Originally posted by Misanthrope
Im glad i hurt your feelings cause you deserve to be hurt if you take bullshit personal.
Lets make some points: Metalheads are all a bunch of idiots. I do not think that anyone here is a metalhead, there could be but everyone here is more open minded. Who cares about Metallica being metalheads? that just makes one more reason to hate them.
Second of all, have you ever even looked at the lyrics in kill em all? seriosly try wiplash THAT IS WHAT metallica was about clubs beer and whores and they admited it in a big number of ocations. Look at the cliff em all videos and see the Metallica fan there is a girl giving a guy a blowjob in the middle of the club, they take kirk's guitar and trash it to hell, this drunken idiots are the metalheads ? this is what metallica started as, rockstar band that enjoyed the cult-like following of a few bunch of idiots and posed with bullet belts and drinked beer for no other reason than to show their fans they are drunken idiots too. How is that music? how is that making an artistic expression? that is making music for the masses and catching the wave of crap it was going on those days being smart enough to change it a bit. That went on until Ozzy came to the rescue and put them in the map then the money was more serious and the fans more and more and the whores kept coming big time ( i mean is Ozzy we all know what was going on in those tours ).
What happens then? a fool dies in a truck accident cause they were probably pissed out drunk and the driver wasnt gonna be left out. So the poor talentless idiot that was a guitar player trapped within the confins of a bass died. What do you do mourn his death? No, get an even more patetic bassplayer to manipulate? yes. How do you do the next album? keep the formula long pointless songs so you can have the "buuhuu the radio does not wants us" attitute. Now they say the hell with it party is over we almost got a grammy out of our stupid talentless 10 minute songs crap lets take the wave again, so they do a short catchy songs to go along with the noise of the time, Gnr where the soft ones and Metallica the hard ones just like todays music in wich Linkin park are the soft ones and Slipknot the hard ones. They got this rock idiot bigtime producer to do an exact formula and their are foolish enough to show how he manipulated the music and even the vocal style to get the sound the public was looking for. What do you do next? sit back and enjoy the cash from sales and tours, you do perhaps work in a new album? why should you if you are making millions. The wave is over gnr dies the market changes where do you go from here? what was going on in the load era? you got it Alternative music, you catch the alterno wave again being the Brutal band in the alternative scene, again a success why should you release or work in new songs when you can just play covers? you are so popular you can take a dump on the guitars record the sounds and every stupid fucking idiot fan like you will call it musical progression. Lets not forget how they followed this " its trendy to record with an orchesta" wave too and made their music sound even more simplistic and patetic. THIS is the metallica i know, the metallica i know so well cause i loved as a kid who like all kids was a moron, but i grew out of it and know the facts well. The only thing that please them is fame and everything that is needed to keep it like getting the atention of the public with the napster crap or posing for playboy counts.
Hetfield is your favorite rhythm guitar player? he is a musical genious? I hope Mikael reads this and laughs as hard as i am right now. how can you say that? you are telling me that a stupid blues player than has absolutely no technique and prides himself of doing some of the most stupid things ever like using downstrokes all the time because he CANT fucking play upstrokes and make it sound good is a genious for you? Lets go back to that example. When you use alternative picking you have a good sense of rhythm to correct your irregularities and compensate them until you acomplish a more standarized picking, getting this is hard and few people i heart master it like Chuck Schuldiner did, Niklas and Frederik back in the minds eye era, if you ever pick up a guitar try playing Zodiackyl light by DT of lack of compression by Death using nothing but downstrokes, and you tell me that is a good technique good enough to make you a genious. You just cant and the only thing you will acomplish is severe damage to your wrist, Hetfield is a fucking idiot who never learned the right way to pick his guitar and prided himself of develpoing speed in downstrokes thinking no one would notice how alternate picking are actually better and economical if you are good enough to PLAY them but he thinks he is better cause he plays like a 70's punk idiot and telling all the kids out there that is ok to hide behind it cause no one really knows what is best in guitar technique. THIS is your genious? What burton is a genius to? a stupid asshole that realized that guitars are supposed to have 6 strings after he already bought his first bass and just played bass like a guitar? what he could use his fingers? big deal anyone with 2 months of classical guitar traning can, he knew a lot about music? how come he never did something original and used the same boring rythms, the same scales over and over ( blues offshot scales ) the same boring thing that the guitar does over and over? the same harmony over and over doing nothing but fiths and 8ths so the guitars sound completly consonant and you dont make a mistake in the harmony? yea this guy is a musical genious. What about the drumming? i have never played drums for more than 5 consecutive minutes and i can play EVERY SINGLE FUCKING METALLICA SONG BY MEMORY ON DRUMS WITHOUT MISTAKES ok? and i suck at drums he is the most boring untalented and uncreative drummer to ever take a drumkit, he does nothing he has being doing the same thing over and over and never used a sincopated lick, never used some contratempo stuff, the only stuff that went outside his linear playing where obiously rooted in the guitar and just follows it like one just follows the picking.
The solos? Muddy waters could have been playing the exact same solos kirk hammer does about 60 years ago is just patetic blues, bending abuse, hiding behind wah, simplistic and boring tapping patterns, abuse of wammy bar beyond recognition, is the most overrated guitar player who has ever wins an award.
In conclusion you are just too stupid to see that Metallica is catchy crap with obious fame objectives and no technical ability at all. How is that even music? that is as much music as Britney spears to me and they deserve even less respect cause they pretended they lie about it and deny it all the time.
I'm not referring to Misanthrope here.. his post was just the excuse for what follows.. 
