Metallica
 

THEY ARE BACK ON TOUR!!!!!

So are the rumors true that the new Basist used to play with Ozzy?

Linkin Park who I personally I'm all for, and I also praise their marketing guy for keeping them afloat for so long. They've been around for some 3 years now, and they managed to sell the same record twice and made millions!

Not such a big fan of Lame Bizkit anymore, just because Mr. Durst is a retard.

Deftones also on the lineup, been a fan of their's for years.

Gotta love summer!

yeap, Ozzy's former bass player is with Metallica, while Jason Newsted will tour with Ozzy during the summer. I got tickets for the concert in Ohio Stadium for July :)

Can't wait for MTV Idol in May, too.

according to a online magazine (which I cannot remmember the name of) Metallica's new album should be the best since master of puppets...

Hopefully they're right

yeap, supposedly the new one is gonna be back to the roots.

ST. ANGER REVIEW
Here is a review / report translated from the Swedish Close-up magazine and site
Close-up's Martin Carlsson leaves an exclusive report from the studio north of San Francisco where Metallica's working on their new album "St. Anger".

I swear on the bible, on my mother's grave or whatever - the following text is nothing less than the complete truth. This statement needs to be made, quite simply because you're probably not going to believe me. I almost wonder if I've really listened to the new Metallica album "St Anger" myself, or if somebody has been playing a trick on me and played me some new, exciting aggro-band. You see, "St. Anger" is a chock, one of music history's greatest! It is as if "Load" and "Reload" has been deleted from the map, as if the Black Album never existed, as if the Metallica we've come to know never really existed. The five songs (all of which are as of yet untitled but the title-track) I've heard exhibits a sound so EXTREME and raw that all you can do is sit there chocked with your jaw on the floor.

I'm not joking.

Twenty journalists are gathered in the control-room of the studio north of San Francisco. We get comfortable. The air is vibrating with excitement, and then? BAM!! The first song (working title: Frantic) kicks in with hypnotic, almost industrial Slayer-riffs. What the fuck is going on? "You live it or lie it", chants James Hetfield and goes on with "my lifestyle determines my death style". It is ultra-tight metalcore like it has never been performed before. Lars ulrich's fat drum-sound is replaced with an oilrig-similar snare that's usually reminiscent of robotic industry-metal. "Do I have the strength?", a wondering Hetfield screams in the middle of the chaos. It is a maddening Blitzkriegstrategy with attack-waves of battering riffs, attacking from every angle for five minutes and 54 seconds.

I'm not joking.

The war as just begun, and I really mean THE WAR, because this music would be the perfect soundtrack to the media coverage of the war on Iraq. The title-track blazes away with a ultra-fast bulldozermosh that leaves Max Cavalera far behind. We are talking monster-metallized punk from another planet; a twisted and overdosed Dischange just released from rehab! We are talking beyond sound-speed, especially regarding the drum-work. The double-bass pounds away mercilessly and Lars Ulrich's use of the snare are almost -get this!- blast-beats!! It's going to be interesting seeing him trying to repeat this live - if the dane is usually soaked from sweat and carried to the lodge after traditional concerts, then he's going to need an oxygen-mask and hospital personnel to wake him back to life after this. Following this amazing intro comes a softer part where Hetfield sings "St. Anger around my neck, he never gets respect." This ten second long part, recurring a couple of times in the seven minute and 24 second long song, is the only part that could be classified as soft. The Producer Bob Rock (also on bass) assures me that this is the calmest, most stripped-down part on the whole album. WOW! A riff similar to "Creeping Death" follows. Hetfield howls "Fuck it all and fucking no regrets" (an exact recapitulation of the classic in "Damage Inc."). Towards the end of the song he screams "I need to set my anger free"... and this is exactly what he and Metallica does: releasing all their anger.

I'm not joking.

