The new single, "The Day That Never Comes", is available for streaming right now:
http://www.myspace.com/metallica

1:30 in and I stop it.
I said this in another thread and I have to apologize for being redundant but what exactly was Rick Rubin supposed to do????

Bring the "old shit" back i guess

Well he FAILED. by old shit I guess they meant load cause 1996 was a long time ago... fuck em all

wow, what a piece of shit that solo at the end is

Can I put up a fence that keeps them from releasing shitty music?

hetfield needs to put a barb wire fence up around every copy of the new album if it sounds like this

METALLIC FAIL IS EPIC FAILS UGLY COUSIN

couldn't even make it that far

metallica are like an sick old dog.......who youve should have "put down" awhile ago...waited to see if it gets better...but now its time

Can't agree more with you

Holy schnikies kid, this track is fukkin sic.

No wonder Cliff Burton left this band!

he should wrap barbed wire around his fucking throat. jesus christ this fucking sucks.

Honestly, I don't mind this. It sound like what good mainstream metal should sound like. It doesn't kick my ass but I might listen to this while I'm doing something else.

Why does anyone still care about this band?

hahahaha lars is such a bad drummer

no.

so awful....not surprised....at all.....and yeah, Lars fucking sucks!

I dunno. I really like "Enter Sandman."

haha. the metal-archives reviews (not like they matter)

http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=208463#135539

I made it about 2 minutes in.garbage.

why would they choose the slow ballad as their single?

atleast the drums aren't like the blue man group?
but they'd sound good in this song?
now they are just super triggered.
I don't know.... the guitar parts are the same in any as i lay dying harmonizing part.

at around four minutes it gets alittle thrashy?

old shit? WTF. The drums sound like they're in a closet, same old guitar sound. oh wait, a build up to a groove...that went nowhere. fuck dis

Did you listen to the whole song? fucking terrible

the dragonforce section made me LOL. I heard this on the radio with my dad in the car and even he said it sucked.

The first half was rather, um, "nice" which isn't exactly what I want out of a metal song. The second half was as drab as anything of Kill Em All. That's right, I said it.

you're dumb

No. Never again. I hate this band so much, it's tainted the love I had for the first four albums. I can barely listen to Master of Puppets without thinking "oh fuck, this is the same band that put out Saint Anger, fuck this" instead of "YES, Fuckin' Metallica!!! Fuckin' hammer of justice crushes you, fuckin' Die! Die! Die! Die!" What the fuck? What they need is another 4 tour bus rides through Sweden to straighten their shit out.

I hate to be that guy, but is this snare drum a practical joke? It sounds like some kid recorded the drums in his basement and recorded the snare way too hot. It sticks out and sounds so misplaced that I can't even listen to the "song."

No no, that was the last album, we're talking about the new single.

Lars is trying way too hard to be a good drummer on this song. The snare work is really annoying. James sounds better than he did on St. Anger; pitch manipulation or not. The bass is nice and rich and in the front of the mix. I like that. The riffage is almost there. The first few minutes are nothing special in the guitar work but after the 4 minute mark, things start to pick up and I like that. Progression has never been Metallica's strong point so making this an 8 minute song was pointless. After the 5 minute mark, they seemed to try to copy "One" and it didn't mesh right.

Overall, this is obviously better than that heap, St. Anger. I'm interested to hear the rest of it.

Is this song for real. The whole end sounds like they just recorded random riffs over a skank beat. No cohesion. Not that I expected to like it. Never been a fan. I just don't get it. Are they trying to be prog except without the writing ability to connect different sections?

ever heard and justice for all?
i don't understand why they think killing all the reverb is how to get back to the "old shit". lars needs lots of verb on the snare and toms to mask how lame he actually is. the fast shit starting at 5:15ish is dumb. it sounds like a non-8bit nintendo theme song.
and kirk hammet sounds like dog balls when he solos without a wah.
oh metallica... i have so much hope every time new music comes out. you keep kicking me in the dick though.

Yes, I listened to the whole song. I'm not saying it's amazing but it's not that bad. It's not something I need to turn off right away. I've heard much worse.

all I have to say is with lyrics like "love is a four letter word" are you fuking kidding me thats like some kinda Rick Astley, richard Marx, Michael Bolton crap.

The game has been up for years. People keep deluding themselves and fall for the "bringing back the old shit" trap, without fail. It's like a mental condition, or a bizarre (and quite retarded) phenomenon. So many great metal bands out there cant even sell a fraction of the albums Metallica does, all while Metallica continues to produce the shittiest material. Something is wrong with that.

The snare sounded pretty weak on this recording too

godammit, I'm not even gonna click on that. I know it'll be a sad waste of time.

I think by "bring back the old shit" they meant Rubin scraped all their colons and then they all built a shit snow man of Cliff, and then they drove over it with their tour bus.

LOL



LOLx2

Yeah, I keep telling everyone there's no hope, and stop getting even a little bit excited. Metallica is awesome at proving me right.

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

just listened
gay...very gay

also, that maiden cover
not good

crap

I'll beat Ryan to it, UMMMMYEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

isn't there a new single every week now? i decided the other day, that i'm starting a band with members of the atlas moth that just makes bad songs that sound like metallica. then we're gonna release it only on torrent sites as the new metallica. we'll be fuckin' huge.

