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Daniel
Haha, spinning Testament as we speak, looking at my Testament ticket for 26 September also sitting in front of me. Prime or not, I know who I'd rather be seeing and listening to nowdays.
Cyanide - Metallica
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Ermz
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Well put, Dan. Almost hard to believe that Testament are still putting out material that competes with anything out there, whereas Metallica are spending all this time and money churning out shit that doesn't even contend with most of the local pub acts I know.
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I used to hold regard Metallica in such high esteem and do the same thing... However, due to albums like Load, Re-Load, and St. Anger, I will NOT be wasting my money buying it without first hearing it. Perhaps i'll wait until it leaks on Youtube and give it a listen there :Smug:
HeadCrusher
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wishtheend
clip the apex
The snare has that 'twoiiing!' quality...
All that technicians and the don't keep in tension the snare properly...
Genius Gone Insane
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I fucken hate metallica like my exgirlfriend who dumped me for my neighbor. But I'm still impressed with this song. It seems to rock a little.
Chryst Krispies
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Metal's supposed to get u charged up and get pissed. This song is so bad that it did it for me beyond redemption. well done fellas.
Metallica does not have it in them anymore, so be it. There will never be another AJFA equivalent and we can't expect the same intensity from someone that doesn't feel that same way anymore.
And here's one last thing you can actually do and give back to the fans that really dug you for what you stood for back then. Release a remastered AJFA, bury the hatchet and make Jason Newsted's bass more apparent.
There will always be new acts out there that are hungry for success and putting out ground breaking material. Its just a natural cyclical progression of bands that come and go and Metallica has had their share of making a significant contribution.
Blackened is the End
Winter it will send
Throwing all you see
Into obscurity
Rust in Peace Metallica.
Metallica does not have it in them anymore, so be it. There will never be another AJFA equivalent and we can't expect the same intensity from someone that doesn't feel that same way anymore.
And here's one last thing you can actually do and give back to the fans that really dug you for what you stood for back then. Release a remastered AJFA, bury the hatchet and make Jason Newsted's bass more apparent.
There will always be new acts out there that are hungry for success and putting out ground breaking material. Its just a natural cyclical progression of bands that come and go and Metallica has had their share of making a significant contribution.
Blackened is the End
Winter it will send
Throwing all you see
Into obscurity
Rust in Peace Metallica.
SickBoy
Croatian Panzer division
If it wasn't Metallica, nobody would give a damn about this tune...
But since it is, now the topic has 3 pages and counting.
But since it is, now the topic has 3 pages and counting.
Finally listened to Cyanide yesterday. I recognised it straight away from the little montage type clip that was 'leaked' a month or two back. I thought it was the weakest part of the clip, even then...
To be frank, it just gets on my nerves. Their ideas on the track just seem to be quite annoying to me, almost like you can sense they're trying too hard. The one hooky rhythm in it, the part under 'Suicide, I've already died' in particular, really didn't need Hetfield latching on to it, but the end of that particular passage is a nice touch, without doubt. I prefer the now 2 year old 'Death Is Not The End' to this. There's also a really nice, semi-fucked-up rhythmic bit towards the end which could have used some mega use of the drum kit (SOME toms would have been nice...), instead of Lars accenting the rhythm with just the snare, failed oppourtunity to shine right there, he pussied out of doing something tricky.
I liked St Anger once I detached it from thinking I was listening to Metallica. If I wrote and released that album (NOT as is, I might add), I'd be quite proud of it. I'd say it could stand to have a remix and remaster to really make it shine, but the actual performances on it are shit, so I'll take it as it comes. I get the feeling that each song was just bunched together with different riffs recorded over that course of a few years, and I dislike that approach and the general lax attitude to the whole recording process shown on Some Kind of Monster (Hetfield tracking vocals with his kid on his knee? Take it fuckin seriously, man, come on...).
I've been a Metallica fan for longer than I can remember. The Black Album came out when I was four years old, and my brother bringing it home is remembered as possibly being one of my earliest memories. Hetfield in particular inspired me massively, and they could not put a step wrong with anything they done prior to The Black Album. One of the reasons I can stomach Load and Re-load was that I was young, and probably too naive for it to occur to me that they might be garbage, and in hind sight, they're not even nearly comparable to 80's 'Tallica.
That being said, I'm coming to terms with the distinct possibility that this album will be shite after hearing that tune.
