I've been bashing Metallica since the Load album ---- not because they are "sell-outs", I've got no problem with bands changing their sound, as they grow older and expanding their audience base. I've bashed them because I personally did not like any of the music past the Black Album. I just got done listening to this new track, and I am actually pretty excited for a Metallica album for the first time in more then a decade. When I heard their version of Remember tomorrow, i figured the only reason I actually heard the bass was because it was a Maiden cover, and you can't hide the bass their. But I actually can hear the bass in this song,
thats great. I'm glad they are letting us actually hear Rob's playing, I wish they would have done the same with Jason. Continuing on the mix, Lars' drums actually sound like drums and not like he's playing on garbage cans, as a matter of fact the muddy (shitty) mix they have had for the past decade now seems to be gone and everything sounds nice and crisp.
I'm not ready to call this a return to form to their 80's sound, but in my humble opinion what I have heard so far is the best stuff I have heard from the guys in forever.
I'm pumped. I haven't bought a Metallica cd since the Black album, wait crap, I did buy S&M, but that don't count as new material. I 'm probably going to actually go buy this one.
