Metallica - DEATH MAGNETIC

Brain Of E
Brain Of E Posts: 499
edited June 2008 in Other Music
http://metallica.com/index.asp?item=600961

new album name: DEATH MAGNETIC

also here's a review from Kerrang!
http://www2.kerrang.com/2008/06/metallica_preview_new_album_in.html

Metallica preview new album in London

Metallica held a very special listening session for the forthcoming, as-yet-untitled ninth album last week in London, where members of the press were treated to six of the album’s ten tracks. K! was there and we’re happy to report it RULES!

The metal kings have been hard at work with producer par excellence Rick Rubin (Slayer / System Of A Down / Red Hot Chili Peppers / Trouble) on the follow-up to 2003's St Anger. The results, predictably, are very heavy, and very metal.

"It's definitely Metallica, that I can tell you," commented drummer Lars Ulrich at a press conference last month. "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."

There's no confirmed track names yet (or, at least, we hope Flamingo isn't a real title), but if you want to check out snippets of Metallica in the studio, head over to http://www.missionmetallica.com. Meanwhile, here's five things you'll find on the new album...

GUITAR SOLOS!
After abandoning the art of shredding entirely in favour of wet guitars and a drumkit made of dustbins on St Anger, we’re proud to report that Kirk Hammett’s trademark greased-lightning solos are firmly back in place. Hooray!

METAL THRASHING MADNESS!
It must have stuck in James Hetfield’s craw to see the young bucks in Municipal Waste, Evile and Gama Bomb trying to nick his King Of The Riff crown from him. So, to remind these little gits exactly who it was who had a hand kickstarting the thrash movement, on the new record there’s a cavalcade of mental mosphpit moments, as well as the man declaring himself a “heavy metal riff machine”.

DARK LYRICS!
“Sunshine never comes”. “Show your scars”. “|Suicide, I’ve already died!”. On the new album, James Hetfield’s once again dealing with some serious stuff in his lyrics, making for some decidedly dark phrases. But it’s not all doom and gloom, he also declares that he’s “Up from the wreckage one more time”. After St Anger, ‘Tallica sure are.

LABYRINTHINE ARRANGEMENTS!
Placing dozens of riffs into maze-like arrangements and joining them up with cunning, tricky fills is essential to making classics like Master of Puppets twist and turn. Once again, Metalllica stick two fingers up to verse/chorus/verse and drop a cunningly designed carpet-bomb of riffola on us. Superb.

ULTRA-HEAVY PRODUCTION
Rick Rubin’s CV includes twiddling the knobs for Slayer, Mayhem, System of A Down and Trouble. If there’s an expert of heavy, it’s him, and he’s done a sterling job ensuring that ‘Tallica’s new album is heavier than a pregnant hippo. Although it’s much, much faster than that.
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  • EquallyWorthless
    EquallyWorthless Posts: 3,993
    cool i hope its good and i have a feeling it will be more like the black album then st anger but im still not getting my hopes up.
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  • Brain Of E
    Brain Of E Posts: 499
    bump
    Down in the hole, Jesus tries to crack a smile beneath another shovel load.
  • gabers
    gabers Posts: 2,787
    According to the recent Rolling Stone review, they swear it will be more on par with their first two albums, Kill em All and Ride the Lightning. I think that's a good career move for them. Even the hardcore Metallica fans were not taking them seriously any more.
  • Brisk.
    Brisk. Posts: 11,581
    just want something from LOAD. Best album of theirs.
  • SVRDhand13
    SVRDhand13 Posts: 27,023
    I BrisK I wrote:
    just want something from LOAD. Best album of theirs.

    LOAD is there best album???

    Puppets, Lightning, Justice, Black, Kell Em All are all much better than LOAD. Like 100 times better.

    I hope this new album sounds like the older stuff.
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  • Mike_Muse_Rage
    Mike_Muse_Rage Posts: 677
    I BrisK I wrote:
    just want something from LOAD. Best album of theirs.
    I like Load a lot too. Not my favourite though.
  • Gremmie95
    Gremmie95 Posts: 749
    I BrisK I wrote:
    just want something from LOAD. Best album of theirs.


