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devildriver wrote: »

Anybody want a box set of Live CDs from 2014?

For the bargain price of $417!!!!

http://www.metallica.com/products/live-metallica-by-request-2014-box-set.asp

:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

What the hell is this crap? And there's not even an Irish show in there anywhere :rolleyes:

Motley Crue wrote: »

I still haven't brought myself to actually watch the film all the way through. Through The Never, I seen the other "film" years ago - in the cinema if I recall correctly - remember feeling a slight shame that my favourite band were just allowing everyone to see all these personal workings...especially when it wasn't really our business, it was there business. That being said, I did buy a ticket to go and see the film, so I am partly to blame. I could have ignored it.

Haven't watched it since mind....and can't bring myself to watch this newer one either

I mean, Quebec Magnetic is a perfectly normal release from a music band...IMO Through The Never or Some Kind of Monster is not...next we'll have 'Metallica Saves Santa' or something KISS-esque lol

Some Kind of Monster was, with the whole Napster thing, a double whammy that really reduced Metallica's coolness in the early 2000s. Yeah, TBA and Load had previously hurt them with a small section of fans, but these two events had really damaged their wider public image and painted them as whiny, neurotic rock stars obsessed with money, who took their fame for granted and were slipping inexorably into middle-aged domestication. James doesn't drink?! Lars is a smug art-dealer in his spare time?! Kirk is a passive follower?! They go to therapy???!! Who the hell is this guy on bass??! Bob Rock?! Wasn't he with the Payola$???!! etc. It was a really ballsy move to bare all like that, and maybe a bit stupid too, but I still respect the decision to it. I wouldn't have taken it. I'd have clammed the fk up.

briany wrote: »

Some Kind of Monster was, with the whole Napster thing, a double whammy that really reduced Metallica's coolness in the early 2000s. Yeah, TBA and Load had previously hurt them with a small section of fans, but these two events had really damaged their wider public image and painted them as whiny, neurotic rock stars obsessed with money, who took their fame for granted and were slipping inexorably into middle-aged domestication. James doesn't drink?! Lars is a smug art-dealer in his spare time?! Kirk is a passive follower?! They go to therapy???!! Who the hell is this guy on bass??! Bob Rock?! Wasn't he with the Payola$???!! etc. It was a really ballsy move to bare all like that, and maybe a bit stupid too, but I still respect the decision to it. I wouldn't have taken it. I'd have clammed the fk up.

Unless I have misinterpreted the context here, that is one of the most irresponsible things I have read for a while. Do you think that it is "uncool" that an alcoholic has given up booze and attended therapy for help to do so.

briany wrote: »

You are misinterpreting the context. If you take that section in full :



The second bit of that section, I thought, would show that I was doing an unreliable narrator sort of thing. A fan having a bad reaction to seeing Metallica handling sensitive issues and behaving in ways a bit divorced from the typical tough image that metal bands have.

I think I know what you mean. If you weren't part of the drink/drugs, you weren't perceived as real metal.

Sorry bout that. I misconstrued it as coming from yourself.

28 years ago today since Cliff Burton was tragically taken from this world, but he'll always be remembered for his work on Kill 'Em All, Ride The Lightning & Master Of Puppets.

Metallica have been announced for Rock In Rio 2015 being held in Las Vegas.

jack presley wrote: »

Hopefully it won't be an 'Escape from the Studio' and they'll actually have the album finished by then!

Surely to god they'd have the new album wrapped up before May 2015, I mean it doesn't exactly take that long to record an album, assuming they've done the writing/demo process already.

jack presley wrote: »

God only knows what other distractions they'll find between now has then. There might be a chance they can play a gig on the moon or something that'll focus all their efforts.

I wish their management would say no more distractions and have them focus all their energy on the new album, it's been 6 years now since Death Magnetic.
Unless their stalling on the new album a la Axl with Chinese Democracy

jack presley wrote: »

I think their management company like them touring as it keeps the cash flow ticking over. They're probably as much to blame for the time since DM as the band themselves.

I suppose that's true in a sense as touring nowadays is more the money is made. But hopefully we'll have album #10 early next year.

Ever since the Black Album - Metallica studio sessions have tended to be drawn out affairs that have in some cases been physically and mentally draining for the band. You can't help but wonder if that is a process that they (Hetfield, in particular) are prepared to endure anymore.

Even the relatively painless experience of recording DM took over 12 months of studio time to complete. For all the noise coming out of Lars about a follow up I wouldn't be at all suprised if Death Magnetic proves to be the final studio album the band ever make.

Lithium93_ wrote: »

I'd say maybe Metallica have 2 more album after studio album #10

Going by their current rate of progress that would mean writing and recording music when almost into their sixties. I don't see it.

Being realistic they have one more proper studio album left. I can see five more years of touring peppered with live albums/movies and the occasional repackaged box set. But after that I can see James hanging it up for good.

Also, I wonder what the band and their management made of U2/Apple making their album available for free to Iphone 6 users?

God i hope Lars or Metallica's management get any ideas and go the U2 route when it comes time to release their new album

Stick Disposable Hero's into the set there lads!