metallica's black album

[heyman]

"no way their new album will hold up to metalhead's current standards"


Really?

I think we should reserve our comments until the album actually comes out and you give it a listen..

Who knows, maybe it will be a rebirth?

[EricF]

Originally Posted by Kadden Heart

they didn't show any vocal takes well enough for me to see the mics tho,...
vocal mics?
(not that the vocals were all that amazing)

I recall recall a scene in their movie with James singing into a SM7 with the windscreen off.

Oops...that wasn't the Black album.

[goatie]

Originally Posted by allencollins

Is it true Rubin will produce the next disk?

I think they should use the same studio/engineer/producer as puppets
or RTL

On Rubin, apparently so,
see Metallica.com
and Metallica.com

[Ahellam]

Man, alot of people with seemingly personal problems against this band.

[HeavyG]

Originally Posted by PoorGlory

The black album is almost unlistenable to me. The drums sound good (considering its Lars playing them) and the bass sound is great (but too low in the mix)... even the vocals are ok. But the guitar sounds awful. It's a thin sheet of distortion. Not huge at all. I need a low/fat mix when it comes to heaviness, the black album is the opposite.

Not to mention the songs are boring and have no movement (i.e. the beginning of every song has the same feel/mood/energy as the end of that song). Riff writing? A+. Songwriting and arrangement? D-.

Metallica has been overshadowed in virtuosity, songwriting, energy, and production by countless other bands today. They are a dinosaur, and there is no way their new album will hold up to metalhead's current standards. I highly doubt the new one can top Megadeath's (had to include an "a" or else the forum puts in a smiley to make it look like Mega) latest in terms of respect in the metal community, not sales figures. Modern rock radio and clueless mall-shopping fanboys will gobble it up, but of course these are the same people who listen to bands like Hinder and Seether and other awful garbage like that.

This is a classic case of music as art...and noone can tell you what sounds good to your ears. I hear the exact opposite. "Sad but True" is just about the heaviest guitar / drums I have heard...absolutely mammoth sounding. I have always love the tone on that album...Kirk and James have never sounded better.

Sure Metallica are the elder statesmen...and they have tried to roll with the punches of the music industry (fairly successfully from a commercial point of view...ardent fans would argue otherwise). If the young punks want to throw down...James will just take the stage...hit the first chord of "Welcome Home Sanitarium" and say "call me back when you make an album like MASTER"...with MORE BEER carved in his Explorer.

All wannabes will then be sent home...

[Anselmo]

A bit off topic here but.... Has a release date been given for the new album??

[JPeters86]

Originally Posted by Einar

A bit off topic here but.... Has a release date been given for the new album??

Rumors are that it will be released in Spring. Check this one:

Metallica's ninth studio album - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[PoorGlory]

Originally Posted by HeavyG

This is a classic case of music as art...and noone can tell you what sounds good to your ears. I hear the exact opposite. "Sad but True" is just about the heaviest guitar / drums I have heard...absolutely mammoth sounding. I have always love the tone on that album...Kirk and James have never sounded better.

Sure Metallica are the elder statesmen...and they have tried to roll with the punches of the music industry (fairly successfully from a commercial point of view...ardent fans would argue otherwise). If the young punks want to throw down...James will just take the stage...hit the first chord of "Welcome Home Sanitarium" and say "call me back when you make an album like MASTER"...with MORE BEER carved in his Explorer.

All wannabes will then be sent home...

Take a listen to Testament's new song "More than Meets the Eye" on their myspace page MySpace.com - TestAmenT - Oakland, California - Thrash / Metal - www.myspace.com/testamentlegions and then revisit that statement.

Met and Testament come from the same place at around the same time. One stayed awesome, the other wallowed in a sea of mediocrity for years. Guess who did what.

And I've seen Metallica live multiple times. I've also seen tons of bands, young and old, who totally slay them. All I'm saying here is that they have a good chance at staying relevant and winning people (metal people) over again with this new album, and I have doubts they can do it.

A lot of the "wannabes" you speak of are actually "currently-ares". Lets hope Met can stay away from the "has-been" pit they've been teetering on.