    Seriously? Not dogging your opinion but it isn't even in their top 4 or 5.
  • NYbenben
    NYbenben Posts: 1,020
    gabers wrote:
    According to the recent Rolling Stone review, they swear it will be more on par with their first two albums, Kill em All and Ride the Lightning. I think that's a good career move for them. Even the hardcore Metallica fans were not taking them seriously any more.

    god i hope so... Metallica's first 3 albums are all masterpieces... the last 4 or so sucked, and i have been a fan of theirs since 1983.
    4/12/92, 8/11/92, 9/28/96, 9/11/98, 8/23/00, 8/24/00, 7/9/03, 4/30/03, 10/1/04, 10/3/05, 12/9/05, 5/12/06, 5/17/06, 5/28/06, 6/3/06, 12/9/06, EV LA 4/12-4/13/08, 6/12/08, 6,19,08, 6,20,08, 6/24/08, 6/25/08, 7/1/08

    and still jonesing for another show....
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  • BetterThanYou
    BetterThanYou Posts: 853
    weren't the reviews before st. anger's release kind of the same? i'll listen and i hope it lives up to the hype, but if i get burned again, i'll never buy another album from them again.
    "Have you ever.........pooped a balloon?"
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  • Shawn Smith Collective
    Shawn Smith Collective Posts: 986
    BetterThanYou wrote:
    weren't the reviews before st. anger's release kind of the same? i'll listen and i hope it lives up to the hype, but if i get burned again, i'll never buy another album from them again.

    At first that was my concern too, but there are two huge differences:

    1. The early St. Anger returns talked about the music being maddeningly fast and aggressive, but little else. Fans took this to mean the songs were like the older songs as opposed to the Load era tracks. That was our own inference and we were wrong. :( The new comments - including those from Lars himself - talk about melody, structure, a sound that harkens back to the pre-Black Metallica. Also Lars has commented on the epic-length tunes.

    2. Rick Rubin.
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  • ironlionzion74
    ironlionzion74 Posts: 75
    I don't care what its like as long as it is different just a little.I've been a die hard Metallica fan since 1986.Personally I loved what they did at The Bridge School Benefit last October.I think they should mix it up at their shows and play some acoustic rock sets in the middle somewhere.Or at least just some of those songs electric.I Just Want To Celebrate was cool as fuck.Anyway,P.J at Va Beach tomorrow!!!!!!
  • restlesssoul
    restlesssoul Posts: 6,961
    awesome, my hopes are up.....this is gonna be a good one. they deserve to be back in form.
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  • Ved in the Head91
    Ved in the Head91 Posts: 70
    SVRDhand13 wrote:
    LOAD is there best album???

    Puppets, Lightning, Justice, Black, Kell Em All are all much better than LOAD. Like 100 times better.

    I hope this new album sounds like the older stuff.


    I feel Load is underrated, but it's still not as good as Puppets, Lighting, or Justice.

    I do listen to it more than the Black Album, though.
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  • MattyJoe
    MattyJoe Posts: 1,424
    Let's hope this release can wipe St. Anger off the face of the earth for good. What a horrible album that was.
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  • obiwon76
    obiwon76 Posts: 568
    Agree, St.Anger was just awful. You can tell the band feels the same due to not even playing one single song from the album live the past 2 years.

    The review from Kerrang sounds consistant with what the band has been saying. 7 min songs, solos, riff after riff. Isnt this what made us love them in the first place?

    I love how they are playing more Load/Re-Load songs this year on tour.
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  • bluemonkey
    bluemonkey Posts: 198
    this album sounds like it's gonna kick ass.finally the solos are back!!!
  • 12345AGNST1
    12345AGNST1 Posts: 4,906
    So its basically metallicas second coming. The same how avocado was supposed to be for pearl jam...

    well see.....
    5/28/06, 6/27/08, 10/28/09, 5/18/10, 5/21/10
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  • Lost_Clay
    Lost_Clay Posts: 1,085
    maybe just maybe rick rubin will work his magic yet again


    also, worse title ever
    "ah fuck it get in trouble"

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  • Brain Of E
    Brain Of E Posts: 499
    Lost_Clay wrote:
    maybe just maybe rick rubin will work his magic yet again


    also, worse title ever

    I agree with you about Rick Rubin, but not about the title. To me, it totally sounds like a real fuckin metal album. It kinda reminds me of something Megadeth would have come up with. Anyways, i like it, that title is BRUUUUTAAAL!!
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  • Jellyrolls
    Jellyrolls Posts: 523
    I don't think Rick Rubin is capable of fucking up. He is the greatest producer to ever live.

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