New Metallica music

Beer is Life

Blabbermouth have posted up a complete mp3 of the new Metallica song played in Berlin.

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=53367

Im really liking this song and Ive hated everything since the black album. Rick Rubin hasnt even got involved yet. Cant wait for the new album, and I wonder if they play this on Sunday?

Would I be jumping the gun by saying Metallica are back baby?!?!

Agent Steel

If you're refering to first-four-albums Metallica, then no. You'll never be able to say they're back. That new song isn't even on a par with their self-titled release. It stinks of Load/Reload.

Beer is Life

Agent Steel wrote:

If you're refering to first-four-albums Metallica

I wouldnt go that far, but I mean back to writing good material. In my opinion anyway

Arucard

im siding with Agent Steel. just like the new Slayer song from yesterday, *nothing special*.

peter1892

It's OK - reminded me of 'Ain't My Bitch' off 'Load'. Nothing special though...

Steoob

lol terrible i actually had to turn it off after the second chorus

did anyone else think that james sounded alot like mustaine when he started singing first?

gizmo

Very Load-ish I think, basically its very MEH in my opinon.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

yeah, I wasn't all that impressed either. I think st.anger really poisoned my opinion of all 'tallica music, but we'll see how I feel when they release whatever they release next.

dimerocks

the solo reminds me so much of enter sandman for the first two sections!

Prezatch

dimerocks wrote:

the solo reminds me so much of enter sandman for the first two sections!

Yes, apart from the solo, the song sounds like something I was used to hearing at little battle of the bands gigs back when I was 16. Hetfield sounds terrible.

Although it is noticeably better than stuff from the last album, anything would surpass st.anger :rolleyes:

projectmayhem

i said this in the other thread, sounds like something from st.anger but with a solo. it's metallica trying to be metallica, rather then trying to be slipknot (i honestly think metallica heard slipknot, saw their sales and said "i'll have some of that tyvm")...

chupacabra

Quite simply its, St. Anger riffs + Load/Reload riffs + terrible singing + WAH WAH WAH WAH WAH WAH WAH WAH........solo + Some type of new **** there trying with wierd harmonies on one riff. Alls I can say is at least their trying, at the behest of some of us pre 90's Met fans.

mayordenis

a guys common,
i'm a pessimistic fan but some of you are being ridiculous,
firstly its far better than anything from st anger, load or reload.
secondly its a fairly poor recording,
i'm not expecting an particlarily good album but its fairly big step in the right direction.
Song itself is quite good.

chupacabra

mayordenis wrote:

a guys common,
i'm a pessimistic fan but some of you are being ridiculous,
firstly its far better than anything from st anger, load or reload.
secondly its a fairly poor recording,
i'm not expecting an particlarily good album but its fairly big step in the right direction.
Song itself is quite good.

To tell the truth alot of st. anger would have been very good had it not been for the very bad desicions made in regards to production, I never said I hated st. anger or load/reload I am merley expressing my point of view that the song is similar in musical style their most recent work.......and the singing is pretty damn bad, but hey like you said its a bad recording so ill hold final judgement till I hear it well produced on their album.

Scruff

listened to St.Anger form yesterday, only my second time listening to it from start to finish and it confirmed what i thought originally: its sh1te.

Liked a couple of songs of load and Re-load, didnt think they were that bad though not a patch on the previous albums.

Tar.Aldarion

Dear lord, the singing physically hurts me.

projectmayhem

here's some more pain, from the audience
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOfyt62zLsg

senordingdong

Even if it is just St.Anger with solo's, I'll still be looking forward to it.

Devious

Its hard to know really, it does seem like an improvement from Stanger but then again that wouldnt be too hard. The vocals are pretty dire though thats usually the case with their live performances, interestingto hear what a studio version sounds like. At least they've realised solos are integral, thank god!

senordingdong

Devious wrote:

The vocals are pretty dire though thats usually the case with their live performances, interestingto hear what a studio version sounds like. At least they've realised solos are integral, thank god!

