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blu · Joined: 2001-05-02 Posts: 1435

The Day That Never Comes

Local Indy station premiered it today, playing it every two hours on the hour from 2pm until 6am. I caught it, and must say although it is not the greatest Metallica song ever, it does harken back to Lightning/Puppets and it is easily better than most/all of the songs from the last three albums. And, it is almost 8 minutes long. Back to Progressive Metal, which is all good by me.

I pre-ordered the CD weeks ago so I don't feel guilty about downloading it today, and it is on the Blu-Pod in rotation. :thumb:

Mink · Joined: 2006-10-28 Posts: 780 Location: PC Burner +

Thanks for the review. I gotta say St. Anger left a bad taste in my mouth. I was going to wait and hear some songs before buying this one. Quote: it does harken back to Lightning/Puppets
This is promising, I may reconsider.

Iron Mike · Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 7:01 pm Post subject:

As a mega hardcore Metallica fan & collector for 18 years, I'm rather disappointed in both Cyanide and TDTNC. All the talk about Death Magnetic harkening back to the MOP & AJFA era, I simply don't hear that in either of those songs. On TDTNC, there's an early influence of "Fade To Black" and then a few minutes later some very similar riffs to "One" but when you add those two elements in '08 to a song, it doesn't necessarily work, in my opinion.

I'm just not impressed with what I'm hearing thus far from Metallica's latest effort. Their teaming w/Rick Rubin never felt right to me.

Reddutchie · Joined: 2004-10-25 Posts: 369 Location: The Netherlands

Mink wrote: Thanks for the review. I gotta say St. Anger left a bad taste in my mouth. I was going to wait and hear some songs before buying this one.

I agree. I hope they will air some songs in the Netherlands soon....

gatomike26 · Joined: 2005-07-20 Posts: 95

Too me this album so far seems like a cross between and justice for all and the black album with a newer feel.IT will take time to grow on me,just like anything that has came out since justice when I got into them originaly.

I don't care for much or reload or st. anger but this might be different.

They are still my favorite band for the great concerts I've seen them at live and on bootleg and live dvds and for their acheivements in there prime.

I see all these people bashing it online ie metal sludge and blabbermouth(but they hate most things there lol) but its getting praise also how can you compare a song that you are just hearing for the first time to some of the best songs ever that have been out since the 80s or early 90s.

These guys are in there mid 40s I don't know what people are expecting name me a band that has come out with an album in there 40s which was better then an album in their prime during their 20s?

I just want a decent album and too see them again I'm not expecting the some classic Metallica album,I saw them last May at the Wiltern in La,Can't wait till december when they hit San Diego,Metallica always delivers live.Plus they switch their setlist around everynight caught them 4 times on the St. anger tour La Coliseum,San Diego Sports Arena,La Forum and Anaheim Pond,Every show had atleast 5 songs that were different minimum I wish Van Halen would do that.

tstronge · Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2008 8:48 am Post subject:

gatomike26 wrote: Too me this album so far seems like a cross between and justice for all and the black album with a newer feel.

That what it sounds like to me. It I was to compare it to a song off of each of those lp's, it would be "to live is to die" and "The Unforgiven" somewhat, and throw in a little of "Fade to balck". I kinda like it. As much as I like metallica, they kinda of lost me on the black lp.

eruption1962 · Joined: 2008-01-06 Posts: 177 Location: SoCal

I guess I fall into the "MetVoid" not knowing whether to stay loyal or jump ship...although I am a huge fan of 'TBA' and probably based solely on 'Wherever I May Roam'...this song is in my all time top 10. However, everything after that????????????????????????????????????????????????????
I try to give 'em a chance...but maybe a little booze and narcotics might improve their product?!?!?

SRC · Joined: 2007-06-16 Posts: 360 Location: NORTH CAROLINA

after J,F,A they went to shit, i have a couple new videos on the way from a friend,i only took them to pas along here i love the old stuff ,

jgdrag · Joined: 2006-01-21 Posts: 185 Location: Ontario

Lost it when Bob Rock came in.

Iron Mike · Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2008 8:48 pm Post subject:

Gotta disagree. Bob Rock helped them polish & refine how they recorded, he didn't hurt a thing. James wrote those songs, Jason, Lars, & Kirk & James played their parts and no producer made them play anything they didn't want to. Metallica damn sure could have used Bob to add some sonic punch to AJFA, that production is dog crap! Usually Flemming was on top of things, but AJFA has crap production and only fair mixing.

jgdrag · Joined: 2006-01-21 Posts: 185 Location: Ontario

Personally, I prefer Justice to anything with Bob Rock involved. The Sonic punch was definately lacking on the black album.

Iron Mike · Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 4:53 pm Post subject:

O.K., this is funny. So you think the Black album lacked sonic punch, but AJFA had sonic punch? You never noticed Lars' snare sounding like crap and Jason's bass being non-existent on AJFA?

atomicpunk5151 · Joined: 2004-08-05 Posts: 551 Location: Sacramento, CA USA

check it out......

The 3rd new song "My Apocalypse" is pretty damn fast. They turned up the tempo a notch here. Pretty thrashy.

Couple good riffs and solos.

Here is the link to the official site for the stream. http://www.metallica.com/index.asp?item=601136

or mms://wm.elektra.com/metallica/metallica_com/2008/de/My_Apocalypse.wma

The Cd and LP will sound soooo much better though. These streams are pretty low quality mp3s. You can hear the compression and some clipping here and there.

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