If you make a little day trip out of it you can come see them w/us at the the Rock N Shock metal/horror convention/convert
New Metallica anyone? Here ya go!
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I'm not expecting them to out-do themselves; I just want them to stop sounding like something they're not. Right now, these guys sound like a cover band trying desperately to capture the "old" Metallica's sound, but they're failing at it miserably, for the most part.
Man, all this talking about the bar, bar, bar, bar is making me want to GO TO a bar.
I'm not saying my review of it is how everyone else SHOULD or is GOING TO feel about it, it's just my take on it ... and I think it sucks. Really, Metallica should have released one of those three genuinely good tracks on their as their debut single for the album - THAT would REALLY motivate people to buy the thing. But "The Day That Never Comes" was only a halfway-good track ... actually, only like 1/3rd, maybe only 1/4th, because you have to suffer through 4 minutes of slow yodeling and ballad-like crap to get to the good part of that song.
FWIW, most of the mainstream garbage isn't even metal by even the loosest of definitions - it's frickin' emo garbage. Green Day and all that ... bleh. Not metal. Metallica ... ALMOST metal, now, I'll give them that. But still, not quite there, yet. The only way they can truly get back to their roots is to stop writing songs that are meant to be played on the radio, kill their frickin' sound engineer, and teach James to focus upon his guitar skills instead of singing.
Again, I can't say these guys aren't at least leaning in the right direction, but they've got a long ways to go. They're basically following on the heels of Megadeth ... who, by the way, isn't 100% quite yet, either, but they're a helluva lot farther along on the right track. I mean, I may not absolutely LOVE every track on Megadeth's latest album, but I can at least stand to listen to all of 'em - this new Metallica album only has 3, maybe 4 even worth a regular listen, IMO.
Dave that's just your opinion. How can you say there trying to capture there yester years? Do you know anything about them? Personally? Recently? No, probably not!
There just sittin back making there music with no pressure. They are multi-multi millionaires! They have nothing to prove. It's not your cup of tea, you made that clear in SEVERAL threads. But yet you bash them every chance you get.
Huge Metalli'***in'cA fan here, and I'm listening to it now... But after the first two songs I'm really really not impressed. I've listened to Metallica since I was 10 years old.... Those were the good old days. All I wore were Metallica shirts to school.. but this is just getting bad. I'll stick with some Pantera. Atleast we know they can't put out a ****ty new album.....
I dunno man, i'm a huge Pantera fan too but i think Reinventing The Steel was a POS. They peaked with Vulgar Display of Power...that album broke the F'in mold. Then Far Beyond Driven was fantastic, but i think they started falling off with The Great Southern Trendkill and further still with Reinventing The Steel.
Anyways, i bought it for $9.99 at Best Buy...its good to see it's not priced like most CDs are these days.
Oh and i'd have to say the absolute #1 band on my To See Wish List is Between The Buried And Me. Their last album Colors was unflippinbelievable. I've also got a live DVD of their album The Silent Circus, and they can throw it down live just as well as they can on an album, and that's damned impressive for how technical their music is.
My other wish lister was Amon Amarth, but after seeing some of their live videos, i'm not so sure. I love their albums but they don't sound so hot live.
That makes no sense to me.
You could just as well stick to old Metallica.
Meaning Dimebag is dead... there will never be another real Pantera album.
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