“The Day That Never Comes”, a beautifully written song with perfection being performed live here on the Jools Holland show for the BBC.

Enjoy.

Kev

I’ve thought about reviewing the “Death Magnetic” CD to this blog. But I’ve already said the things of what I’ve liked about the album before. I love the album too damn much, that there is really no need for a review. I mean, fuck, “Death Magnetic” almost feels like a Led Zeppelin album, that’s how amazing it really is.

But if I wanted to review it, I would say this that James Hetfield’s singing is just fantastic, Hetfield can’t sing like he used to back in the 80’s but the man was in his 20’s back in those days. Now Hetfield is in his 40’s and he’s been in Metallica for way over 20 years, pretty much his whole life he’s been in the band. But James’s vocals have improved greatly and the man sings with so much emotion and sadness in “Death Magnetic” and you can really hear the emotion in his singing. Reading the lyrics in the booklet, the lyrics are so dark and pretty intense. Is James going through some tough, depressing and emotional times these days? That’s what it seems like with the sound of his lyrics.

Kirk Hammett’s guitar solos are always great as usual. The man is just an incredible guitar player and he’s been a favorite guitar player of mine for years.

Rob Trujillo’s bass playing is just crazy as hell. I am now glad that Jason Newsted doesn’t play with them anymore. Trujillo defines the new Metallica!

Lars Ulrich drumming on “Magnetic”. Holy shit! Lars is such a monster on the drums! This is the best drumming Lars has ever done on any Metallica album. He’s a powerhouse on the drums in “Magnetic”, that Lars almost plays like John Bonham of Led Zep. Lars drumming has improved since the last couple of albums.

“Death Magnetic” is such a masterpiece, a beautifully written album, I am amazed and feel goosebumps everytime I listen to the thing. I don’t have a favorite song on the album, I fucking love them ALL!!!!!

In 2008, the music industry is starting to fail and go down the toilet. Radiohead came out with “In Rainbows”, I was blown away by that record too, Radiohead was starting to shake up the industry but when Metallica came out with the new album, I suddenly forgot the rest of the new music that happened in today’s industry. Metallica is here to save mainstream music.

People asked me for a review of the album, but for some reason, I just can’t get one down since I love the album too damn much. So there you have it. This is why I didn’t review the album yet.

Kev

While Metallica fans are happy that the band finally made a great album after all these years, it seems that there is one thing missing that the fans aren’t happy with. When the band released “Death Magnetic” for Guitar Hero video game, the fans aren’t happy that the video game version of “Death Magnetic” sounds much better than the CD quality.

More on it here:

http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2008/09/18/fans-complain-after-death-magnetic-sounds-better-on-guitar-hero-than-cd/

The way I see it, no matter how Metallica tries their best to make the fans happy, the fans will always find something to complain about Metallica. If you complain about Metallica, screw you, that means you aren’t a true Metallica fan.

Of course the video game version is supposed to sound much better than the CD version. It’s a video game, everyone should know that video games are supposed to sound better. Aerosmith made their own Guitar Hero and Aerosmith songs on that game sounds much better on CD, you don’t see Aerosmith fans whining and complaining about it.

They’re just haters trying to find something different to bitch about Metallica. I plan to get the Guitar Hero version myself of “Death Magnetic” soon.

People complaining about this are jealous losers who need to get a life and find a new hobby.

Kev

Saw the band posted this today:

http://www.metallica.com/index.asp?item=601312

To be honest, I don’t think that “Thank you” post was necessary. I’ll tell you why.

Us fans should be thanking the band for giving us what we wanted. We wanted the true Metallica giving us our metal back and they gave us exactly that. Everyone can now love Metallica again like we all did back in the “Master of Puppets” and “Black Album” days.

So James, Kirk, Lars, and Rob, you shouldn’t be thanking us. We should be thanking you. So if there is anyway we can all thank you for the kick ass album you gave us, I’d say, I do it right here whether you boys in Metallica are reading this or not.

Thanks Metallica! You guys deserve the positive side in your career and once again, congratulations to Metallica! Yeah! Is “Death Magnetic” Grammy worthy for “Album of the Year”? I say, “hell yeah”.

Kev