Elidroth
06-08-2003, 12:01 PM
After so many years of buildup, the rehab, the in-fighting, the new member.. every old time Metallica fan had high hopes for the new CD. Sadly.. what is delivered is best compared to Metallica trying to be Korn with some occasional glimpses of their past. This thing is so bad it makes Load and Reload sound good.
First off.. the sound. This works for Korn. It is/was original for Korn. It is a cheap knockoff by Metallica.
The production.. This CD makes And Justice For All sound good. Don't get me wrong.. the songs on Justice were fantastic.. but this recording and mixing was not. St. Anger is even worse. Guitars are muddy, the bass is non-existant, and the drums.. dear god the drums.. Lars should be strung up by his toes for this shit. The snare is perhaps the worst recorded sound ever in the history of heavy music. It sounds like nothing more than an empty 55 gallon oil drum.
The music.. hmm.. this is the hard part. There are actually some good songs in here I think.. they're just so bogged down by the horrible production, and being tuned down to B or whatever.. that they're lost. I can only hope this stuff comes across better live.. cause on CD, it's trash.
It's so strange.. from a band that cut it's teeth on not giving a damn about what was popular, to the current version that simply caters to the 'hero of the day', Metallica has become exactly what they despised; a whore to the trend.
Alas poor Metallica.. I knew him..
First off.. the sound. This works for Korn. It is/was original for Korn. It is a cheap knockoff by Metallica.
The production.. This CD makes And Justice For All sound good. Don't get me wrong.. the songs on Justice were fantastic.. but this recording and mixing was not. St. Anger is even worse. Guitars are muddy, the bass is non-existant, and the drums.. dear god the drums.. Lars should be strung up by his toes for this shit. The snare is perhaps the worst recorded sound ever in the history of heavy music. It sounds like nothing more than an empty 55 gallon oil drum.
The music.. hmm.. this is the hard part. There are actually some good songs in here I think.. they're just so bogged down by the horrible production, and being tuned down to B or whatever.. that they're lost. I can only hope this stuff comes across better live.. cause on CD, it's trash.
It's so strange.. from a band that cut it's teeth on not giving a damn about what was popular, to the current version that simply caters to the 'hero of the day', Metallica has become exactly what they despised; a whore to the trend.
Alas poor Metallica.. I knew him..