Death MagneticReviews: Death Magnetic
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0093624986188 Label: Warner Bros. Manufacturer: Warner Bros. MPN: 508732 Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Warner Bros. Release Date: September 12, 2008 Studio: Warner Bros. Rating:  - Welcome back, guys!Imagine if you will, an alternate universe in which Metallica went on hiatus after releasing ...And Justice for All. Sure, they occasionally got together for special projects, such as S&M. However, by and large, the guys went on to do solo projects, grow as musicians, and ceased to function as the band Metallica. Then, they got back together to do Death Magnetic: this is the album they would have created. This is a great, thrashy album that, in some ways, echoes Kill `em All more than any of their other work. Gone is the painful bid for Top 40 popularity. This album was recorded by a thrashin', hard-rockin', evolved and mature Metallica that is proud of its roots. Fans of 90's-era Metallica might find this album too heavy; the rest of us are too busy flashing the horns and banging our heads to care. Rating:  - Classic Metallica!Slog through the "Load" years and stop being angry about "St. Anger"... THIS is the Metallica album you've been waiting for since somewhere between "...And Justice For All" and the eponymous "Black Album". Genius and musical hermit Rick Rubin did his job: he pushed Lars, James, Kirk and Robert to resurrect Metallica into new life with an album about death. Hard edged, full tilt metal and all the Hetfield lyrics and riffage you can take is in "Death Magnetic". With many songs topping 7 minutes, 'Tallica take back the reign of the heavy metal kingdom. This album is sure to rank in the Metallica cannon amongst "Master of Puppets" and "Justice". It's everything you love about Metallica's music, and nothing you don't. I can't wait to see the guys live to hear how these new songs fit into an already musically historic set. Top Tracks: "Broken, Beat & Scarred", "Cyanide", "The Judas Kiss", "My Apocalypse" Rating: - Back To BasicsMetallica now has finally dropped the whole St. Anger thing and has come back with there newest album Death Magnetic a metal album filled with fast guitar riffs pounding drums and screaming vocals, a classic heavy metal album. Death Magnetic is a great album and you should buy it now. Some key tracks are, "That Was Just Your Life", "All Nightmare Long", and "My Apocalypse". Buy today Rating: - metallica is finally backthis is a good cd i had lost all hope when the st.anger cd came out, but it seems they are trying to redeem themselves. i really liked it myself it's still different from the old metallica, but still heavy and good you can it's the real metallica when you listen to it. they even had lead guitar solo's again. Rating:  - Better... better...Cool cover showing a coffin garlanded with a magnetic halo of iron filings, the booklet pages are cut through to give it some depth (literally). Opening track "This Was Just Your Life" sounds a bit like "Blackened," the opening track of the 1988 album that "Death Magnetic" is called a revival of. Somehow "The End of the Line" comes out a bit bluesy, although it quickly begins to headbang. "Beaten, Broke and Scarred" is a pretty good track, while the infectious "The Day That Never Comes" sounds like something from the Black Album. They have a pretty good video for it out already that should appeal to all the young Metallica fans serving in Iraq. "All Nightmare Long" is one of those fast fast things with lots of wah in the solo. "Cyanide" is a dull song with a good solo that has a brief, strange Iron Maiden moment. "Unforgiven III" is another catchy song, not a sequel to the Clint Eastwood/Morgan Freeman film. The squeaky guitar solo is not too bad. "The Judas Kiss" is loud and angry with a very fast solo, lots of wah and a bit of flange. No bass, of course, it's trapped at the bottom of the mix, I don't know why Metallica needs a virtuoso bassist like Robert Trujillo, although a bit of burbling does come out in the instrumental "Suicide & Redemption" (an ironic poke at Trujillo's old band, Suicidal Tendencies?). Following the album's longest song is its shortest, "My Apocalypse," which closed "Death Magnetic" with five minutes of fury. Good, fast, punky. Death Magnetic ReviewsMore reviews:Buy Death Magnetic Sale Reviews Deals
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