The question is, will anyone want to download it? No sooner than we trudged through the desert and Metallica’s Thomas Vinterberg-directed “The Day That Never Comes” recruitment clip and mentioned that metallica.com is currently streaming “Cyanide” (which we first saw/heard live) than we have more new Death Magnetic tunes to depress us. This past weekend a friend lamented to me (at great length) that Metallica were his favorite band for the majority of his youth — see Kill ‘Em All thru The Black Album for him (…And Justice For All for me) — but that the longer they go on, the more he feels embarrassed for them and himself. That said, if “My Apocalypse” wasn’t more than enough to get that blush going, here’s “The Unforgiven III,” the instrumental “Suicide & Redemption,” “The Judas Kiss,” and “All Nightmare Long.” Check out the vocal effect on the first one.
“The Unforgiven III”
“Suicide & Redemption”
“The Judas Kiss”
“All Nightmare Long”
All nightmare long is about right.
Death Magnetic is out 9/12.
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iron maiden, sucker, only, iron maiden
Luck. Runs. Out.
“Unforgiven III” sounds like any past /m\ – minus the old lady yodel. I’m sure this is an insta-chub for someone on this sad, sad planet.
It’ll be great to see how poorly received this album will be when it finally comes out. After their last record was widely considered to be one of the worst albums of all time, there’s no reason why the follow up should be this fucking bad. This album is going to destroy what’s left of Metallica’s credibility. Hilarious.
Listened to it today – it’s not a classic but it’s actually pretty good, especially the first half. All you old-school fans need to just accept that you’re never going to hear Ride the Lightning II and move on.
The Metallica saga is so fucking entertaining. Back when everyone loved the band, I barely paid any attention to them. But after a decade of one horrendous fan-alienating Metallica album after another, I can’t look away. It’s like some kind of real life Spinal Tap.
“. . .the longer they go on, the more he feels embarrassed for them and himself.” Yeah, you’re right about Weez– Oh wait, this is about Metallica.
Metallica is the only band that makes Weezer’s current situation less painfu-…
Okay, maybe not.
It is not bad, but it is not great either. It sounds like they went and listened to their early stuff and tried to mimic it. The problem with their sound is that they are too polished. Their sound used to be slightly rough around the edges pre-Black album. This shit sounds way to close to have of the garbage that is on Hard Rock radio now days. They will never be the same again and everyone needs to accept that. Jason was the last piece of heart that they had left. When he left the band officially died.
Good post. Couldn’t have said it better myself. I wanted this to be good, but it’s just not. Better than St. Anger musically, but perhaps even less inspired.
I’ve been talking shit on Metallica since Load and I was still talking shit when the first couple tracks from this album came out. That said I listened to the leaked tracks on YouTube and some of them are pretty good, not great, but good. The Judas Kiss is a decent song and so is Broken, Beat, and Scarred. Granted some of the tracks are just awful but at least it’s nice to know they are still somewhat capable of writing a metal track.
Nice album cover a-holes. You’ve even turned death into a pussy.
HaHA!
not to hip to anything after “and justice for all” I too grew up with them but feel they need to go out while they still have any fans. Will give props to “suicide and redemtion” good guitar work. More old school.
iron maiden, sucker, only – oh wait, sorry I got caught up for a second.
so, it leaked or did only some of the tunes leak? way to make things crystal clear.
ok, stereogum, final warning: NO MORE METALLICA. this is your last chance.
While I was listening to it, it was so bad I forgot that I could listen to anything else. My whole body just shut down as I was pounded by waves of nothing. Oof.
but i thought you guys gave this album four stars!
wait, isn’t this rolling stone?
I’m sure the album is mediocre to say the least, but it doesn’t matter people are still going to shit on Metallica. If their sound was exactly the same as it was in 86 people would be complaining that they sound the same. Metal changed and so did they. The black album was the end of Metallica. Mainstream exposure and the pressure to stay on top killed them. Music is a double edge sword, either you quit when your on top or slowly lose your fan base by each new album. I guess you can tell what route they took. By they way, fuck you Stereogum… I like how you hype shit then trash it.
Sigh… Get over yourselves people. I know it hasn’t been cool to like Metallica since Justice but I at least thought you could suck it up and realize the album is good. You don’t even have to love it like i do but this is some of the best playing of their career. I forgot Kirk was that good and I’ve never heard Hetfield play guitar parts like that. I’m just really fucking sick of the trashing Metallica is cool thing. Way too predictable and not the least bit insightful.
looks as though someone forget to remind you to get over yourself — again — this morning.
