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| Rating: 5 |
Music:3
Vocals:7
Lyrics:5
Melody:3
Production:8
Originality:3
CD Cover:9
My top 5:
1. Broken, Beat & Scarred
2. Cyanide
3. ?
4. ?
5. ?
Metallica are out of juice.They've got nothing left and they'll never reach what they had before.
Bad album.
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jpwiseguy - 24.04.2011 at 15:46
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Harsh...
I think it's a great album myself, but I agree it is not their best. However, I can really hear some of their influences in this one...bands like Misfits, Danzig, Mercyful Fate, Diamond Head, Black Sabbath. In fact, some of the melodic stuff Kirk does in this album sounds like it would fit right in on any of their mid - late 80's albums. I've been listening to Metallica since Ride the Lightning came out, and I honestly don't understand all of the Metallica hatered. Yes, they have fooled around with their style quite a bit over the last 20 years, and yes, St. Anger was sub-par, but what do you people expect? Master of Puppets over and over again for 25+ years? It is called expirimentation, and alot of great bands have done it at one point or another, successful or not. IMO, we have a big problem in metal nowadays, and this that alot of metal bands nowadays are a carbon copy of each other. There seems to be an endless sea of bands sticking to that tried and true, generic death metal growling and screaming accompanied by boring, simple guitar and drum work that only focuses on being as brutal sounding as possible (with the exception of few who I believe stand out above the rest: Arch Enemy, Opeth, Skeletonwitch, and Amon Amarth to just name a few), scared to wonder off the beaten path, or put any complexity of emotion into their music, and because of that, it is good to see Metallica is still around making music and touring.
Anyways, stay metal my friends... 
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 Lit. - 18.05.2011 at 17:58
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I listened to Load/Reload and a tiny bit of St. Anger, and I'll say:
Compared to their last couple of albums, Death Magnetic is tolerable and much better.
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| Rating: 10 |
This album is great comeback of Metallica, maybe some 'metalheads' told you, it's bad or worst album, but you know what?, it's bullshits. Make more than one quick listening and you'll see that Death Magnetic is really great album.
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| Rating: 7 |
It was a great comeback and this album horizontally and vertically is awesome!!! Now pretty scared of the new album which is due this year. Lets see how they' sounds??!!!! 
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| Rating: 8 |
Best Metallican album since the black album IMO
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Written by aerobat97 on 01.09.2011 at 19:16
Best Metallican album since the black album IMO
That's not so hard to achieve...
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Written by Death_95 on 06.10.2011 at 16:32
Underrated.
You're implying that it's good or something.
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Written by Troy Killjoy on 06.10.2011 at 19:50
Written by Death_95 on 06.10.2011 at 16:32
Underrated.
You're implying that it's good or something.
It gets such high reviews IMO because it has to be compared to the garbage they released in the 90's, on its own this album is nothing special. If it didn't have the words "Metallica" on it no one would give a shit.
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Written by @gent_-_orange on 07.10.2011 at 01:14
It gets such high reviews IMO because it has to be compared to the garbage they released in the 90's, on its own this album is nothing special. If it didn't have the words "Metallica" on it no one would give a shit.
I'd say it also gets a lot of unnecessary bashing just because the word "Metallica" is on it. Therefore, I think this album is overrated in certain quarters and unfairly maligned in others. When it comes to Metallica, they seem to incite very extreme reactions one way or the other. As somebody said to me not long ago, Metallica are in a position now that no matter what they release, it will be bashed in some quarters because of the level of hatred some metalheads have for them. And I completely agree with that.
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Written by Angelic Storm on 07.10.2011 at 01:44
I'd say it also gets a lot of unnecessary bashing just because the word "Metallica" is on it.
Exactly. It goes both ways, that's what happens when you make it big. You can never please everyone, but you can always disappoint someone.
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Written by Angelic Storm on 07.10.2011 at 01:44
Written by @gent_-_orange on 07.10.2011 at 01:14
It gets such high reviews IMO because it has to be compared to the garbage they released in the 90's, on its own this album is nothing special. If it didn't have the words "Metallica" on it no one would give a shit.
I'd say it also gets a lot of unnecessary bashing just because the word "Metallica" is on it. Therefore, I think this album is overrated in certain quarters and unfairly maligned in others. When it comes to Metallica, they seem to incite very extreme reactions one way or the other. As somebody said to me not long ago, Metallica are in a position now that no matter what they release, it will be bashed in some quarters because of the level of hatred some metalheads have for them. And I completely agree with that.
I realise it is the in thing to bash Metallica, But I really tried to like this album and unfortunately it came off as mediocre for me. But I would say that this band is in a position that they could release anything that remotely resembles the glory days and it would have been hailed as an excellent return to form. Which for me it simply is not, I will say that this album is way better than anything released after AJFA, But I still think its nothing special, which for me just shows for me how bad they got during the 90's.
So all in all I would say that this album is neither as bad (nor as good) as people make it out to be. Its all opinions at the end of the day though 
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| Rating: 8 |
Written by Troy Killjoy on 07.10.2011 at 01:55
Exactly. It goes both ways, that's what happens when you make it big. You can never please everyone, but you can always disappoint someone.
