New Metallica Single...Not Bad

[primushead]

VERY old school sounding.  I like it.  It's way better than St. Anger.  They bring out the guitar solos in force.  Anyone else heard it?

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/download/145135-video-metallica-the-day-that-never-comes

[getinthevan]

It gets really good once Hetfield shuts his mouth.  

Just found out that the album has done that thing that faucets sometimes do.

[YouAre_GivenToFly]

Just found out that the album has done that thing that faucets sometimes do.

Get old, rusty, and disappoint you when you are in need of something refreshing?

[getinthevan]

Ha!  Yes... that sounds about right.

[The DARK]

Can't say I like that one very much.

However, I am a fan of Cyanide.

[Kapila]

Me and a friend of mine listened to the album on the way to band practice. I have to say, it's better than the last 3 albums. Not that that's saying much, but still...

[MarkW]

Me and a friend of mine listened to the album on the way to band practice. I have to say, it's better than the last 3 albums. Not that that's saying much, but still...

Let's hope your band makes it past Metallica's disappointing 100 million album sales!  ;) ;) ;) ;) ;)

The new songs are great live, and the band actually look like they're enjoying themselves.  They'd be even better if Lars kept in time, rather than getting all excited and ahead of himself...

[Crispy]

But will they still shop at Armani?

[Clarkwork]

2nd thread we've had about this song.  I like it.  It gets better with each listen.

Here's the vid for it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mlahvvymkxc&feature=related

[capt. scotty]

I was waiting for my car to get fixed today so i made my way into barnes and noble and eventually decided on sampling the album.

I thought it sounded pretty good from just hearing clips. To me and what I heard, it reminded a lot of their stuff around the Ride the Lightning and Master of Puppets years, except a little more melodic. Not as intense as the Kill Em All stuff, but more of the speed metal elements of those days than were apparent on Justice... or Black Album

Does that make sense?

Not saying its as good as RTL or MOP, but what I heard sounded better than anything since Black Album (although I only ever owned Load, Reload)

Agreed that the single sounds better the more you hear it too...I think Hetfield needs to start hitting the booze again though because his voice sounds..weak

I probably wont buy it because I know ill rarely listen to it, but maybe ill burn it off limewire  ;D

[tomEisenbraun]

Good fuck, this album has something cool to it. I listened to the first 3/4 of it in my car on break at work with the lyrics book, and while Hetfield isn't the world's greatest all-time lyricist, there was something there that really caught me.

I got into this band hard in middle school and high school, and I grew up rooting myself down in that anger a lot, sort of a defense mechanism of sorts, I suppose. But I've grown up since then, and Hetfield has, too. The Unforgiven III, as much as I would have liked to think it shouldn't have been made before I listened to it, it pulled everything together there. That fight and struggle I grew up with that Hetfield grew up with--he knows what he's angry at now. And now he knows how to fight it. For the first time he's not beaten into a corner dying, he's not the old man who gets free only to die, he's not the one standing alone in his own hell of loneliness, he's figured it out. He's his own worst enemy and he's almost killed himself and now he's got to deal with it, whether or not he's forgiven for where he's been.

The whole "Forgive me/forgive me not" finally finds power in the Unforgiven trilogy. He's gotten above it. Dammit, Kirk explodes everywhere and it's the point in the album when his shredding really turns light of the situation and lyrical matter and everything becomes huge. If they wrote the album for this song, then it's perfect and this is what needed to be done. This band is far from done, and I'm excited about that. They've gotten re-energized and pushed again and they're doing what they do best (except Lars--I could seriously have Metallica without him and be so happy).

Badass, guys. I had such a shit-eating grin on the first time listening to this album--we find that Creeping Death feeling through the first half of the album, and then it pulls in the feeling they started toying with in St. Anger, but in the best way (don't kill me, but I really seriously don't hate that album...). The way the songs grow and morph is great, and while they aren't the forerunners of thrash anymore, they have given the world reason to continue to pay them respect as the Godfathers of the genre.

Bad. Ass.

[MarkW]

Good fuck, this album has something cool to it. I listened to the first 3/4 of it in my car on break at work with the lyrics book, and while Hetfield isn't the world's greatest all-time lyricist, there was something there that really caught me.

I got into this band hard in middle school and high school, and I grew up rooting myself down in that anger a lot, sort of a defense mechanism of sorts, I suppose. But I've grown up since then, and Hetfield has, too. The Unforgiven III, as much as I would have liked to think it shouldn't have been made before I listened to it, it pulled everything together there. That fight and struggle I grew up with that Hetfield grew up with--he knows what he's angry at now. And now he knows how to fight it. For the first time he's not beaten into a corner dying, he's not the old man who gets free only to die, he's not the one standing alone in his own hell of loneliness, he's figured it out. He's his own worst enemy and he's almost killed himself and now he's got to deal with it, whether or not he's forgiven for where he's been.

The whole "Forgive me/forgive me not" finally finds power in the Unforgiven trilogy. He's gotten above it. Dammit, Kirk explodes everywhere and it's the point in the album when his shredding really turns light of the situation and lyrical matter and everything becomes huge. If they wrote the album for this song, then it's perfect and this is what needed to be done. This band is far from done, and I'm excited about that. They've gotten re-energized and pushed again and they're doing what they do best (except Lars--I could seriously have Metallica without him and be so happy).

Badass, guys. I had such a shit-eating grin on the first time listening to this album--we find that Creeping Death feeling through the first half of the album, and then it pulls in the feeling they started toying with in St. Anger, but in the best way (don't kill me, but I really seriously don't hate that album...). The way the songs grow and morph is great, and while they aren't the forerunners of thrash anymore, they have given the world reason to continue to pay them respect as the Godfathers of the genre.

Bad. Ass.

What he said.  Yeah!

Seriously, Tom, I love reading your posts.  I always feel cleverer at the end than I did at the beginning...