Product Description

'Death Magnetic' is the ninth studio album from heavy metaltitans Metallica, who link up with producer Rick Rubin (Beastie Boys, Slayer) for the first time. Epic guitar solos from Kirk Hammett, constant speed changes and multiple riffs per song make the follow-up to 2003's 'St. Anger' a throwback to the band's pre-1990s style. James Hetfield's vocals and the pounding rhythms of Lars Ulrich are as powerful as ever, while Bass player Rob Trujillo appears on a studio recordingwith the band for the first time.

Track Listing

1. That Was Just Your Life
2. The End Of The Line
3. Broken, Beat & Scarred
4. The Day That Never Comes
5. All Nightmare Long
6. Cyanide
7. The Unforgiven III
8. The Judas Kiss
9. Suicide & Redemption
10. My Apocalypse

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #524 in Music
• Released on: 2008-09-12
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 75 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review

Customer Reviews

Ace
I'm not much given to hyperbole and "ace" is not a word I've used much since I was 14, twenty years ago, but then I haven't enjoyed an album this much since 1988 either. Certainly not one by Metallica. Death Magnetic, however, is just...ace.

Metallica play it safe
On first hearing this album I was happy to hear Metallica having a good proper strong thrash sound again after the sludge that was St Anger.

I don't think the mastering is an issue, plenty of great albums are badly produced(Iggy & the Stooges-Raw Power, The Smiths-The Queen is dead) a good album will shine through.

Its dissapointing that they havent continued evolving. Metallica had re-invented themselves in sound and in image with Load, as much as Ride the Lightning is one of my favourite albums of all time I still really love the Load albums.

Metallica seemed to enjoy teasing there fans and they always speak of doing what they want, regardless of whats expected of them, but now they have given in to the fans who want 1980s Metallica back.

Axl Rose has just released an album which is both modern and classic sounding, maybe Metallica should've thought of a new direction after Re-load, there were elements of St Anger I thought couldve been focused on, like the melodic ideas in sweet amber, Unnamed Feeling, Purify and All within my hands. Instead of focusing on these ideas St Anger was a total mess and the 'metal' side of it consisted of really naff nu-metal nothing riffs, they comprimised the pottential experimentation of St Anger whilst missing the nu-metal bandwagon by a mile, but I still have more respect for St Anger Metallica than I do for Death Magnetic Metallica.

Anyway back to Death Magnetic -
The progressive elements on this album (that hark back to Justice) sound forced, the lyrics are clear, which is a shame because they make you cringe throughout the whole album. The start of the Unforgiven III is very promising then ends up sounding like 'I dissapear'(Metallicas Mission Impossible tune), makes you realise how good the unforgiven too was and how incredibly strong The Black albums original Unforgiven was. Kirk Hammet may be back on solo duties but he doesnt do anything memorable, on hearing his guitar work on this album alone he would gain no acclaim as a lead guitarist, its very predictable, sounds like someone doing a Kirk Hammet impression.

People always slag off Lars but I think he is a very distinctive drummer, hes interesting to listen to, not many drummers get away with being slightly technically imperfect, especially in metal, I think colaborating with more adventurous musicians would bring out the best in lars, these days he certainly outclasses the other members of the band in terms of passion and individuality.


I remember how outraged all the narrow-minded metalheads were when Load came out(I remember one meathead telling me how he smashed his cd with a hammer after hearing a few songs), yet this album will unfortunately please them because Metallica have at last, probably for the first time really in there career, played it safe.

preparing for the backlash
im gonna get some fury for this one..................but chinese democracy is a million times better buy that..ha ha ha ha ha :)