This is very true. It's impossible if you're a big band to please everyone. And some people will disown a band once they make it big purely because they prefer it when a band is like some great secret that they think no-one else knows about. Metallica are a band that illicits blind praise and blind hate in almost equal measure, and I think because of this, many people cannot judge Metallica's music completely and totally on it's own merits. I personally think "Death Magnetic" has some great moments, but it's also a bit disjointed and messy. It's no way as good as the first 4 albums, but it's still a good album imo. And yes, no matter what a band does, they will disappoint someone. People bash Slayer for not changing, yet other bands get bashed for changing... you cant win! 
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| Rating: 9 |
Metallica has arrived with death magnetic. Definetely their best album since the black album, not saying that load,reload and st anger are bad
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| Rating: 8 |
For the people who are old enough to have witnessed the vinyl era:
I consider Death Magnetic as a single with "All Nightmare Long" (the best song since "Blackened") at the A-side and "That Was Just Your Life" at the B-side.
I really hoped DM would be an omen of the rebirth of Metallica, a band that I used to purpose to be dead after the Black Album, a cd full of radio airplay stuff (except "The Struggle Within", a pretty cool song i.m.h.o.) and "(Re)Load" of Boredom and "St. Anger", on which Kirk seemed to suffer from muscle-contractions that restrained him from delivering any guitarsolo.
But now, after 4 years of waiting, we "enjoy" the album "Lulu" with Metallica as Lou Reed's escort band.
Once Metallica fired Dave Mustaine for drinking and fucking too much and forgetting to be a musician, now vengeance is at Dave & Co's side.
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Http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/2656/mettoillica2tv4.jpg
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Written by grote_smurf on 16.12.2011 at 00:38
For the people who are old enough to have witnessed the vinyl era:
I consider Death Magnetic as a single with "All Nightmare Long" (the best song since "Blackened") at the A-side and "That Was Just Your Life" at the B-side.
I really hoped DM would be an omen of the rebirth of Metallica, a band that I used to purpose to be dead after the Black Album, a cd full of radio airplay stuff (except "The Struggle Within", a pretty cool song i.m.h.o.) and "(Re)Load" of Boredom and "St. Anger", on which Kirk seemed to suffer from muscle-contractions that restrained him from delivering any guitarsolo.
But now, after 4 years of waiting, we "enjoy" the album "Lulu" with Metallica as Lou Reed's escort band.
Once Metallica fired Dave Mustaine for drinking and fucking too much and forgetting to be a musician, now vengeance is at Dave & Co's side.
Dude just enjoy Death Magnetic and wait for the next real album.
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Vod52 - 02.03.2012 at 20:04
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| Rating: 9 |
A new style more agressive but they play more like they do in the past. A good one expect better for the future
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| Rating: 9 |
Metallica returns to its roots and it's nice.
8,5/10
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| Rating: 7 |
Very nice return to thrash but just some rough edges. "That Was Just Your LIfe" is a pretty good intro and sounds like something a great budding thrash band in the 80's would have written although it pales in comparison to something like blackened or battery.  .5/5
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I bet the next album will suck more than this one...
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| Rating: 6 |
Metallica lost their way a long time ago and this attempt at past glory is only just passable. It feels clunky and the thing it does is highlight how far away they have drifted in the 90's and 2000's.
'All Nightmare Long' does sound like something that could have been forged in the 80s however, and there are some other commendable efforts.
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megadeath13 - 04.11.2012 at 22:32
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Its a good comeback from the giant band Metallica, but it cant touch the greatness of the 80s. There are too many bad songs and the production is pathetic. And dont get me wrong but i cant stand Hetfields voice anymore. Metallica are overrated anyway.
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| Rating: 6 |
Meh, even Load is better than this. This is such a half-assed attempt to win back the old-school thrash fans; a lot of mediocre songs (the bland instrumental Suicide and Redemption is especially a culprit) and a WAY-overproduced sound (just because you can make your album "louder", doesn't mean the album is going to automatically "kick ass", just saying  ).
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I barely listen to this any more. And I used to be a pretty big Metallica fan! I think there are three serious flaws with this album which are part of the reason I don't tend to listen to it:
1. The horrendous production. To sum up my problems with it, it's far too loud, the bass is practically inaudible and, even on low volumes, it's headache inducing.
2. The drumming is pretty poor. I know Lars isn't the best drummer in metal (I'd probably argue either Dave Lombardo or Gene Hoglan deserve that position, with a slight lean towards Hoglan after his awesome drumming on Testament's recent album), but his drumming on this is easily the weakest performance on this album (especially on some of the faster tracks, where he sounds like he's struggling to keep up with the music). Everyone else does pretty good, though.
3. The material is so consistently average (by thrash standards: by normal standards, it's not too shabby) that it's not funny. Exceptions being "Suicide And Redemption" (which I'm still convinced is a song they couldn't think of lyrics to and shouldn't have been released in the first place) and "All Nightmare Long" (which I think is pretty good by thrash standards and, had the production been more tolerable, probably would have been on my playlist of favourite songs).
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| Rating: 7 |
I think this was a good comeback. I'd rate it a 7.6. Better than the Black Album and the others after it, but not as good as ...And Justice for All and albums before it.
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Maco - 01.02.2013 at 22:37
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Yup, they returned
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| Rating: 8 |
The guitar hero version sounds way better than the cd version.
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