Comments on: So there’s a new Metallica album, hey….

By: goatlady

goatlady — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 08:59:27 +0000

@sebastian you know, I reckon you’re about right. And this album is growing on me a little after repeated listens (Dave is actually liking it quite a it), although I still think there’s a bit too much filler on it.

Also, I bet for their next release they do an about-turn on the audio quality issue. Cos it seems to take a few years for them to work out that public opinion is generally about right.

By: sebastian

sebastian — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:10:27 +0000

Being and old school Metallica fan for years as well as a metal guitarist, I too was let down by recent albums, however, after hearing the new album, which I must admit grabbed me with some solid riffs, I feel Metallica are peeling away the layers of caked up dust and polishing themselves off again with this album; although not there yet. It’s like a junkie returning back to normal life, it takes awhile once you have accepted that your are no longer the same person but will return to that person; it takes a bit to get back all that was lost. Well that is the same with this album. Metallica are once again thinking heavy, writing heavy, and should they continue down this path, they quite possibly might return to us with a badass heavy metal album. Once a metal head always a metal head no matter how much you stray. It’s in their blood. I would not write them off yet. It’s easy to be a rolling stones in your mid fourties, but to be a Metallica circa ’86 well that takes a hell of a lot more and I see with this new album that they are once again thinking heavy which is the first step in returning back to what you do best.

By: Joshua

Joshua — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 22:33:00 +0000

“Broken, Beat & Scarred” was pretty good.

By: Siksie

Siksie — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 04:23:41 +0000

just heard the full album, and its boring tbh… utterly boring. Nothing sticks, its just another album with boring songs

By: mo79uk

mo79uk — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 13:02:09 +0000

I got into Black first as a young teen, and while I thought it was a way to get people to look at their older albums I soon realised it was a stepping stone to the Loads.

By: Lee

Lee — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 03:50:25 +0000

I thought the exact same thing (though I probably prefer the Black album myself – it’s what I was introduced to).

By: Gary Barber

Gary Barber — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 03:41:20 +0000

I have just listen to it, in full, previously I killed the stream at the 1 minute mark. I’m very critical of music, a song gets a series of go / no go time markers with me. They are at 15sec, 30 sec, 1 minute. Get past 1 minute and I will listen to the end. Metallica in this case only made it to 1 minute. It was just a half baked grab at former highs of metal magic. I agree in part, except for me only the last minute or so was anything but just average. Metallica are now like a bad metal dodge pub band. Sorry guys, Kay you are being too kind!