...for those of you who might give a jellybaby

http://www.bunalti.com/?p=12283

ha. i was beat!

its all over the place now, leaked... almost every metal blog has it...

verdict? I like it and I don't care what anyone else says!!

it all goes to hell (not in a *good* way) once james opens his filthy fagtrap.

i know this has been said a million times but why do people still care about this band.

i still can't put my mind around how people willingly eat mayonaise. there's an ass for every seat, apparently.

It's because they've changed metal and you've still done nothing.

mayo is gross, mustard is where its at.

METALLICA SUCKS

dammit i finally agree with you.

Let me add to what I said.
They wrote songs you wish you wrote while you guys play shitty shows at obriens thinking someone cares and will sign you and enable you to tour and do all the things metallica has done 100 times over. Name one song that any of you have written thats 1/10th the song Master of puppets is. Hell, I bet 99% of you can't play all the riffs and solos in that song. Case closed.

you are 16 or 40

yawn, let me know when the coco and smores are done.

that means yr officially a squeeb.

now i gotta go google that, thanks.

You might want this flame shield.

I actually have been teaching "Master" to a 13 year old guitar student of mine... both solos included. He shreds it. Hard. Blow me.

it doesnt matter if someone can play it or not.. it SUCKS.

fuck wma's

woah, have you tried that new flavored crack they're selling?

if you import a folder that has .wma's to itunes "File -> Add Folder to Library" it converts them to .m4a's

brian, stop helping the children listen to horrible music.

as long as they don't buy it...I don't care

i'm telling Lars

I'm like the BASF of downloading Metallica albums. I don't download Metallica albums, I make the Metallica albums other people download work better

hahahahahaha

the crack i do has no flavor.

that is why you fail.

cook it with Flavored water and it will

The instrumental, "Suicide & Redemption" is the only acceptable portion of the album thus far. I figure I at least owe it a stolen listen. My nigga Sour D done helped me through this moribund undertaking. Now onto the 33rpm vinyl rip of "The Call of Ktulu" . . .

damn i cant download this.

maybe thats good, cause well ummm napster bad.

but anyways i am getting tickets for metallica in three minutes.

got them tickets.
way too much money but hey whatever.

The new album is on various blogs/forums for download (rapidshare and megadownload links) i was in the mall last night and was at the apple store buying a new macbook pro and guess what was blasting in the store? the new metallica album. there were like 18 people crowded around this iMac and i am thinking ok maybe its a demo or something but no, standing around listening to the new Metallica album...

i think the new album is not bad. yeah there are dumb riffs in every song making turn into shit but for the most part for some guys in their late 40s, it really is not bad.

I am going to try not to go into instant bash mode and try and give this a fair assessment.
Ok I just listened to this and here is my take on this song by song:

This Was Just Your Life – The music started out with some promise, then het opened his trap. You know I just can’t get him “singing” or trying sing. Overly long, could have ended 2 min sooner. Drums sound like shit. Not a fan of the guitar tone. The whole melodo-power-dragonforce thing at the end just felt really forced and contrived.

The End Of The Line – opening riff, meh. riff at 1:01 not bad. Again music not bad, kick sounds really weak, snare overpowers everything. There was a time…20years ago when het sang with conviction and lyrically it was powerful, this is not. I know I must sound crazy or some of you will say I am, but musically I am getting a very Mercyful Fate vibe, just a vibe but it’s still there. Oh my god, the solo, or what hamster is trying to pass of as 1 just kicked in. Disgusting. Mellow part not good, borders on total suck. Again overly long. This one could have ended 3 min sooner.

Broken, Beaten & Scarred – Intro not bad, not great either. Main riff I like a lot, very Kyuss-like. het just ruined it. Damn. Ok, music is not bad, lyrically it’s not very good. Solo just kicked in, this one is not too bad, considering how horrible the last one was. Still getting that MF vibe. This one is long but didn’t FEEL as long as the others. Overall the best one I’ve heard.

The Day That Never Comes – I already said I don’t like this song, at all!

All Nightmare long – I like the beginning a lot, the fast part that is. Oh man the vox suck. Is everyone of these songs over 6min? It feels like they purposely aimed to write long songs just for the sake of writing long songs. Solo is not good, at all. Riff that comes in at 5:23 is not bad. ok, solo 2 just came in, better than the first still not good. The riff after that solo should have been used through-out the entire song. The song would’ve rocked. This one feels really, really long.

Cyanide – haven’t like this song since I first heard it. Just way too ADHD for me. It’s all over the place for no real good reason.

The Unforgiven III – God I really don’t even want to listen to this song, ok here goes… UGGHHH piano sucks!!!!!!! Oh please don’t sing over this… wait horns??? Is this a song leftover from load or reload. It sounds like it. I am all for songs that are out of the “realm” of what a band usually does, if it’s a good song. This is not one of those times. I say this with some trepidation, but out of the songs on load and reload there is one that I like, The Outlaw Torn. In no way is it a metallica song, but it is a well written song nonetheless. This tries to be an EPIC ballad, fails miserably, solo sounds so forced, and I would really like to jam that wah pedal up his ass. I am trying to be fair, in fact I don’t even mind The Unforgiven 1,

The Judas Kiss – Very MF. I could so hear King singing over this. 3:33 in and I am just bored. Nothing really has grabbed my ear in any of these songs. Oh here comes creepy wah fade in solo, blegh… again overly long for no good reason. I like long songs if it has a reason for being long. This one has no reason, just like most of these songs.

Suicide & Redemption – I am 3:54 in nothing spectacular about this. At least het’s not singing on this. Mediocre at best. Riff at 7:20 is not bad. Again I can hear the MF influence all over this. 9:57 song is over. Thankfully.

My Apocalypse – Another attempt at being heavy, for the sake of being heavy. None of this sounds natural, very forced. Riff that comes in at 1:51 is cool, even hets’ vox aren’t that bad until he starts screaming spare parts, spare parts.

All right, here is my final conclusion, the sum of the parts that are good do not make the whole worthwhile. I would say it is better than S.A but then again even Jack Daniels and Pizza sounds better than S.A. Is it better than load and reload, marginally. I have been holding out hope for 17 years that they would pull their heads out of there asses. I know, I am an idiot. I really don’t know who this would appeal too. The older fans like myself, who pretty much grew up on the first 4 albums aren’t going to like it. It is so left field from black that most of those fans aren’t going to dig it. The fans they gained during load and reload might dig it, but again it’s different. The fans they lost during s.a. will never come back. I think if I had to pick a song on this album that I could say didn’t totally suck, at gun point mind you, I would have to say, Broken, Beaten & Scarred. Other than that at least they didn’t fail at something…disappointment.

which apple store was this?

consolation prize:


RIDE THE LIGHTNING
vinyl rip @ 33 1/3 rpm aka the heaviest album ever

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=P30BOWPN

Downloaded and listening, even though I already heard Cyanide and My Apocalypse and didn't like them. I guess I'm just a masochist.

hahaha

I wrote Crazy Train.

this album puts me to sleep on so many different levels.
it sounds like they tried so hard but it's just way too boring and has no soul.
metallicrap

THANK YOU for doing all the work for me

Yea it was hard work, but you guys are worth it.

thanks for saving me $15. my roommate will probably by it anyways and try to force me to enjoy it.

hahaha i'd say thats probably the most strenuous thing you'll do all year.

I don't know about that, kicking drunken titty grabbers out of King Richards and trying to finish my own album seem to rate right up there on the stren-o-meter

I wrote Beethoven's 5th.

but he's wearing plaid shorts.

still hilarious though