Too true.

smog

uuughhh Vocals are muck !!! snare is better though

Mushy

Hmmm...from that last link, i can make out the same snare tones for Lars drums. UH OH! Thats not a good sign. And from that, i dont like it too much. Shall wait for an album version to judge it properly

Patricide

chupacabra wrote:

To tell the truth alot of st. anger would have been very good had it not been for the very bad desicions made in regards to production, I never said I hated st. anger or load/reload I am merley expressing my point of view that the song is similar in musical style their most recent work.......and the singing is pretty damn bad, but hey like you said its a bad recording so ill hold final judgement till I hear it well produced on their album.

Yea st. anger wasnt in itself a TERRIBLE album, i mean cmon rerecord the drums(they sound like utter ****e especially the snare) Change the lyrics(invisible kid anyone?) change around some guitar tones(there very not metallica like) and get some proper singing out of hetfield(although this last one were stuck with). Im not saying st anger was in anyway EXELLENt but itd be on par with load or reload easily.

faceman

Whether or not u like metallica's later albums no one can deny they know how to put on a great live show!

See ye on sunday!

lets not forget they're in the 40's now with kids n shoite! Cant sing bout leper messiah all their lives! lol

Sizzler

Even allowing for the live performance the vocals are a bit shaky to say the least.....listen to how the song opens....:o

Thank fook the solos have been brought back tho !

If this wasnt metallica and me wanting to hear the whole song I would have turned it off after a minute !

faceman

Jaysus that song goes on for a while all the same...! no doubt it will be changed before album is out. Remember the version of Fuel on cunning stunts? yeah it was shoite but the album version was better

Sizzler

Hopefully they kept the new dodgy new material for the German crowd and they keep the good stuff for us

Aard

That was bland. And terrible.

Devious

Patricide wrote:

Yea st. anger wasnt in itself a TERRIBLE album, i mean cmon rerecord the drums(they sound like utter ****e especially the snare) Change the lyrics(invisible kid anyone?) change around some guitar tones(there very not metallica like) and get some proper singing out of hetfield(although this last one were stuck with).

Yea, and if my auntie had balls she'd be my uncle

Zombienosh

As someone said before, it is very load-like, and I liked load, so I like this new song, Metallica just might manage to keep some self respect.....

Metacortex

The quality of the recording isn't the best. Its hard to make out the lyrics and the vocals sound bad.
But all in all a studio version might not sound so bad or even on a better recording. Maybe they'll play the song on Sunday and i'll be able to get a better idea of what its like.

ThaMasta

Def. some attempts at some old school riffage after the solo, which I liked.

Didnt care for the rest of it. Tune might not even make it onto the album anyway.

Praetorian

Drumming and the solo were cool. Singing was very lacklustre. I hope he's much more up for it at the weekend!

Patricide

The intro was very old metallica like, then after the stop it sounded very like a sikth song(but not in a good way) and then sucked real bad after that and then there was a solo very reminisant of sandman, still though Any solo is better than none(well mabey not slayer solos) it can only get better though right?

wanwarlock

sounds a lot like where st anger left off, but with a good solo in between. singing is crap... maybe it's because it's live + a bootleg.

*Tripper*

As a huge tallica fan, the vocals are pure ****. Simple as that!

ThaMasta

The vocals mean nothing to me. Its a new song, hes not goin to deliver it like he would one of the classics.

Im more concerned with the type of riffs he writing as an indication of where the album will go..Like I said the part after the solo is old school, the rest is Load era etc.

senordingdong

I like it, sounds like a several trains, each carrying sounds from a different Metallica era have collided.
Quality is ****e though.

Music4life

well I think it sounds **** but im not saying much until I hear the whole album

Cunning Alias

Wow that was pretty awful.The solo sounds ok and will probably sound better on the album(heres hoping). The overall standard is pretty crap though. With the last album and the downloading issue, im getting to the stage where I dont want to be a fan anymore. They should have quit after S&M.

Motley Crue

heard this one before and I have to say i was quite pleased

Bard

Mildly promising. Just mildly.

The upcoming album will be interesting.

r3nu4l

Solos sound great, rest sounds very much llike work in progress. Some of the rhiffs have promise but a lot of it sounds like they are simply experimenting with differet rhiffs to see what it sounds like.

Lyrics? Well, I'll have to listen again but sounds rubbish to me.

I hope this is just experimental and will be a lot shorter when it comes out.

I never thought I'd say this but I'm getting very fed up with waiting on Metallica to produce another good album. Justice was their last good album imo, The Black album had some good tracks but overall was good, not great.