The Official Metallica - Death Magnetic Thread

MetalGuy71 wrote:

Bump.

Nothing to add here. Just want to keep this thread going. It was starting to dip. I wanna see 50 pages, people, STAT!

I could post some more .wav forms and overall audio geekery if that would make you happy.

detuned wrote:

MetalGuy71 wrote:

Bump.

Nothing to add here. Just want to keep this thread going. It was starting to dip. I wanna see 50 pages, people, STAT!

I could post some more .wav forms and overall audio geekery if that would make you happy.

Sure - show us the difference between the audio of DM and MoP

thejokeriv wrote:

Sure - show us the difference between the audio of DM and MoP

Don't tempt me.

MetalGuy71 wrote:

Bump.

Nothing to add here. Just want to keep this thread going. It was starting to dip. I wanna see 50 pages, people, STAT!

Can I help.

detuned wrote:

thejokeriv wrote:

Sure - show us the difference between the audio of DM and MoP

Don't tempt me.

go ahead, might as well.

I haven't post here in a while!

My dad just bought the album for me (What a great dad!) and yeah...I smurfing LOVE IT! I didn't like any Metallica's album after the Black Album but now that's another story! I think the song are a bit too long (Every song is like 7 to 9 minutes) but the rest is great.

Some guys over at a fishing forum I post at were going nuts over the new album. They hadn't bought it, but were listening via YouTube and they were freaking out about how they totally went back to their roots.

Then one of them posted all the videos for new album and even more of them were freaking out. Of course, they were all listening to Eternal Decision. Haha. As much as that guy could occasionally sound like Hetfield, 99% of the time he didn't sound like him. How is it that "Metallica fans" could miss this?

They aren't "Metallica fans", they're "fishing fans".

Just like I couldn't tell you sh!t about lures, they can't tell you sh!t about music.

spectrefate wrote:

They aren't "Metallica fans", they're "fishing fans".

Just like I couldn't tell you sh!t about lures, they can't tell you sh!t about music.

Anybody have a clue what James is talking about here?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvaB2na9HDs

This album plays much better on my MP3 player than on my car's player, the drums are not as distracting. After listening to ...And Justice For All I still believe the drums sound very similar.

METALLICA drummer Lars Ulrich has commented on the fan-generated controversy over the audio quality of the group's new album, "Death Magnetic".

Blame for the sound quality has been laid at the feet of the band itself, producer Rick Rubin and his recording engineer, Greg Fidelman.

In a brand new interview with Blender.com, Ulrich responded to the complaints by saying, "Listen, there's nothing up with the audio quality. It's 2008, and that's how we make records. Rick Rubin's whole thing is to try and get it to sound lively, to get it to sound loud, to get it to sound exciting, to get it to jump out of the speakers. Of course, I've heard that there are a few people complaining. But I've been listening to it the last couple of days in my car, and it sounds f*****' smokin'.

"Somebody told me about [people complaining that the Guitar Hero version of 'Death Magnetic' sounds better]. Listen, what are you going to do? A lot of people say [the CD] sounds great, and a few people say it doesn't, and that's OK. You gotta remember, when we put out '...And Justice for All', people were going, 'What happened to these guys, this record? There's no bass on it. It sounds like it was recorded in a f*****' garage on an eight-track.' And now '...And Justice for All' is sort of the seminal METALLICA record that supposedly influenced a whole generation of death-metal bands. The difference between back then and now is the Internet.

"The Internet gives everybody a voice, and the Internet has a tendency to give the complainers a louder voice. Listen, I can't keep up with this s***. Part of being in METALLICA is that there's always somebody who's got a problem with something that you're doing: 'James Hetfield had something for breakfast that I don't like.' That's part of the ride.

"I will say that the overwhelming response to this new record has exceeded even our expectations as far as how positive it is. So I'm not gonna sit here and get caught up in whether [the sound] 'clips' or it doesn't 'clip.' I don't know what kind of stereos these people listen on. Me and James made a deal that we would hang back a little and not get in the way of whatever Rick's vision was. That's not to put it on him — it's our record, I'll take the hit, but we wanted to roll with Rick's vision of how METALLICA would sound."

For once, Lars may just be right.

Death Magnetic FTI

The stereo in Lars' car probably costs more than all of my personal belongings...

I've said it before and I'll say it again; Lars is a dick.

Screw Lars.

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