Boulevard of DEATH

[osaraba]

Traffic in the city this weekend and forthcoming week will be horrid. At least, around the East Midtown area. The General Assembly is in session and several nations' presidents/heads of state will be visiting, including our own. Usually this wouldn't make much difference, but I'll have the car this weekend, so this is somewhat of an inconvenience should I have chosen to use it. >_<;




A few days ago, this was my comment at Morgan's LJ...

Yeah, I'm still a little ambivalent over Death Magnetic in general. It's way better than St. Anger, but I'm still having a few issues. Most prominent is, actually, James's vocals. They're a little higher pitched than usual and I'm oddly stuck on that. =(

Aside from that, I can really hear a blend of St. Anger and Load/Reload-era, with a touch of the Black Album mixed in. There're some interesting electric guitar solos that are not their usual sound, and and it makes them sound very current -- which I'm thinking I like in a general sense, but have to get used to the fact that it's coming from Metallica now.

As I said, many mixed feelings on this one. I'm going to have to listen to the album over a lot before I settle into it.

BTW, "The Day That Never Comes" is a decent song, but not the one I'd have picked for their first come-back single. ::shrugs::

I've been listening to it almost non-stop since then, and it's certainly grown on me. I don't think there's a song I actively dislike, yet it's still going to take some getting used to. I find that I like "That Was Just Your Life", "Broken, Beat & Scarred", and "All Nightmare Long" a lot. The music itself rocks; I think I'm still a bit ambivalent over the vocals, and I think the lyrics are... not their best. I can't place what it is I'm not quite happy with.

Still, overall I'm enjoying it. And it's nice to have new Metallica stuff!

I didn't get tickets for the tour -- Metclub tickets were sold out by the time we tried to buy them and I'm not going to suffer the experience I did at the NIN concert, being in the back of general admission. I'm hoping they'll add another leg to the tour and that I can go then.

So yeah... what do you think?

Comments

[ddrkaiba.livejournal.com]

I actually haven't listened to it yet. I was kind of hyped when they said it was a spiritual successor to Master of Puppets, which was my favorite. But then I heard about Unforgiven III and The Day That Never Comes isn't bad, but I kind of expected more.

Good to know that the album is worth checking it out! Have you had issues with the production? Apparently the distortion is really awful, and oddly enough, the guitar hero cuts are much better. So a lot of fans are listening to the GH versions of the songs. http://mastering-media.blogspot.com/2008/09/metallica-death-magnetic-clipping.html

[http://users.livejournal.com/_corruption_/]

I think the SA post last week covered it nicer than I can.
http://www.somethingawful.com/d/garbage-day/metallica-death-magnetic.php