Really everyone really is talking this much shit? This album is very good and a great entry by these old dudes. When bloggers get old and uncool and the kids think they are geriatric, Metallica will still be a respected band.
Its ok to like old bands even if they don’t break up, its ok.
“And the driving force behind its invincibility seemed to be the fact that the band did not care about anything. It fueled its tours on Jagermeister. (Hetfield used to drink a bottle every night.) The members ”betrayed” their fan base in 1996 by cutting off their hair, the speed-metal equivalent of Dylan going electric. When kids started illegally downloading Metallica songs off Napster, the band had the audacity to threaten to sue its own fan base. Metallica actually did what other rock bands only aspire to do: by ignoring trends, it became immune to cultural change.”
This is exactly how I feel about the Smashing Pumpkins. I am a bit embarassed for/of them, but I really was/am (?) into them until the break-up (Though “Machina” really threw me off a bit).
Really? I thought Machina was several times the album “Adore” was. About half of that album is incredibly good, and the other half isn’t bad.
IMHO I think that Metallica Should have hung it up after the Black album, and then came out of retirement to do S&M, and then hung it up again…this time permanently.
seriously why is this site still talking about metallica
this is exactly what i would expect metallica to sound like if i was banging my head to them in ’86, all nightmare long is pretty damn good, as is judas kiss….the reason it’s getting lambasted here is because this is hardly the group of people who would enjoy music like this, or even try to understand why other people might like this music…it sucks to the indie kids, so if you actually like it, you must suck too….stereogum shouldn’t even bother wasting their time if they already know what the kids are going to think….just stop talking metallica Sgum
Is it just me, or does the cover look like a robot’s vagina?
Get off Metallica’s backs u haters. (Bet all u love these shitty metal bands who just scream random shit n r straight edge. They all wud all sell out them selfs but no 1 in the nmainstream r intrested, so they will always be destined 2 be earing $50 a nite rather than$50,000) true they av been shit since 91 but the stuff of Death magnetic is the best ive heard since then and the first 3 maybe 4 albums r MASTER pieces!!!
What? I read each of your three identical posts and I still can’t decipher what you typed.
Seriously… Where do these people come from? I’m trying to make some valid points on the awesomeness of the new album and you’re making it impossible
Am I missing something? I am two songs, and this is the best stuff I’ve heard from them in well over a decade….
After listening to the full album….the first half actually isn’t that bad…Although hetfields singing/lyrics are exceptionally painful at points.
I agree with the last few posters. It’s a pretty decent record, especially the first few songs. They’ve chosen to sample the last few here, which is a little unfortunate.
I guess I can see why someone wouldn’t like any of this, but not people who generally like Metallica. If you’ve liked anything after Master of Puppets and you absolutely hate this, I really don’t get it. It’s a polished production, but that only puts it somewhere between Justice and the Black Album.
When they made Unforgiven 2 I was, like everyone else, saying to myself “what the fuck, why?”. So the question returns again, only in capital letters. WHAT THE FUCK WHY?
The obvious answer: $$$
Metallica is what a band should never become, and that is great at the beginning but a sell out, bland commercial garbage band in the end. I speculate this is also the kind of band The Beatles would’ve become had they not broken up. God bless you, Yoko.
Oh my god the moment Hetfield starts singing in Unforgiven III…. spew.
Am I the only one who liked Load and Reload? It was on those two album’s that the band (and especially Hetfield) sounded most comfortable. Those two most certainly weren’t ‘Lightning or ‘Puppets, but you could they were making the music they wanted to make and it all sounded…natural, for lack of a better word.
The new album — and St. Anger before it — are painfully forced attempts to appease their fans, and it shows. I honestly like bands who just play what they want to play. *shrug*
i kind of agree. load and reload are by no means great awesome albums but in a way (this sounds ridiculous but i got to take a shot at this) they kind of (kind of) successfully reinvented their sound into this weird swinging country-metal. thus hardcore fans felt let down by the slowed tempos and a typical verse-chorus-verse-kirk-guitar-solo structure. plus james was actually singing.
i cant stand any metallica albums anymore though
on parts of Unforgiven Pt. 9, Hetfield kinda sounds like he really enjoys Bille Joe Armstrong’s voice…
I miss Cliff. They’d never have become a bad joke if Cliff had still been around. Watching them play on the ‘Master of Puppets’ tour was breathtaking – they were like a perfectly tuned engine. Fast, technically flawless, all the parts meshing. I’ve never seen a band so lean and tight, before or since.
