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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
Product Description
One of the most influential bands in music, ranked eighth on the list of the biggest-selling groups in history, Metallica unveils its ninth studio album, Death Magnetic. The band's
first album in five years, Death Magnetic is also its first with renowned producer Rick Rubin (Danzig, Slayer, System Of A Down,
Slipknot), first with bassist Robert Trujillo, and first on Warner Bros. Heavy and thrashy, unafraid to embrace the band's past yet move
into the future.
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 IMPRESSIVE ( ghost1369 )
I have to say I was shocked, stunned, on my first listen to this album. I had not idea that Metallica had any of their 80s sound left. I have been listening to, and a die hard follower of Metallica since 1985. After St. Anger, I did not know what to expect. After seeing the fallout of the band's recording on "Some Kind of Monster", I fully understood the raw sound of that album. Don't get me wrong, it was very heavy; and, unlike most other fans, I thoroughly enjoyed that album; but it was not the Metallica that any of us came to know and love in the 80s.
Death Magnetic, on the other hand, sounds like it could have been recorded right after ...And Justice For All! If you listen to AJFA and then Death Magnetic it is like a continuation of a theme. Metallica is back and doing what they do best, thrash and speed metal. Definitely, if not the best album they have ever put out, this one is very close. From the intensity of songs like "My Apocalypse" and "That Was Just Your Life" to the polished ballad that is "The Unforgiven III" there is not a song on this album that I couldn't get into, they even have an instrumental (Suicide & Redemption) and we haven't had one of those out of Metallica in 20 years!
Overall I couldn't be happier. I would recommend this to any Metallica fan out there and those that gave up on them after AJFA or The Black Album... give this a spin, you won't be disappointed!
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Bob Rock should be hung! ( dorazio100 )
I was very sceptical, and have stayed away from buying Death Magnetic based on the last 15 years of Metallica music. Then I heard the album from start to finish this weekend. I went out and picked it up the next morning.
The first 4 albums are excellent, and they were produced by Flemming Rasmussen. Then Bob Rock came in and turned the "good Metallica" switch off. Now Rick Rubin has been brought in and finally, the masterpiece that should have followed "...And Justice For All". Rick Rubin is a genius!
This album is very loud, progressive and fun to listen to. Death Magnetic is the album off the year, and easily makes Metallica the comebackk artist of the year. You won't be dissapointed.
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 Awful ... just AWFUL ( gooup )
This is probably the sorriest excuse for an album (second only to LOAD) that Metallica has excreted in their illustrious career. Oh, Cliff Burton must be spinning in his grave.
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Fantastic return to form. Should have come right after Justice. ( joesiegler )
I've been a Metallica fan for quite some time. The first album of theirs I bought was Ride the Lightning back in the early 80's. I've continued to buy all their releases, even through the time when most of their early fans abandoned them. You either liked the early stuff, and hated the post Black Album material, or you only liked the newer stuff. Hardly did you ever find a Metallica fan that liked both. I'm one of the latter. I liked both. They had a different feel on the latter albums, but I still liked it. Having said that, since I grew up with albums like Puppets & Justice, I did long for an album like that again. We sort of got it with St Anger (rather underrated), but Death Magnetic was it.
This is the album they should have made after And Justice For All. This feels like old school Metallica, yet with modern production values. Normally when I write one of these things, I say which tracks I like, and why. But I'm not doing that. This disc is totally solid (save for one song which I'll talk about in a bit) from front to back. The first track just starts off with that "WHAM", and it doesn't let you go. It's one of those discs that when I was listening to it in my truck and it finished, I just let it repeat. It's fantastic. Has the twin guitar sound, there's solos again, and we have some good Lars drums. By far and away, not even funny - the best thing since 1989.
The one track I don't care for is "The Unforgiven III". Musically it doesn't fit with anything else on the album. Now that I can deal with - most albums have a track that doesn't sound like the rest of the album. That's not why. I don't like it for two reasons. First, I just don't care for the tune. Secondly is the title. If you're going to bother calling something a "three", then it would stand to reason that it would bear some resemblance to the two previous entries that bear it's namesake. This does not. I totally fail to see why it's called "Unforgiven 3", it might as well been called "Random Other Song", and it would have worked better, I think.
However, that's just one track. All the others are bloody well fantastic. If you are a Metallica fan, and gave up on them awhile back - this is what you have wanted. It's a Metallica renaissance. Go get it.
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 Metallica needs a new mix engineer ( stevesed )
I can't really review the music on this album because the mix is so unbelievably horrible. Seriously this sounds like something a 14 year old would record in his garage.
Can you say "CLIPPING"? Is Metallica completely deaf? Can't they hear how bad of a job Fidelman and Scheps did to their work on such a basic task?
I suppose if you listen on cheap enough equipment you probably won't notice the problem.
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