To be frank, it just gets on my nerves. Their ideas on the track just seem to be quite annoying to me, almost like you can sense they're trying too hard. The one hooky rhythm in it, the part under 'Suicide, I've already died' in particular, really didn't need Hetfield latching on to it, but the end of that particular passage is a nice touch, without doubt. I prefer the now 2 year old 'Death Is Not The End' to this. There's also a really nice, semi-fucked-up rhythmic bit towards the end which could have used some mega use of the drum kit (SOME toms would have been nice...), instead of Lars accenting the rhythm with just the snare, failed oppourtunity to shine right there, he pussied out of doing something tricky.
I liked St Anger once I detached it from thinking I was listening to Metallica. If I wrote and released that album (NOT as is, I might add), I'd be quite proud of it. I'd say it could stand to have a remix and remaster to really make it shine, but the actual performances on it are shit, so I'll take it as it comes. I get the feeling that each song was just bunched together with different riffs recorded over that course of a few years, and I dislike that approach and the general lax attitude to the whole recording process shown on Some Kind of Monster (Hetfield tracking vocals with his kid on his knee? Take it fuckin seriously, man, come on...).
I've been a Metallica fan for longer than I can remember. The Black Album came out when I was four years old, and my brother bringing it home is remembered as possibly being one of my earliest memories. Hetfield in particular inspired me massively, and they could not put a step wrong with anything they done prior to The Black Album. One of the reasons I can stomach Load and Re-load was that I was young, and probably too naive for it to occur to me that they might be garbage, and in hind sight, they're not even nearly comparable to 80's 'Tallica.
That being said, I'm coming to terms with the distinct possibility that this album will be shite after hearing that tune.
smy1
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I don't like the "Cyanide" tune, but what makes me laugh is when I see the Sylosis studio videos and compare them to the Mission Metallica clips.
You see this half-unknown band, recording in a tiny studio and nailing everything and making everything sound good with ease, while on the other hand you see this ultra-successful 100-million-records-sold metalmonster who can't play their own songs, can't get their own leads fixed in the mix and simply don't know how their tracks go. It's insane to see the amount of scenes on Mission Metallica where they are completely clueless. Hetfield going "Oh, well, I didn't think this song would be that hard to sing, I think I need to really practice this" or the producer going "I really don't know how to fix this Hammett-lead" and Ulrich answering "can't you just put it in there so it has some natural vibe?". Or Hetfield debating whether a song should have 2 verses and sound more "black album" or 3 verses and go more in the direction of MOP.
I think going through tracks riff by riff in pre-production is fine and dandy, but once you are in the studio you should know what you want and how you want it and just hammer it out with conviction ...
You see this half-unknown band, recording in a tiny studio and nailing everything and making everything sound good with ease, while on the other hand you see this ultra-successful 100-million-records-sold metalmonster who can't play their own songs, can't get their own leads fixed in the mix and simply don't know how their tracks go. It's insane to see the amount of scenes on Mission Metallica where they are completely clueless. Hetfield going "Oh, well, I didn't think this song would be that hard to sing, I think I need to really practice this" or the producer going "I really don't know how to fix this Hammett-lead" and Ulrich answering "can't you just put it in there so it has some natural vibe?". Or Hetfield debating whether a song should have 2 verses and sound more "black album" or 3 verses and go more in the direction of MOP.
I think going through tracks riff by riff in pre-production is fine and dandy, but once you are in the studio you should know what you want and how you want it and just hammer it out with conviction ...
Gnash
Lefty
Yeah. I feel like this is something new from them that I'm gonna dig, rather than FORCE myself to listen to and dig it, to no avail. Like "Loads."
Nebulous
Daniel
I agree. The actual song aside, the band have really let themselves be presented in completely clueless and lost manner. Maybe it's supose to make us think that "they're donig something new" or "they're going back to X sound".
Bull fuck!
"Oh man, we have these-ah ideas-ah, but don't know what to do-ah with them-ah!"
Don't they go a weird away around writing and do it on the spot? or something like that?
dan weapon
Planet Smasher
On cyanide; the bit after the second chorus, and before the clean bridge really reminds me of Psychotron by Megadeth - in as much as it has that potential phrygian feel to it where you want it to burst into a wicked key and time change with a sweet solo - but then it kinda doesn't, it just goes to the clean section (in Psychotron's case it just goes back into the verse instead of picking up in any way)
I actually prefer the song on third listen - it's still not great by any means but I could imagine myself listening to it more than never which is precisely how often I listened to St Anger after the initial spin and resulting collapse into the corner of my room in utter dispair and disgust.
I actually prefer the song on third listen - it's still not great by any means but I could imagine myself listening to it more than never which is precisely how often I listened to St Anger after the initial spin and resulting collapse into the corner of my room in utter dispair and disgust.
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