Metallica are due to release their 9th Studio album this year (Whoope do) and I happend to take a butchers a WIki aboiut it this morning. I discovered that one of the likely titles for one of their tracks is:
"One Minute Closer to Death (Than You Were a Minute Ago)"
This has to be the dumbest title of a song ever....
Anyway if you want to talk about Metallica heres a thread for it.
-- Edited by Symphony Of Destruction at 19:25, 2008-08-17
That's the same usual metallica sillyness they apply to every album they make. They usually give the songs weird names or like number them until they come up with real titles.
Also the 2 songs they played on the festival circuit back in '06 aparently never made the cut. Only parts of the songs are being used.
I've just heard the full version of one of the new songs "Cyanide" and it's pretty god damned good I have to say. Final track listings are as follows...
1 That Was Just Your Life 2 The End of the Line 3 Broken, Beat & Scarred 4 The Day That Never Comes 5 All Nightmare Long 6 Cyanide 7 The Unforgiven III 8 The Judas Kiss 9 Suicide & Redemption 10 My Apocalypse
Along with the swanky new album cover....
I'm so excited I'm taking the day off work to down a bottle of JD and listen to the album on repeat all day :D
lol the black album is the bench mark for when they sarted on the downward spiral of shittitude. Authough there were a few gems from the "Load/Re-load" Era, I have a good feeling about this one though.
The new single is called "The Day That Never Comes" I heard an instrumental demo version of it and if it's true to form it sounds fucking sweet!
See I kinda liked the rawness from St Anger. I mean I realise it was no "Master of Puppets" but after the alt rock Dross from Load and Re-load and the disapointment that was Garage Inc I thought it was a step in the right direction. There was real emotion there and "St Anger" and "Frantic" still grace my MP3.
I figure if any other band than Metallica released St Anger it would've been recieved with open arms.
I think if the drums were a bit less frivolous and they had guitar solos in the songs they'd have been on to something that we've not really seen from them since the Puppets era, and that's music that says something and not just posturing.
Okay, just listen to this and I have to say it exceeded my expectations. It certainly made me recall my headbanging days of the late 80's-early 90's.
However, it still felt very self-referential towards their previous work - specifically ...And Justice For All mixed with the Black album. You could pick out the blueprint from some of the songs here from their earlier gems rather clearly.
In other words, nothing really stood out as a future classic track or a sign of any sense of creative forward thinking to me. More of a "return to what made us big" rather than a "return to form" for me.