I previously reported that Metallica’s Death Magnetic was to be released on September 16th. It has been clarified that it will actually be a worldwide release on Friday September 12th as St. Anger was also released on a Friday. Normally CD’s are released on a Tuesday in the U.S. and everyone that saw that it was to be released in Europe assumed (Yeah, I know) that it would follow up the Tuesday after for the U.S. release date. Personally I think this is to avoid it being leaked on the Internet and people in the U.S. and other places illegally downloading it before buying it whether they have intent to buy or not. But if people really want to illegally download it, it doesn’t matter what day it comes out. Look for Death Magnetic in stores everywhere September 12th.

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 said that it looks like a vagina. Is this intentional? I think so. Now let’s look at a few other things I’ve thought about today. I’m going to try to run through this quick because there is other news I need to get to.

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Braves Words & Bloody Knuckles announced that Microsoft and Metallica are teaming up to bring the fans the entire album of Death Magnetic to be downloadable to Guitar Hero 3 and Guitar Hero: World Tour on XBox on the date of release…but only for the XBox 360.

Whether they got a fat chunk of change for it or not, this is a cool thing for the band to do. I sincerely hope that it’s all worth the downlaod and that the album rocks. We’ll see. Here is a bit of the anouncement from Metallica’s official page and you can read even more infor at BW&BK:

“Death Magnetic,” the entire album, available for Guitar Hero too! It’s a first in both music and gaming . . . the same day that “Death Magnetic” hits the streets, you’ll be able to download every song from the album for Guitar Hero III! We are so psyched that we’ll be the first out of the gate with this simultaneous release . . . who knows, maybe a few years from now this will be the norm when your favorite band’s new record comes out.

There is a rumor floating around teh net that says Metallica’s release date for their new album, Death Magnetic may be September 16th. Here is what Blabbermouth reported:

“According to Finland’s Record Shop X, the Finnish release date for the new METALLICA album, “Death Magnetic”, is Wednesday, September 17. Although no official release date has yet been announced, it is likely that the CD will be issued in the U.S. on September 16, with most of continental Europe receiving the album on Monday, September 15 (except Germany, Austria and Switzerland, where fans will presumably be able to purchase the CD on Friday, September 12).”

I wouldn’t hold my breath or mark my calandar. We won’t really know untill it’s confirmed and it can always be pushed back again. Every time I say “Death Magnetic” I think of Sponge’s song Wax Ecstatic.

So, for everyone that saw the little joke I did for Metallica’s new album cover and title, I hope you enjoyed it with a grain of salt. This time it’s the real deal…with the exception of the album cover. We still don’t know what that’s going to look like.

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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MetalMartyr.com (That’s me!) had the privilege of getting exclusive rights to post the very first image of the New Metallica Album Artwork and working title.

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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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 travesty only happened because of all the people that voted for Master Of Puppets or AJFA took the votes from Kill ‘Em All.

Reload and St Anger both got two votes, but one of the votes for St. Anger doesn’t count because it was just me being an ass.

Garage Inc. and S&M both took 1 vote and Load, poor Load got nothing.

So there you have it. Out of 138 people/votes Master Of Puppets has been voted as Metallica’s Best Release.

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As you may have heard and seen all over the net, a few key people were given a private preview of Metallica’s new album. Some gave it really good reviews and one contributor from Quietus, Bob Mulhouse gave it a decent review saying: “This album could be good, or it could be mediocre – too much depends on the other four songs to make a call at this point.”

Comcast.net Music posted this:

“It came as something of a surprise then to find that the internet had been expunged of any coverage of the event. We emailed The Quietus editor Luke Turner about what happened. He gave this response:

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From blabbermouth:

Lars Ulrich revealed last week in Los Angeles that the band has all but finished recording its ninth studio effort, with only a few touch-ups to be completed this week before mixing begins. As for what the band’s first CD since 2003’s “St. Anger” sounds like, Ulrich told The Pulse of Radio it’s hard for him to put a finger on it. “It’s METALLICA, that I can tell you,” he said. “My dad was up at the house a couple, three, four weeks ago so I played him a couple, three, four songs and I said, ‘Well?’ And he goes, ‘It sounds like METALLICA.’ And I don’t know if you can define it, I mean we can sit and get into, you know, little definitions about that, but he just looked at me and said, ‘That sounds like METALLICA.’ And that’s pretty cool.”

So…let’s dissect this a bit. Does it sound like NEW Metallica….or OLD Metallica? Does it sound like Master Of Puppets? Or does it sound like Load? Eh, who cares really. We’re going to get the run around, the “this” and “That”, the ‘Nutty’ explanation and the ‘all over the place’ explanation. In fact I’m sure every band member that gets interviewed is probably sick of trying to answer that question. Honestly, I can’t blame them one bit.I’m sick of hearing them try to explain it too. Lars…just tell them:”You’ll foind oat wut it fooking sewnds loyke when it cumes oat”…(you have to read it like Lars would say it)

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You can download Metallica’s May 14th Show from Wiltern Theatre in L.A. at Livemetallica.com here  Metallica 5/14/08 Wiltern Theater, LA The Set list for the show is below:

• Creeping Death
• Fuel
• For Whom The Bell Tolls
• Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
• And Justice for All
• Sad But True
• Disposable Heroes
• One
• Master Of Puppets
• Battery
• Last Caress
• No Remorse
• Enter Sandman
• Fight Fire With Fire
• Seek and Destroy
• Total Running Time: 01:39:32

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