Just you try it you fucking hippie scenster and I'll make the Napster lawsuit look like a case of the sniffles.

I'm some kind of monster, fucker!!!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
420 go!

Lars fucking Ulrich, go!

=)

bennyhillifier

I was expecting to hate this no matter what, but I was at least hoping that they'd do something with some sort of musical integrity to it. For a band that's been around for so long and written some awesome shit in the past (mainly And Justice For All, in my opinion), this is the Lord of the Rings fail (the most epic of fails). I think I was busting out similar tapping solos when I was 15 years old. What the fuck. Even though I haven't enjoyed Metallica in years, I could never deny that Kirk Hammett was a great lead player, but now it's pretty easy to say that he's lost it.

I can hear direct references structurally to some of their older material (Fade To Black and One, to name just a couple), but with nothing new. It is obvious that they either can't write differently or purposely copied their own music. To make this song as long as it is should be considered capital punishment. Boo-urns.

does anyone actually cling to the hope that this band will ever put out anything good ever again? seriously.

NO, NOT EVER AND NEVER!!!!! Just like things will never be the same, maybe if they lose all of their money and then have to start from scratch again! That way they are in it for the music, fans and scene and not world tours or hot topic sales!!

I think it's ok, it doesn't suck. Production sucks ass though!

It's like fade to black meets the newer sound.

i almost shit myself when i saw this post. hilarious.

Ok, so what happened? The song started out ok, and then this horrible change came in and then the song was ruined. Something they did quite a bit in on the last one. I don't have any delusions of great Metallica again, so I suppose this is way better than the last 3 records. At least they are doing solos and rocking a bit harder.

don't besmirch the good name of rick astley like that

not me. i haven't given a shit about metallica in years. i haven't listened to the song and i don't care to. they could put out the next bohemian rhapsody and i wouldn't give a shit. first four albums and parts of the black album are enjoyable. a couple songs on load and reload are enjoyable if you pretend it's a different band.

Best new stuff they've done post-black album...............which really ain't saying much at all. Solos coming back are good. It has the feel of 80s Metallica but it's just not good. They've lost it. It really is never coming back.




Meh

metallica will never put a good CD out again. hiring producers to help with the writing process is the first problem, letting kirk record rhythm tracks is the second and the fact that they are so maintsream i the last. they will never put out another master of puppets because the majority of fans like the new shit better. they dont give a fuck about their roots they just want to sell a million records and tour the world.

Cliff is shaking his head right now.

no he's not

Cliff Burton is alive I tell you. ALIVE

they took it off their myspace page...

Metallica have been dead to me ever since The Black Album.

I heard this abortion on Sirius the other day -- I made it about 30 seconds in. If they want to continue to play music, change the name of the band to something else.

They should change it to Rockica or just plain old "Shitfestica"

FAILLICA.

WeSuckCockica

For a while, they were known as "Alternica"

I'm going to start a band called Slayerica. Probably get murdered thuogh.

Aug 25 2008 10:26 AM

"hey. baught my first guitar when i was 8..ten years later im still playing your songs.thanx for the insperation, you guyes rock, keep up the good work."

Aug 25 2008 10:25 AM

"hay you guys have to re make nothing else maters or atlest put it on ya page -best song, but pritty mutch all your songs r
lookin forward to ya new cd.
take it eazy."

couldn't have put it better myself...

still lulzing about this.

Ok, here goes.



Ow.

By 1 minute in we have:

Tinny "not exactly Fade to Black or One but we're trying" arpeggios (except too high), half-assed attempt at a harmonized solo (KIRK YOU ARE BANNED FROM THE FIRST THREE STRINGS) with that shitty fuzzbox sound, trashcan snare, and - wait for it - GENERIC METALLICA BALLAD TURNAROUND #6.

Listening...

(Is my speaker clipping, or does the snare sound like that for everybody else, too?)

Hetfield, you can't sing that well, but that doesn't excuse the "yeah-yeahahahasss" thing in this song. Just mix it low like you used to; you don't have to be the wolfman right now.

Ooh, the chorus. Yup, there's the song title. KIRK STOP IT, I KNOW THAT LEAD WORKED IN "THE UNFORGIVEN" BUT YOU HAVE TO MOVE ON.

Alright, back to shitty lead #1. Then a verse. Chorus. Yup. Now we're doing something different. Annnnnd...

Oh, good, Southern rock again - you guys totally haven't run that little twist into the ground.

"Love is a 4-letter word?" I mean, I'm actively trying NOT to listen to lyrics, and that one jumped out and kicked me in the nuts.

Oh, it's fast now. Wait, what? Somehow "one.mp3" got cued up on Winamp and now it sounds like shit - WAIT A MINUTE.

Thin Lizzy lead, that wasn't so terrible I guess.

Meedlies and squeedlies, only I'm guessing they let Trujillo play those on a left-handed guitar while drunk, 'cause I distinctly remember both those other guys knowing their way around a guitar pretty well. Hmm...

*MEL BAY'S "HOW TO PLAY METAL LEADS THE EASY WAY" SECTION GOES HERE*

Ok, those three chords again, I remember those.

*chunk chunk chunk chunk chunk chunk hey remember how And Justice was a good album?*

Meedly meedly WE'RE DONE.



Well, that went pretty much how I thought it would. *shifts uncomfortably*

Did you know I was a POW? Back before "And Justice..."