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I have mixed feelings about this album. It has obviously done well in the sense that the band have made a better album than their last "2003's St. Anger". This album is good, good concept, good riffs and lyrics, the only negative things I have to say is that the sound production at times can be too much to handle especially at loud volumes and it feels as though Metallica have just made an album for the fans and it doesn't sound like it came naturally either, it does feel forced. Firstly After the massive uproar after the album Load was released the band stated that they made music for themselves and if you didn't like it you should just stay away. Now it feels as though Metallica have made an album that is trying to imitate their old sound. A band should always do what they want and look to the future. Also the inclusion of The Unforgiven 3 is just clearly an advertising ploy since the Unforgiven and Unforgiven 2 songs were so popular. I would rather listen to a band doing what they want to do not backtracking to earn more money. But with that this album is good, worth a listen. It would have received four stars by the way if the sounds wasn't so terrible. There's only one Metallica album I have given 5 stars - Master of Puppets.
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Simply the worst production on any album I've heard. 10x worse than ...ajfa. Hugely ironic given the band's anti-piracy ranting. When I buy a cd I want to stick it in my hifi, turn it up, and enjoy it. Fat chance with this. Turning it up is out of the question. Better to get a low quality version where the clipping is less in your face.
4* for the music - it's pretty good although perhaps a little boring in places, but since I can't bear to listen to it that's not much good. On the odd occasion I persuade myself to give it another go it only takes me a few minutes before I simply can't stand to listen to it any more. God only knows what they thought it sounded like. It's pretty clear to me at this point that nobody in the band has any hearing left.
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I love this album, it's just what i like to hear, a new sound form metallica, and a good one to, may not apply to all metallica fan's, but it's certainly got my vote...It's not their best but it's a reasnably good album and deserve's 4 stars.
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Fans of loud, brutally honest metal give this a try if you haven't already done so. Thoroughly recommended.
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I know that many of you say that this is a classic album. And why? Because you haven't heard any other bands than Justin Timberlake and Metallic! And why so many say that band is called "Metallica"? That doesn't make sense! It's M-E-T-A-L-L-I-C! Metallic boys made this album because the record company wanted so. Metallic dudes are so old that they have plenty of money. I think it one of the people who made a joke that Metallic's gonna make a song "Unforgiven III". Well, it was true. Unfortunately! Why make three parts of that awful song. Each version has been worse than the earlier one. OK, this album has it's moments but they are "The Day That Never Comes" and "My Apocalypse". I think those were the two songs. Come on people, St. Anger, Load, Reload were terrible. "Black" was made for little girls. "Justice" had odd bass sound. The truth is that "Master of Puppets" and RTL were great but slow thrash metal. The debut was quite good too but the solos were bad. OK, it's a fact that nowadays even Britney Spears and Kylie Minogue are heavier than this band. Just listen to the records! I wonder why Rick Rubin produced this...thing! Awful! He has produced classics, such as "South of Heaven" from Slayer.
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