Boulevard of DEATH
Sep. 19th, 2008 12:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
osarabaTraffic 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?
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?
