New Metallica song "The Day that Never Comes"

[Zephyrus]

Garbage.

 

[Belligerent]

Hopefully this is the last Metallica thread ever.

 

[Cythraul]

Garbage.

.

 

[waif]

I kinda liked that fuzzy sound, I hope it's not just a trick played on my senses by poor MySpace quality.

As for the song itself... Utterly unremarkable.

I suspect it's myspace quality issues...

I liked it, it's not great by any means. But I enjoy how they are doing solo's again. I would say overall I'd give the song a 6.5/10

6 for me, but I agree about the solos.

I keep hearing samples of thrash sounding stuff, so I'm hoping that there are some good songs on the new album.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

People should really quit judging Metallica albums based on how thrashy they sound.

 

[waif]

Okay, by thrash I meant "fast and aggressive metal that isn't a whiny retread of load."

 

[The Ozzman]

People should really quit judging Metallica albums based on how thrashy they sound.

This.

 

[The Ozzman]

Okay, by thrash I meant "fast and aggressive metal that isn't a whiny retread of load."

We're you really expecting them to do thrash songs?

 

[Winter.]

My thoughts on this, as I was listening:

Holy shit, lead guitar.
Still boring. When do distorted guitars come in, or is this album all slow songs?
Got better here. Decent clean arpeggio stuff.
UGH...is that Hetfield?
Better than Stanger. But still...maybe over distorted?
There we go. Much better. Not bad now, actually. Sweet, more leads.
Fuck, it went soft again.
These lyrics are kinda silly. At least he doesn't end every line with "-ah"
wait, yes he does
How about some of those thrash-sounding songs we heard in that video they had up?
Also, why does this sound shitty? I mean, the actual sound, it's pretty bad...kinda fuzzy. I dunno. Don't think it's my headphones.
This just got gay.
Now it's not totally gay, just lame.
Solo plz?
There we go. Good solo now?
Nope.
You'd think after all these years lars could come up with a more interesting beat. At least he's not using trash cans anymore.
This song bites, but at least the album won't blow as much as Stanger.
Oh, hey, good solo. More like it. Reminds me of the solos on The Black Album, or maybe Ride. In a good way.
How long must this faggotry continue? This is like over 7 minutes without any killer riffs or good vocal lines.
So when they write these songs, do they actually think they're good? Because that'd be sad. But if they realize this stuff sucks...
Whatever. Had enough.

Pretty much sums it up for me too. It is an improvement, but still nothing special.

 

[waif]

We're you really expecting them to do thrash songs?

Considering that I heard them doing thrash songs, yes.

 

[The Ozzman]

I don't consider a bunch of riffs thrown together to be a 'song' but okay

 

[waif]

Well, playing thrash riffs. K?

 

[False Joe]

It's not terrible.
It's just not amazing.
Probably worth a download.

And I miss Hetfields MOP/RTL/KEM voice

 

[whiskey funeral]

Way, way better than I expected, but still not amazing.

This is correct.

 

[ivry91]

Sounds alittle better then most Hard Rock mainstream.

 

[WhiteRaven]

Against the Elements is the best Metallica (read: Beyond the Embrace) album that's come out in years.

 

[Satanstoenail]

Oh man that's fucking terrible.

"Love is a four letter wooooordddddah!"

 

[The Ozzman]

Against the Elements is the best Metallica (read: Beyond the Embrace) album that's come out in years.

Beyond the Embrace is great. Too bad they got rid of their original vocalist.

I would say Insect Song sounds more like Metallica than Against the Elements does

 

[ssaammaael]

For me the song has three parts:

1) Slow start, a little melodic. A lot of Load an Reload sound here. IMHO Load and Reload sucks ... so I didn't like it.
2) The second part, a little more heavy with vocals. Very good riff in the middle, the best part of the song.
3) The third instrumental part. Cool for Metallica to try this kind of stuff again. The problem is that the music sounds very uninspired. Yes, Kirk put a solo here, but not a great solo.

Overall, the song is better than anything from St Anger. But that's not exactly difficult to acomplish for Metallica, because St Anger is a very bad album. I think this is song at Load's level, and I am still waiting for a song at Justice or Master level.

 

[nizzon]

Was a bit surprised to see complaints about the vocals. I mean, have you heard how he sounds live these days? His voice is kinda fucked up, considering this I think he sounds fucking fantastic in this song.