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Metallica - New Album

Something for the Metallica fans still out there....

Mission Metallica is an official site bringing you snippets from the new album, behind the scene glimpses from the recording studio, various other random videos, old photos, live concert recordings etc. all for free.

I've got platinum access to the site however I'm not sure what extra that gives me over standard access but I've taken a snippet from the main trailer for the site which reveals some riffs from a few of the new songs they've recorded (I don't know whether they'll end up on the album though).

It's certainly going to be better than St. Anger from the sounds of it but they're putting a lot of pressure on themselves by building up the hype and saying they're going back to their old school style (they've gone back to standard tuning, the snare drum has been tightened back up and the solos are back at least).

I'll just sit back and wait for the "Metallica have sucked since 198x" comments.

You mean "Shit" Anger. Worse fucking album ever. I hope to god this one is their redemption.

After the Black Album things went downhill though Load and Reload have a few great tracks.

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Guitar work is still on point, Metallica in general just hasn't done it for me for a long time, lyrically they used to kill and now it's like 'meh' (least for me). Kind of glad they're still doing their thing I guess. :|

havent listened to em since cliff....and fuck lars

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I just don't believe them anymore. St. Anger sounded like the band recorded their tracks, then james recorded vocals on his yacht, sipping martinis and still trying to sound rough.

When I want metal, I'll stick to Dethklok.

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Originally posted by Dwaggy
Thats alot of words for someone that sells DVDs out of the back of a truck

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Four negative replies but only two downloads of the sample.

I like a LOT of variety in my music and listen to all kinds of shit from DnB, metal, rock, dance, acid, punk, blues, classical etc. so I can somewhat appreciate the various changes in direction they've taken and still enjoy it (well, a fair portion of it anyways). I agree that their recent albums have been somewhat lacking but I'm quietly confident that they'll put something out that will blow the previous few albums out of the water (even if that isn't exactly setting the bar that high).

I can handle any Metallica album but St. Anger. Which imo was atrocious.

bull... there were at least two descent tracks on St. Anger....

I look forward to any metallica. Their drums and guitars.... damn g.

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Originally posted by LOLobo
I look forward to any metallica. Their drums and guitars.... damn g.

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Originally posted by ZootedLooter
havent listened to em since cliff....and fuck lars

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Nice to see RIck Ruben producing. He'll kick their whiny sellout asses and make another album that sounds more like Master of Puppets and less like the drivel that they have put out the last 18 years.

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New album title is "Death Magnetic" and it'll be out in September.

I listened to the clip. They're still in the same toilet since 1991.
Lars is a HUGE fag and should quit pretending to drum since he is too old to kick. He should start a bon jovi cover band.

The rest need to get back on hard drugs and alcohol. It's their only hope.

i never said i didnt respect or like metallica......i just said i havent listened to em since cliff...one of the bars i regulared(every night) had all the albums(except cliffs) on the jukebox and it drove me nuts all night long....i used to put in 5 bux just to play Story of the Clash 2 disc set just to piss off all the metalheads....so its not the metallica so to speak....i was just tired of hearing the same shit all night long

but now i guess i my musical tastes progressed past em....once i hear hetfields (polished) voice i lose interest....i still love the first 2(no not 3)

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looter n. : someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war) [syn: plunderer, pillager, spoiler, despoiler, raider, freebooter]

One of my mates hosts a huge bbq once a year and many of us can play guitar so there's usually half a dozen acoustics lying around the garden and a few electrics indoors so we inevitably end up jamming.

Knowing many of their dislikes for "new" Metallica (i.e. post Black album), I used to whip out a verse and a chorus from some of the lesser known Load/Reload songs and they responded excellently asking me what band/songs they were from so they could listen to the studio recordings. When I said which band and which album(s), they did a complete U-turn and said "pah, I don't listen to those albums - they're shit".

I don't mind what people's views are of Metallica. I enjoy most of their work, they still kick ass live and I enjoy jamming along to their music with my guitars (it's one of my biggest stress relievers - second to wanking) although admittedly I do tend to jam along to the older work mainly.

The tracklist for the new album has been announced and here are the tracks in playlist order.....

That Was Just Your Life
The End Of The Line
Broken, Beat & Scarred
The Day That Never Comes
All Nightmare Long
Cyanide
The Unforgiven III
The Judas Kiss
Suicide & Redemption
My Apocalypse

I may just have to give this a listen.

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Going to see them next month , hopefully they play a couple of tracks off the new album.

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I was never a big fan of load/reload when they came out, I think I was listening to newer bands around the time (Machine Head, Snot, One Minute Silence, SoaD) but I can listen to those albums now and enjoy them for what they are, rock albums but not thrash like their early stuff.

That snippet sounds promising but it's hard to judge what the new album will sound like, they should release a single before Reading/Leeds then play the song live. I remember way back at Donington '95 they played '2x4' and it didn't go down too well as no one had heard it before, I also remember James having a really bad mullet that day.

What I'm hoping for from the new album is some hi-tempo songs that don't go into a halftime feel once the intro finishes and a few long-ass solos with a decent structure, which Kirk was known for, solos like 'Creeping Death' & 'Shortest Straw'. I hope he cuts back a bit on the wah as well, I like wah solo's but he over used it on the black album. Saying that, any kind of solo will be nice compared to the absense of them on St. Anger.

I'm happy Rick Rubin is producing the album, he's worked on some of my favourite heavy/thrash albums so I'm pretty confident he'll get a good sound out of them, but it's up to band to deliver some good tunes as well.

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Originally posted by valvehead
I can listen to those albums now and enjoy them for what they are, rock albums but not thrash like their early stuff.

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