Death Magnetic
*Death Magnetic* abandons concept for pure technique, and it’s a master class in dynamics, tempo changes, and rhythmic interplay. After being relegated a subordinate role on previous albums, Kirk Hammett emerges as this album’s MVP. His solos on “That Was Just Your Life,” “Cyanide,” and “All Nightmare Long” are passages of pure electrocution.
After more than a decade's worth of critical and public relations missteps, the world's biggest-- and at one time, best-- metal band tries to recapture its former glory on this Rick Rubin-produced album. In the real world, it's called a midlife crisis.
The 2004 documentary Some Kind Of Monster got credit for exposing the private side of Metallica's transformation from metal godhead into a pack of spoiled, creatively arthritic millionaires, but from Load to Napster-bashing—milestones so widely reviled that their names alone signify shark-jumping—that shift was…
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Metallica evolved from beer-soaked garage jams to becoming one of the biggest brand names of rock and have struck an undeniable power chord in several generations of teenagers, providing a soundtrack to growing up (and now) growing old gracelessly.
<p>It's a joy to have these gnarled veterans back to reinforce the sheer visceral thrill of timeless heavy metal</p>
So here we are again, more than five years after a whole slew of you ripped me a new one for my enthusiastic review of the last and most controversial METALLICA album ever, 2003's "St. Anger". Unlike many critics — especially in the UK press — who came out equally unabashed in their praise ...
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If the cringe-inducing, touchy-feely therapy sessions captured in the Metallica documentary Some Kind of Monster were responsible for 2003's execrable St Anger, you have to wonder what kind of tough love prompted this entirely superior offering.
Metallica - Death Magnetic review: A fine album from a heavy metal juggernaut that might just be kicking back into gear.