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The Time We Saved Metallica
Monday, September 29, 2008Posted by
Sim
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The days leading up to September 12th were intense. For one thing it was eerilie close to America's most popular public holiday, but more importantly it was the New Zealand release date of Metallica's latest album, Death Magnetic.
Their last album, St. Anger, was released in 2003 and was an absolute disaster - the majority of critics and fans agreeing that the band just didn't get their sex on, and "just delivered what they could scrounge together before the deadline". So any new effort of theirs would have to be a redemption piece.
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They have announced several album release dates since then, but its been 5 long years for Metallica fans to receive the album that never comes.
I've downloaded (I mean...bought...I'm not a pirate) the album, and decided to check it out.
I turned off my audioscrobbler, so Metallica wouldn't show up on my Last.fm (I wanted to keep my scrobbles safe in case this album was St. Anger 2.0).
The first song I listened to was Cyanide, which they played months before the album release at a live concert (thanks Matt for the link). Then after checking out their first single, The Day That Never Comes, I felt I had an idea of how I felt about this album. It was decent. Better than St. Anger by many metric kilometers, but they still haven't gone back to the hieghts of their 80's thrash supremacy (and most likely they never will).
I will reccomend this album to Metallica fans (who probably don't my reccomendation to get it) and people who want to listen to some thrash metal by those who once defined the genre.
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