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Death Magnetic
Death Magnetic
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Artist: Metallica
Label: Warner Bros.
Category: Music

List Price: $18.98
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars(871 reviews)
Sales Rank: 44

Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.4

MPN: 508732
UPC: 093624986188
EAN: 0093624986188
ASIN: B00192KCQ0

Release Date: September 12, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

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1 out of 5 stars This mix should NOT have left the mastering room in this condition   January 2, 2009
  1 out of 3 found this review helpful

Metallica, this is by far the worst mixed album I have ever TRIED to listen to. I've heard 12 year olds learn how to master and EQ their mixes better than this. br /It's simple, you OVERCOMPRESSED and LIMITED the s*** out of your recording. So basically what I am hearing is overclipped, distorted, digital noise!br /br /How this recording left mastering room in this condition for mass-production, I have no idea. But it deserves a 1 star just for that reason alone... i mean come on now, seriously.


5 out of 5 stars A Masterpiece   January 2, 2009
I Own about 90% of their catalog I'm a collector, a metal up your A?? album very well done. Buy It!!!!!!!


4 out of 5 stars It rocks   January 1, 2009
  1 out of 1 found this review helpful

I'll admit, I never was a big Metallica fan (as a guitar playin' Eddie Van Halen wannabe, the guitar riffs and solos sounded hopelessly amateurish and simplistic by comparison in the 80's, the heaviness and intensity notwithstanding), but after 20 years of hearing their brand of metal on the radio etc, I'd picked out things here and there that I did like and it grows on you. For better or worse , they took metal to a rather bare bones and ruthless banal approach and heavy metal fans everywhere thought it de rigeur. Nowadays, that straightforward fierceness and banality has been adopted by just about any heavy metal band to one degree or another. These tracks sound like a return to their earlier stuff, but with older and wiser lyrics and most strikingly , much more adept songwriting at least for the metal genre. The guitar riffs sound great and flow from section to section, and the whole of the songs sounds very musical, never too simplistic or repetitive, like their early days somtimes. Every tune just flat out sounds SATISFYING. All Nightmare Long was like an adrenaline shot. Unforgiven III was dramatic and melodic, and Hetfelds singing reminds me of Billy Joe Armstrong in spots! I'd spin this CD for anyone wanting to hear some quintessential Metallica. Good stuff.


3 out of 5 stars Good songs... bad recording! Clipping galore.   December 30, 2008
  4 out of 4 found this review helpful

I'm a Metallica fan. Saw them twice in concert for the ...Justice and black album tours. Bought Master of Puppets when it came out. Hated St. Anger. Thought Load and ReLoad were okay. This album is better than the last three (not counting Garage Inc. which I loved).br /br /However, it's a funny thing...br /br /I "borrowed" this album from the internets originally because I paid for St. Anger and was pissed that I paid good green money for that piece of crap. Oh, and trust me, I tried listening to it. It still sucked. So, I said to myself, "Dude, download that new one and see if it sucks."br /br /I liked the songs but I was bothered because it sounded all distorted and compressed. I thought maybe it was a bad rip and that's what I get for "borrowing" it. So, I thought, I dig it, I'll buy it. Then Amazon offers it for an amazingly low price (amazing to me, anyway) for half of 10 dollars. I'm all, "Yeah, buddy, $5!" So, I download it and make an honest man of myself.br /br /I throw it on with some headphones tonight and, damn, the guitars are clipping. Bad. "That Was Just Your Life" sounds bad. "End of the Line" sounds better. "Broken, Beat Scarred" sounds bad again. It sounds like the rhythm guitar was just mastered too loudly, ie. Hetfield's guitar. Kirk's leads sound pretty good. The drums sound alright, too. But, the clipping is really distracting. Also, the album sounds really compressed.br /br /I know, I'm complaining about compression in an album I downloaded off Amazon. But, it's at 256 kbps and I have a lot of albums that I ripped off of CD at that rate that don't sound so dense and compressed.br /br /It's a good album and you will enjoy listening to it in the car or on the stereo if your speakers aren't very good. I bet it sounds great on an iPod dock or something. It's good to know Metallica can still kick some a** but sad that they couldn't get their album mastered properly.


4 out of 5 stars Welcome back, guys!   December 29, 2008
  3 out of 3 found this review helpful

Imagine if you will, an alternate universe in which Metallica went on hiatus after releasing ...And Justice for All. Sure, they occasionally got together for special projects, such as SM. However, by and large, the guys went on to do solo projects, grow as musicians, and ceased to function as the band Metallica. Then, they got back together to do Death Magnetic: this is the album they would have created. br /br /This is a great, thrashy album that, in some ways, echoes Kill `em All more than any of their other work. Gone is the painful bid for Top 40 popularity. This album was recorded by a thrashin', hard-rockin', evolved and mature Metallica that is proud of its roots. Fans of 90's-era Metallica might find this album too heavy; the rest of us are too busy flashing the horns and banging our heads to care.br /


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