Sic transit gloria mundi.
you know what, you people bug the shit out of me. Realize that these guys evolved with the times, sure we wont have anothe rblack album, or ride the lightning, but they want to try something new every album not stick to their old stuff just to keep assholes like you happy. And the whole napster thing? sure, let’s get pissed at them because no one asked their permission to spread their time laboured music into the public domain illegally. Dont bash the new album just because you think you’re all “die hard” and shit. Grow up. Cuz they have.
ya, I liked load and reload as well. Especially Devil’s Dance.
Well, it is cool to bash metallica nowadays but with good reason. I mean, this is just terrible. It sounds like some angry 10 year old kids, the riffs sound like all the other trash these new bands play now (played for 7 years, its garbage). No melody…no enthusiasm..blah.
What’s wrong with some of you people?
I’m one of the Metallica old-schoolers. To me Metallica stopped being after Black. I honestly thought Death Magnetic would suck like the other albums did. Maybe I missed something. I haven’t even given the other albums since Black a listen – the videos were terrible enough. Honestly, I loath all that Metallica has become.
But I got this album anyway. I reckon if you don’t like this that a) you haven’t listened to it yet and you are just posting for the shit of it or b) you never actually listened to the epics that are Ride the Lightning and Kill ‘Em All (or c – you’re that fuckwit fan who actually liked nothing other than Justice and Black, nevermind that Master of Puppets is their REAL magnum opus). Yes, it’s not quite the old Metallica, but even Justice and Black didn’t have as much thrash as DM delivers.
Sure, there are some weak tracks, but the opening songs is vintage Metallica and all first five songs are, let’s be honest, rock solid. Even All Nightmare Long breaks into a energy bang-fest you didn’t even hear on Justice and Black.
Welcome back, Metallica- it’s been way too fucking long. Finally we can remember why once all roads led to Metallica.
Yeah I don’t understand some of your people. Other than some bad lyrics, some weird drums, and a few weak tracks, this rly is a good album. I think your too clouded with prejudgment. I mean srsly if they learn from the mistakes that they did make on this album and make another it could be truly epic.
who the fuck cares about their new album ? who the fuck has cared since justice was released ??????????????????????
They should have tried to make something on thrash metal… but got into the thrash bin instead :-(
I thought all new albums were supposed to come out on Tuesdays…what gives? Is Metallica still big enough to warrant the special treatment?
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My Two Cents: I think The two Era’s of metallica were brilliant. Pre Black was impressive and RIde is my fav album. Post black was brilliantly mature and heavy but not trashy. the way i liked it. Black was an epitome in metal history. every song was and is a masterpiece.
St. anger: well the less said the better. It made me wanna puke.
Now Death Magnetic: the album cover is wicked till someone pointed out the pussy aspect. The Record however is not completely lost but a li’l vague here and there. I loved broke,beat and scarred. Unforgiven 3 was brilliant. the Instrumental suicide and redemption is tight and top notch. And other songs were right there minus pointless solos in couple of them and some vague lyrics.
I’d give it a 3.5/5. A metallica album worthy to listen to and not detract immediately
i did a song by song narrative of how i felt when i first listened to the album when it was leaked, i got a lot of fanboys chewing my head off for it because i expressed how disappointed i was with the album.
you can see my “review” here http://geekzkrieg.com/metallicas-death-magnetic-reviewed/
5 songs in and this album kicks, f’ing ass!!! Any of you kids ever heard a real stereo system? You know with speakers and high watt amplification? Oh, nifty little headphones? I see. Kind of hard to feel it in your f’ing soul then. Go buy a real live sound system and then tell me this doesn’t kick in your face!! Metallica rules the metal world once again. For those who disagree, Death is pulling you near….don’t fight it…. go now!!
its an attempt to get 86′ back.sad to say.. but its not gonna happen without cliff..cliff was a big part in the music back then.. clif’s music came out naturaly … melody and riffs… there nothing “hey lets put this note here..it sounds badder” kind of thing