Song number three starts up like an updated "Ride the Lightning": MEga-fat thrash-metal in midtempo speed. The vocalist spits: "It and you can look out motherfuckers, here I come!". Sepultura's "Roots"-era sound reminiscent in this song, with the refrain "It world" repeated again and again. Before the song ends at five minutes and 51 seconds, Hetfield shouts "enough, enough, enough"

I'm not joking.

Have you missed the complex song-structures of "And Justice for All"? Compared to this around eight minutes long piece (working title "Monster"), the songs of the 1988 album seem more like simple Ramones' ditties. A progressive blanket of sound that warms like a massive and super-intricate Tool, only a thousand times heavier! Hetfield chants over a delicious part that goes into what could be called a chorus with some use of fantasy: "We the people, are we the people?". This phrase is repeated two times and "some kind of monster" three times before the singer concludes "this monster lives". There is actually something here that could be called groove, not entirely unlike Pantera although vastly heavier. The guitars are so damned insane, so damned evil, so damned incredible! The fact is that there isn't anything remotely like a traditional guitar-solo in any of these five songs. Hetfield and Kirk Hammett use their instruments like surgical tools. The guitars shrieks and scream as if Tom Morello and Kerry King made a deal and decided to take the Devil's music not one but ten steps further.

I'm not joking.

The most wicked part is however the last, whose working-name is "All Within My Hands". A very strange piece with an instrumental intro of one minute and fifteen seconds. The tempo is ultra-fast, taking so many twists and turns that you get all dizzy. "All Within My Hands" is shouted and then sung in an Alice In Chains manner. And the ending? MAN OH MAN! Like a possessed madman Hetfield screams "Kill kill kill kill!!" ad absurdum - we're talking deranged shrieks coming from a psychopathic Tom Araya (think Slayer's "Kill Again" only even more insane). You'd think it was over after that. But no. It is like watching an exciting thriller with so many surprises that you finally don't believe an ending is forthcoming. Yes, after a heavy-as-lead finale it winds down at eight minutes and 55 seconds.

I'm not joking.

20 Journalists finally leave the control-room and look at each other. No one needs say anything; the looks say it all: What in god's name have we just experienced? That Metallica, once tired old farts, have made a complete 180, and now sound like a bunch of hormone-reeking bucks in heat, is the most incredible thing that's happened in music history. "St. Anger" is the real "Reload". "St. Anger" doesn't sound like anything the group has done before, it hardly even sounds like Metallica. "St. Anger" is a modern, super-brutal metal-album that is going to chock and knock the entire music world. Melodies? Nope, there's not much here that reminds one of traditional melodies or arrangements such as verse, bridge, chorus. The 10th of June could become known as the day that shook the world. If you haven't catched on yet:

I'm not joking.

Martin Carlsson Source: Close Up Magazine

BADASS!

When it was announced on the Metallica website that Jason Newsted was leaving the band, he said in his statement that he could not even hold a bass w/o pain.

I have not even tried to keep up with them news wise but was this a bunch of Crap or truth?

:question

SOOOO SWEEEET argh, I can't fucking wait to get the CD....


I wonder if there's a leeked version out there...

check out metallica.com and signup and login to their "jump in the studio" tons of videos and shit of them in the studio. chat / messageboard.

dude, kazaa has massive leeks!!!!



SSSSWWWWWWWWWWWWWWEEEEEEEEEEEEETTT sounds great

Best since master of puppets. cmon now.

I bet they add a dj.

Metallica doesnt like mp3. Metallica bad. Metallica gay.

Labret, download it off Kazaa. Sounds incredible IMO

a lot of these leeks are fake.

That sounds promising! http://www.jms101.btinternet.co.uk/f...td/drummer.gif

I guess I'll have to satisfy my needs with In Flames until then... :Graucho

Fuck Newstead, He's talking trash about Metallica all the time in interviews it seems.

VoiVod can blow metallica off the stage?...I hardly think not

Metallica selling out everywhere they play, HUGE arenas...

VoiVod, playing local bars?

Jason, lay off the crack man, you were hired help after cliff died, thats all....

Chains of Pain

sounds pretty badass.. sounds like the pantera singer though.

not sure if thats them.

