METALLICA - "Death Magnetic"
I am looking forward to hearing this, as I think most all metal fans are, even just out of curiosity. Two things from my perspective so far...
1) The title. For some reason I'm disapointed that a metal band in their 40's chose to use the word 'death' in their album title. Doing this in your 20's, sure, fine. But for guys of their level of maturity and life experience, I guess I had hoped for a title reflecting a little more life insight and well, maturity. 'Death Magnetic' makes me think that they're trying to have us believe that it can be 1985 all over again (I was 5 in 1985). Is there not more to the life's work of history's biggest metal band than the idea of death? Lastly, those two words don't even sound right next to each other. WTF does it mean? Maybe the lyrics will help make sense of it and the meaning will blow me away...We'll see!
2) The art. A band with such ressources...and this is what they choose. Fuck. Unacceptable. I'm not a graphic designer, but I bet Mike Eyesickle could create something like this in 10 seconds. It just doesn't show much effort and for me, 'effort' is what I want to see at this point! The title says "METAL!" but the art says "I'm afraid to wear a shirt with a skull on it". The first four Metallica album covers all make great, recognizable shirts! If this a return to the old school metal sound or whatever, why can't we have a new PusHead design of something cool! Not just fucking black letters on a grey background. Can you actually imagine a room full of people looking at that cover and saying "Oh yeah, that's the one, were finished here".
There, I'm a fan, and I'm interested in this.
Please discuss!