Death Magnetic - Metallica's 9th Studio Album

[hifi_killer]

there is nothing wrong with not sticking to your roots, neither does it has anything to do with commericialisation. Metallica is already a heavyweight in the music scene, there is no reason for them to 'sell out' to grow even bigger.

It is natural for people to desire the familiar, reject the 'different', having inevitably bias oppinions

 

[empihsrow]

Neither did I say that their new works are bad.

It just doesn't feel like thrash, that's all.

But you have to acknowledge the fact that they're getting their way into the mass right now as compared to two decades ago.

 

[wasp]

If they were honest enough to say that they have grown out of metal and wanting like to go into another direction, I could accept that. Even I listen to stuff that I wouldn't hear in my younger days. We mellow down as we aged. But I could not accept thier disregard of older fans and not being honest about their past. The feeling was one of being betrayed.

 

[edder]

empihsrow, Kreator's Coma of Soul is one of my all time favourites.

 

[super_punk]

I wonder why Kreator isn't credited as one of the most influential thrash bands. As far as I can remember, their history is as long as Metallica's.

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in my book, i've always regarded kreator as one of the most influential thrash bands. of course i regard them differently to metallica cos they're not american. which thrasher doesn't worship the three kings of teutonic thrash: sodom, kreator and destruction?

anyway off topic. let's hope that Metallica's new album is good. we shouldn't assume that it'll suck or that it'll be a step away from everything cool about metowww. just look at megadeth, united abominations is the shit. metallica can do it. i think

if you really wanna talk about a thrash band gone wayward, let's talk about anthrax, wat a fukkin mess that band is. too much new yawk hardkaw, too much rap metal. anyone who's into anthrax's rap-metal days, sorry. But really, who listens to I'm the Man and thinks that's an awesome song from a metal viewpoint or a rap viewpoint? no one. and if there is anyone, you will die a slow a death listening to crappy music.

 

[edder]

Attack of the killer B's was an awesome Bside album! I love the ballad that ends with "She got hit by the truck" to bits and its fricken funny! Anyway I always thought that Anthrax was a band that just didn't give a fuk on how others would look at them.

 

[lars_ulrich]

all hail green jelly.

 

[Ized]

I don like metallica from the black album onwards. But at least Kirk Hammet still solos better than those guys from slayer

 

[fullmetal]

For those of us who are crying and whining about our favourite bands have gone soft or change their musical direction just to have more commercial appeal and win more fans... face it, it's gonna happen sooner or later. Bear in mind that our favourite bands consist of professional musicians, they live off the music they create. We can rant 24/7 but these bands will try to make as much money from their talent and in the end, who's gonna have the last laugh?

I may disagree with Metallica's output as evident in the Load and Reload albums but my decision to dislike the albums back then was largely based on music. The music featured in those albums just failed to hook me as a frequent and faithful listener. In fact, even if they had created music that sounds like Grand Funk Railroad or Uriah Heep, yet heavily laden with catchy melodies, I might view their music from the two albums in a positive manner.

When I look back at the context behind the release of Load and ReLoad around a decade ago, I can understand the direction taken by Metallica back in the 1990's. The music climate in 1990's was changing so Metallica needs to change in order to stay relevant. Of course we can debate inconclusively about whether the change was appropriate to Metallica's image and stature in the heavy metal world. Nevertheless, Metallica's 1990's output still enabled Metallica to remain in the consciousness of the music-listening public, in spite of the media's claims that "heavy metal is dead!". Like it or not, by rerouting to remain 'relevant' in the music business, Metallica enabled metal to stay barely alive in the face of grunge onslaught. So, even though metal music revival in the late 1990's was caused by newly emerged bands from newly created and labelled metal genres, one cannot deny the important role played by Metallica to ensure that "heavy metal" still remains within public consciousness and hence facilitated the metal music revival... even though some or many people may claim, erroneously or not, that Metallica "is no longer metal" in 1990s.

 

[super_punk]

metallica never really liked being called thrash anyway. anyway who gives a shit. just buy the album and not download it otherwise the ulrich internet cops are comin to getcha

 

[visa]

haha. how would any of us honestly know what metallica likes or does not like?

 

[Ized]

metallica never really liked being called thrash anyway. anyway who gives a shit. just buy the album and not download it otherwise the ulrich internet cops are comin to getcha

haha Lar$........are you there? hahhahha