Remind me never to trust you again.

Granted, not as gay as anything post And Justice, but as good as Master of Puppets?

Seriously, its time to hang up the guitars you corporate cock gobblers, you lost all credibility long ago.

Smooth move alienating your cattle fan base with some psuedo thrash wannabe crap. Your average 16 year old girl wont like this, and as that is your fan base now... goodbye. You deserve what you get. fags.

i listen to it for the music, i could give a shit about their personalities / attitudes. if it sounds good i'll listen to it.

Is there a playlist for their Summer tour??

I know they will blow us all away as usual.. here comes Metallica show number 9 for me.

:thefinger

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Whatever Labret, I certainly respect your opinons... but you won't be able to convince me that this album won't kick ass.

what he said!

RIGHT ON GARY!

:thumbsup

What are the names of the songs you guys are downloading off of Kazaa?

I'm downloading one now called Stomping Grounds, and while it does sound cool, I don't think it is even done by Metallica.

There's a big list of fakes on there as far as I can tell.

someone post a mp3

SEEK AND DESTROY!

Lemme decode that. "If I hear it enough times on MTV, I'll like it".

Music just means more to some of us.

No big whoop, the corporate music industry needs people like you in order to survive. Someone has to like the pulp.

Not a fan of MTV.
Fan of Metallica, old and new, because of the music style and sound.
Could give a fuck what a band says or thinks, as long as the music is good, keep it coming.


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Ya know peeps, if you don't listen to some underground death metal / punk bands, then you're not worthy calling anything else good music. Say it ain't so Labret.

Fuck, I've been listening to Metallica since I was 12 years old, and yes, it means a lot more to me than some fucking teen groupie fan jerking off to pics of Justin Timberlake.

I've gotten all their albums, listen to all of them religiously, some more some less.

The fact that MTV plays it? So fucking what. I wonder how often they will play the new album if it ends up being as fast and raw as described above.

Don't assume everyone that still likes Metallica is an MTV follower.

Ya, they went to shit and Lars needs to have his tongue cut out, but some of us still like them because of the years of enjoyment they provided.

I still remember the day I bought this. I don't even have a working cassette deck anymore (replaced everything with CDs) but I hold onto these because of sentimental value.

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I'm not ashamed to say I hope their new album doesn't suck.

Is that all I listen to?

I dont even listen to death metal. Stop talking about genres you know nothing about let alone identify.

Stop crying and enjoy your Metallica revival with the rest of the herd.

Yeap, I'll gladly join in like a blind goat.


I dunno, you tell me. Anything of mainstream value in your bookshelf?

WOAH! Mint condition tape!

:thumbsup

I had the original Kill Em All on Banzai too but it got ate long ago.

Mainstream? You mean Top40? No. Why would there be? If its on tv or the radio or made for mass consumption it is without value. Only to be despised. Top40 is a fucking insult.

Does everything outside of the two genres you listed have to be mainstream?

I listen to everything from classical and ska to goth leaning industrial to roots blues. None of it I am sure you have heard of anyways. Why? Its not on tv.

Isnt that a tragedy. So much good music out there that none of you will ever hear because your heads are so firmly entrenched up your asses.

its not my fault you lack perspective or taste.

Check these fuckers out. I've got to get them transferred to CD before they crumble.

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:glugglug

niiiiiiice

Top40 is shit, you're right. Voted by demented teenagers who have no idea about what music is all about. Nowadays we're dealing with looks and computer beats rather than mastering e-guitars like once Hendrix did.


No, those two simply popped to my mind. There's certainly far more out there that I wouldn't consider mainstream.

Glad you think I am that shallow. I do listen to genres and bands that few have heard before as well, just because I do appreciate music and I listen to it because I like it, and not because the media tells me to.

But hey, if you consider Metallica fans brainless mediaguided idiots, it's sure as hell your right to do so. :)

SO FUCKIN WHAT!

I'm looking forward to the new ablum. Some of those studio clips actually looked pretty promising.