Should metallica have released a best of album instead of Death Magnetic?
Personally i detest the new album, i would have much preferred a best of album with a few of their favorite new songs thrown in. They could have made it like the ultimate collection and had a double disc with all their greatest songs. Because lets face it metallica have an amazing repertoire but they also have alot of stinkers of alot of albums. So what would be better then alll their good stuff and a few new songs.
I dunno what do you think?
First, let me say that I've been a fan since the mid-80s so I have a little perspective here. Also a musician for over 25 years, playing metal and Hard Rock professionally, so I understand the artistry in question here. Love it or hate it, Death Magnetic is an attempt by the band to become the Metallica their hardcore fans have been dying for. Rubin asked them to do something as great as Master. Did they achieve that? No. But they did make an effort, and it is Better Than much of the stuff they have done since the Black Album. It is somewhere between . . . And Justice and the Black album.
But, it doesn't really stand up to their best work. It is an attempt, I think, to build upon the glory of Master of Puppets, but if you really put them next to each other, the new album sounds like garbage -- by itself, it is fine, but it is nowhere near the glory of old. Hetfield's lyrics are not up to par; his younger self, while brash, would never have written stuff like "Mangled flesh, snapping spines/ Dripping bloody valentine/ Shattered face, spitting glass." Ever since the Bob Rock experience, his lyrics have been embarrassingly personal. And once Metallica became vulnerable, they never recovered.
Death Magnetic is a meditation on death-- but so is every other Metallica record. The best ones spit in the face of death; this album instead finds aging men trying to reclaim their youth. I feel for them, and I will always love their old stuff, but they have been a long painful slide downward since the death of Cliff. Death Magnetic is, alas, their death knell. On this album, they tried their hardest to get back the fire. They did an admirable job of trying, but the fact is -- this album doesn't even sound better than other 80s thrash bands at their prime, let alone Metallica at their prime. Metallica should acknowledge -- as they did when they trashed the St. Anger tour and started playing their old albums in concert -- that they had 4 Very Good albums -- and that's it. (Black album was their commerical success, but it wasn't their creative peak).
I think the Metallica I love so much is gone. The best that this band can offer has already been recorded -- a LONG time ago. They have changed as individuals and as musicians and the magic is gone.
A best of album? I think that is probably more your desire to hear the old Metallica again -- that is, when the band was really the best around, no competition. But that band is gone.
Having said that, I wouldn't mind hearing the Justice album remixed so I can hear Jason's bass.
My friend -- I feel your sadness here. But the fire is gone. That's why Metallica plays primarily their 80s stuff in concert. Because THAT is their best stuff. THAT is the Metallica that made them legends.
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