism towards the band until the release…and I swear to God if it blows I’ll never stop!

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Disappointment, which has been hyped up for well over a year, will finally be released in September…maybe. We never really know. Whatever happens we know it will come out long before Guns N Roses’ Chinese Democracy. Hell, even by the time that’s released China may just be a democratic nation, and then Axl would have to change the album title with another oxymoron title like “Sober Weiland”.

You can Pre-Order your copy of Disappointment Here.

(Disclaimer- None of the above is serious…except maybe the Chinese Democracy line…but even then)

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Just when I thought this was a genuine attempt for the band to let you in and experience the making of the new record….it’s all a marketing ploy. They lure you in with the “Check out the making of..” and then try to hook you into buying merchandise like a heroin dealer giving you a little taste and then offering the full package. Packages range from $24.99 to $124.99. You can also pre-order a cup full or disappointment or as they’re calling it “The new album”. They offer you to buy the cd before you even hear it. Anyone that preorders a Metallica cd these days is either out of their mind or not and old school Metallica fan and actually likes St. Anger. If you like St. Anger…you’re clinically insane. End of story.

I think I may have said while back that I wasn’t going to talk anymore Metallica trash until after the release and review of the new album….I LIED!

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According to Blabbermouth.net Metallica’s upcoming cd will be mixed by Greg Fideleman. Lars also mentions a bunch of “nutty” stuff during a conference call.

METALLICA has tapped Greg Fidelman — an engineer/producer who has worked with current METALLICA producer Rick Rubin on albums for the RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS, SYSTEM OF A DOWN, SLIPKNOT and AUDIOSLAVE, among others — to mix its much-anticipated new album, due out in September.

During a conference call to promote Banaroo Fest Lars said all sorts of “nutty” stuff:

“We sort of promised ourselves that unlike all the records we made in the ’90s, [which] were just completely stressed-out and just nutty, that we were gonna try and have a little more sane environment — and we’ve actually, surprising mostly to ourselves, been able to keep to that,” Ulrich said, according to Billboard.com. “We’ve pretty much finished the music now, so all the next level stuff is just starting to go down.”

Ulrich said METALLICA wrote 26 songs for the new CD but ended up finalizing about 14 of them with producer Rick Rubin. A total of 11 have actually been tracked for the album, though Ulrich said “length issues” might mean one more has to be eliminated.

“These are long songs … we’re talking seven-minute, eight-minute, nine-minute nutty-ass songs,” Ulrich revealed. “We don’t make them long or short on purpose; you just kind of do what feels natural. We’re not really gonna edit them, (so) we’re gonna lose another one at some point in the next month or so and probably end up with 10.”

Ulrich described the material as “definitely pretty all over the place. There’s a lot of variation, a lot of fast, slow, melodic … kind of hardcore, nutty super-fast speed stuff. It’s a little more like how some of the earlier records were a little more dynamic within the songs.”

Wow. Now that’s just nutty! So they should have all kinds of nutty songs left over to make another nuty record in a year or so after this nutty one. Read the rest of this nutty article at Blabbermouth.net

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Every time this is on I get pissed off. I get tired of hearing Lars and James argue like a couple of school girls. I get tired of hearing James try to sing Seek And Destroy like a female porn star faking an orgasm. What is it going to take to regain my faith in a band I once loved for their relentless rawness. Their chugging riffs. Their  Bad-ass-ness!

Crybabies, bad producers, and drama queen ass-monkeys. Lars crying about how when it was just him and James in his room back in 1982 that everything was cool but once someone else was in the room James was different. when “Dave Mustaine came into the picture it all changed” I’m not sure if that was the exact quote but it was something in the range of that. DUDE, Dave has been out of the picture for over 25 years. STFU already! Saying that you don’t want to be pushed away like Jason? Jason didn’t have to be pushed away. He wanted to make music with a band that wasn’t taking 5 years between records and you gave him a choice, Metallica or nothing and he chose otherwise so what the f*ck does that say about the cohesion of the band?!?

Anyway, I hope to hell that Rick Ruben has been working his hairy anus off, molding this band into the kick-ass machine that it once was. I guess we’ll see what happens in September? I say that with a question mark because I’m not 100% confident that their release date will be spot on and won’t get pushed back again. Let’s hope for the best.

And to all those about to leave some pissed off comment…you know I’m right so why even bother?

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James Hetfield, Kirk Hammett and Lars Ulrich offer more insight into the songwriting process for the group’s forthcoming album. “We don’t want pretty good, we want excellent and [producer] Rick Rubin is getting us to try and achieve that,” Hetfield is quoted as saying. “He’s [Rick] very good at getting the essence of an artist out and bringing that back to the top again. It’s the ‘Master of Puppets’ mentality again. You need to prove the world that you’re good, you need to be hungry again — you need to [put on] a showcase that says, ‘Here we are, just like the first time we did it.’”

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From Blabbermouth.net

Tom Lanham of Examiner.com recently conducted an interview with METALLICALars Ulrich. A few excerpts from the chat follow: drummer

On the band’s decision to waive longtime producer Bob Rock for Rick Rubin for the new album (which is tentatively due in February):

“For our own sanity, our own creative survival, we needed to work with a different set of circumstances and dynamics. So we’ve been stripped of our defense mechanisms, and it’s been very invigorating to be challenged again. Rick’s taken everything we’ve known about making records and completely turned it upside down.”

On working songtitles:

“There’s one called ‘19′, ‘10′, ‘German Soup’, ‘Glass Cow’, and even ‘Black Squirrel’. Just names that relate to where the idea came from, like Glasgow, Scotland became ‘Glass Cow’. And when we don’t have anything clever to call it, we just call it a number. They’re just silly working titles.”

On whether the songs are punchier, four or five minutes long:

“Well, the most of the intros are four to five minutes. I don’t know — METALLICA and short songs just don’t go that well together. But whereas ‘St. Anger’ was an exercise in over-pummelling the listener, these new songs echo some of our stuff from the ’80s — long, epic journeys through different musical landscapes, heavier, but a lot more melodic.”

You know, I don’t know what the hell to think about Metallica anymore. There used to be a day when Metallica was a hard working band, serious about their work but ever since Load I’ve had my doubts and with working titles like that it makes you wonder. I just hope that Rick (Ruben) has done no wrong in production of this new record. I really want to eat my words with this one. I want to be proven wrong when I say how disappointing this next record is going to be. I want a really good Metallica record again!

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