"I've heard 6 of the 10 songs on the new album. Obviously the remaining 4 that I haven't heard may be so good or so bad that they change the verdict of the whole album, so I can't comment on the album as a whole. However, rest assured that it's the best thing they've done since the Black Album."
"That said, there are some boring songs! It ain't Master Of Puppets by a long way."
"One thing you'll be pleased to hear is that the production is excellent."
"Cyanide is one of the poorer songs, there are some better ones in my opinion."
"Of the 6 songs I heard, one is excellent, fast thrash metal; two are OK; and three are kind of crap. Cyanide is one of the crap ones."
"It sounds like a mixture of AJFA and TBA on some of the faster, more exciting, riffy songs, and a bit like the Loads on some of the more boring, pointless songs."
"It sounds like the Loads in parts, but more like TBA and AJFA."
"It destroys St Anger, don't worry about that!"
"DM kills ST. A! Sounds like a mix of TBA and AJFA"
"I give the songs I've heard 6 out of 10 (if Puppets is 10 and St Anger is 1)."
"Production is like TBA, some of the riffs are progressive like AJFA, some of the worse songs sound like Load."
Joel McIver.