New Metallica!!!!

[RR05xx]

Just heard Frantic on youtube. Worse than I remembered LOL!

[eakinj]

I bought the new album (I did heard most of the tracks before hand) I really like it. I really did track 3 (whatever it's called) some of the riffs in that song are killer, though the solo reminds me of other KM solos. I like Judas Kiss a lot. I'm not really approaching the album as a metallica album, because that band I remember is long gone. I like this for what it is, it's a pretty solid album. Lyrics.... dunno... some of them are pretty lame, others are really good. the album has a lot of hits and misses.

Btw, the only track I have been able to find by Cirith Ungol is called Black machine. not sure if that's actually them or not.

[skorb]

I like it. a lot.
there's good aggression going on there, but still very musical.

I'm old school, loved their first 3 albums, but they lost me at AJFA. I was very disappointed in that one. ever since then I've been skeptical.

Death Magnetic is their best release since MOP. easy. and KH's playing is better than usual too. as is Lars'.

gotta give em credit where it's due man.

[JetFixxxer]

I like all their releases.....

[horns666]

Could someone please try to find Cirith Ungol's 1982's "finger of scorn"..Metallica fans will be amazed what they'll here.

I can't find it anywhere..I think Metallica has it prohibited or something.

[JetFixxxer]

Could someone please try to find Cirith Ungol's 1982's "finger of scorn"..Metallica fans will be amazed what they'll here.

I can't find it anywhere..I think Metallica has it prohibited or something.

Why is that?

[horns666]

You just gotta hear it. Lars was huge metal fan as a kid and loved Holocaust, Diamond Head, Venom, Angelwitch ect..but Cirith's Ungol is the most obvious. It could be on Master Of Puppets, and basically is. Most CU songs are on youtube but THAT one. Maybe lars and co. don't want to reveal THAT creative source.

I went to get my tooth pulled and Metallica's new stuff was on the radio the entire time going there and coming back. It sounds like 1996 "Down" and 1998 Frozen" era Sentenced big time IMO! There's another swedish band called Am I Blood that any Metallica fan should love. There's alot bands that picked up the torch they fumbled after black, and ran with it. I mentioned a few bands..check 'em out.

[toejam]

The new Metallica sounds like ass... it's too compressed and has a whole lot of digital distortion/clipping going on. Not only did Endrik analyze it in the other thread, but here's some more info about it.

http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/09/does-metallicas.html

[åron]

Certainly not the first cd to be ruined by such tactics and definitely won't be the last. The overcompressed sound tempts the engineer to push the limit and some do it better than others. At a certain point, the artist and producer need to reckon with the end product and actually test out the disc. That they let this one go out so poor and shipped tons all over the world leaves me wondering if they and their crew are all just too lazy or too deaf at this point to care. The cockknockers should remix (call in Rasmussen now), remaster and give the damn thing away online - or make the price dirt cheap. Anything less than that is just one more slap in the face.

[horns666]

Why did they do that. That's terrible, to support and buy their product and have it all fucked up like that..WTF?

They're too damn huge to have quality control issues..you'd think!

Of all the cds I bought, I never experience or heard about this kinda shit before..I'd be pissed!

[horns666]

So anyone find that Cirith Ungol song "Finger of scorn" yet..That singer is terrible. But the long intro/outro and progression must be heard by any Metallica fan IMO!

[toejam]

I've seen the lyrics of Finger of Scorn online, but couldn't find the song.

[horns666]

Even Metallica fans think the music's too loud

Tue Sep 30, 2008 12:43AM EDT
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Has the ritualistic cranking up of the volume of music tracks finally reached a tipping point? Now many of the fans of heavy metal outfit Metallica are complaining that the band's latest effort, Death Magnetic, is too simply loud. And yes, that's a bad thing.
I last wrote about the loudness issue in June 2007, where I outlined the common complaints about audio tracks that have been bothering audiophiles for decades. To recap: The problem stems from pushing the overall audio levels on a track as high as possible. While volume is increased, variation is diminished. This means that while a track is nice and loud, its details are lost. After all, in a digital track, there's only so much room for data in the finite number of bits available on a CD, so something has to go. But no one wants to have a song that's less loud than the next band on the rack... and so the cycle continues.
Now the disappointment has spread into the once-unassailable world of heavy metal, a genre where there's historically been no such thing as too loud. Metallica fans across the web are complaining, loudly, about the levels on Death Magnetic, saying the new album is so loud you "can't hear the details of the music" with one critique saying it is "barely listenable." An online petition has even turned up asking the band to remix the album at a lower overall volume.
In a recent interview with Blender magazine, Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich addressed Web critics by saying that, "... there's nothing up with the sound quality. It's 2008, and that's how we make records. [Producer] Rick Rubin's whole thing is to try and get it to sound lively, to get it to sound loud, to get it to sound exciting, to get it to jump out of the speakers."
He also adds that on the Web, people become more vocal, especially when it comes to negative viewpoints. "The Internet gives everybody a voice, and the Internet has a tendency to give the complainers a louder voice," says Ulrich. "Part of being in Metallica is that there's always somebody who's got a problem with something that you're doing."
The Wall Street Journal has helpfully offered an interactive system where you can see and (more importantly) hear, head to head, what the fuss is all about. Twenty years ago, the music thrashed as furiously as anything and it's so loud I turned down my PC's audio to get it to a comfortable level. Today's track is absurdly loud right from the start, and you can easily hear how mushy the bass and drums sound. They may as well be static.
Despite all of the complaints, Metallica's Death Magnetic currently reigns at the top of The Billboard Charts. But who's to blame for all of the noise? Guns N' Roses, if the Journal is to be believed, was the first to start cranking up the audio, back in 1987. Bands have been on a quest to one-up each other ever since.
Now it seems like we're reaching the limits of big audio, lest every song devolve into a buzzing puddle of gruel. But bands keep trying, mixers push back the best they can... and consumers get caught in the crossfire.
Read the full tale here.

[Guyver1]

i Got the Guitar Hero 3 version, so much better

[jdr94]

metallica '85 - true metal
metallica '08 - trend