Metallica - Death Magnetic reviews
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| Thephoenix |
 It’s hard to say who detests Metallica more: the post–“Black Album”/post-therapy bandmembers themselves (if their lyrics are to be believed), or their fans, whose twisted hate of their idols could be said to exceed the self-hate of the men in black. Since Metallica’s albums tend to be spaced apart by half a decade, each new record has been, for the faithful, a frustrating game of Lucy-pulling-the-football-away-from-Charlie-Brown: first the agony-inducing bummer that was the double dose of Load and ReLoad, then the quizzical ugliness of group-therapy by-product St. Anger....full text |
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| Pastemagazine |
| Metallica’s last three albums have seen the band sink progressively deeper into schlocky grunge and nü-metal—an indignity magnified by big-screen depictions of egomania and creative exhaustion. For Death Magnetic, the group was tasked by production maven Rick Rubin to reverse course and recapture the raw vigor of their early work. The result is a superb return to form that refines familiar touchstones: riotous instrumentation, E-tuned guitar solos and robust melodies....full text |
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| Billboard |
| Metallica can't win for losing. Many of the band's fans still consider the gajillion-selling "Black Album" an unforgiven sellout that blazed the trail for years of Bob Seger covers and that Napster-based unpleasantness. Those fans are targeted squarely by "Death Magnetic," the long-threatened One That Sounds Like '80s Metallica Again. The bountiful 80 minutes are packed with titanic multipart epics that feature scary-looking song titles. They're all marked by Lars Ulrich's all-but-perfected stomp and the eyebrow-scorching virtuosity of James Hetfield, who roars about anger and self-flagellation, and Kirk Hammett, who conducts proton-collision experiments on tracks like "That Was Just Your Life" and the album's best, "Broken, Beat & Scarred....full text |
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