METALLICA - DEATH MAGNETIC

Haven't got it yet, but I was there at that show when they recorded it.

Heres a post on Russ Andrews site about the new Metallica album ~

http://www.russandrews.com/viewindex.asp?article_id=loudness_war_reaction

I must admit, I HATE the production on it (Though still marginally better than the last album)

download the guitar hero 3 version.  although pretty annoying when you've already bought the cd.

I confess I'm no fan of heavy metal (altho' I did kinda like what I heard from Metallica on "Later...with Jools Holland"), but this album seems to be getting loads of publicity...for the appallingly over compressed CD.

However it does appear the CD is so bad that it's bringing the 'loudness war' complaints away from a minority of audiophiles, to the attention of the mainstream general public - which hopefully may mean some record company folks may take notice and do something about this decade old problem...well, we can hope!

This album is so bad that Radio 4's "You and Yours" did a piece about it. Metallica on Radio 4, what is the world coming to?

Still, the CD is selling brilliantly and only 16,000 fans have signed a petition calling for the album to be remastered or remixed, and only a minority of those are sending their CDs back to the record company; so it's highly likely that nothing will change - huge shame.

Cheers,
Tony

Heres an online petition

http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/re-mix-or-remaster-death-magnetic.html

I dont agree that the album is too compressed, i suspect a lot of what people are attributing to the CD actually occured on stomp boxes between guitar and amp, pre-production.
I also dont beleive that an act with the muscle in the industry that Metallica have would allow something to be released with which they are uncomfortable, and that what we are hearing is their intended vision as artists. We are listening to what metallica want us to hear.

http://mikemelancholic.blogspot.com/

a bit late but i might send it back as well as it is poor.

TheLastManWithBetamax:

I dont agree that the album is too compressed, i suspect a lot of what people are attributing to the CD actually occured on stomp boxes between guitar and amp, pre-production.
I also dont beleive that an act with the muscle in the industry that Metallica have would allow something to be released with which they are uncomfortable, and that what we are hearing is their intended vision as artists. We are listening to what metallica want us to hear.

I cant possibly agree with that ~ except for the whole 'Metallica WANT us to hear it like that', as clearly they do

First up ~ the actual SOUND ENGINEER hates it (Obviously FORCED into making it sound like it does)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/sep/17/metallica.guitar.hero.loudne...

Also, the GUITAR HERO version sounds infinitely better ~ clearly demonstrating that that the original recordings were of 'sound' quality

http://mastering-media.blogspot.com/2008/09/metallica-death-magnetic-sou...

St Anger was even WORSE to my ears, and yet the free dvd whereby theyre jamming together sounds awesome (which is what were SUPPOSED to hear on the cd)

 They even apologised for st angers terrible production and PROMISED to get it right for the next album (Death Magnetic)!!

A slight aside.

They're coming back to the U.K next year.

Tickets go on sale this Friday. I know they're playing The Dome....Sorry..The O2, on March 2nd. I'm not sure about the other venues or dates though.


Bet it's gonna cost more than a fiver this time around!!