New Metallica album for GH3 on Friday News

Album rocks, can't wait for this!!

think ill buy the album first seeing they havent done a decent album snice and justice and the track i heard of this album sounded like the bastard child of st.anger crossed with parts of black and load/reload

before buying the gh3 tracks

Very tempted to buy this

Listen to it for free, totally legitimately, from the Dutch version of mTV...

http://3voor12.vpro.nl/luisterpaal/

@muftak:

Trust me, this album is superb. It's like the last four/five albums don't exist :)

I had completely lost faith in Metallica but this album is excellent. I would say it's like a cross between Ride the Lightning and ...And Justice For All.

Edit: I say four/five because I actually quite enjoy the Black Album, despite it's commercialism. It's certainly no-where near as bad as Load or Reload and that piece of donkey turd St. Anger even if you're not fond of the Black Album :)

The album is absolutely mindblowing. So theres no way in hell i'll miss out on these...

Indeed, it is a brilliant album. ZOMG Metallica produce a good metal album shocker! A return to 6 minute + epic riff stuff should have your fingers dropping off in GH3 soon enough.

This news was out yesterday...

I'll definitely be getting this, Metallica are amazing.

Some old songs please.

Don't want it for GH3, want it for RB! *sulks*

Why not for Rock Band? :( I would so get this for Rock Band but no chance I will get it for GH3. Too bad!

"Why not for Rock Band? :( I would so get this for Rock Band but no chance I will get it for GH3. Too bad!"

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This.

Actually quite impressed with the album - thanks for the link Fab4.

The new Metallica album is the first one since Justice that I can listen to without vomiting in rage at the blatant commercialism. Bob Rock needs to crawl in a corner and die. With his cash-cow gone hopefully he will.

I still think it's a bit rubbish though. Sounds like someone picked up a bunch of riffs from the cutting room floor and went crazy with Protools. There's a definite lack of coherency in most of the tracks, jarring key changes just to accomodate disjointed riffs. The soloing is also depressingly shallow. No structure to most of them, just Kirk hitting as many notes as possible whilst kicking the wha pedal to death.

Although it's obvious any true grasp of song dynamic was lost many years ago, it does at least sound like they are trying rather than plodding out the same 4/4 dirge as they have done since Black, and Rubin does a reasonable job on the production.

All my personal opinion, of course, so no childish flaming please.

Couldn't agree more with farticus

Its no Ultra Beatdown, that's for sure.

Bah. I still think people give Black too much of a hard time, but hey, you're always going to get that with the hardcore fans. So much so, that as soon as I see a hardcore fan of a band refer to something as being 'commercial' then I instantly take that as shorthand to mean that the album's actually full of some bloody good music :-p

Never really been into Metallica - prefer Dream Theater / Rush and other prog rock stuff but really do like Death Magnetic. I think they are trying to be more prog metal and take a leaf out of Dream Theater's book - lots of time changes - The Day That Never Comes is sheer quality.... In fact I really like it and am deffo gonna get this on GH3 - rock on Friday!

Ultra Beatdown is complete shit! - guitar wankery taken to the extreme

What I'm looking forward to is the new Trivium album, who are the new Metallica

As for DM its ok, still not as good a Master of Puppets etc but 100 times better than St. Anger

@johnnybrn:

Fuck off are Trivium the new Metallica. Trivium have been completely commercial from the beginning. Excellent guitarists, don't get me wrong, but they're trying way too hard.

Also, they lean ever so slightly in the emo direction which really REALLY pisses me off.

/rant over.

redneon,

Lol. Didnt mean to get you so worked up ;)

I take your points about Trivium but...

Metallica are a spent force having peaked in late 80's/early 90's and have nothing really orginal to offer anymore.

Whereas Trivium are the young whipper-snappers who have a lot to prove, plus have the right sound and looks to take them to the top of the metal league (much to your displeasure!).

I was hoping for more from Avenged Sevenfold but it appears that they have blown it

Anyway music is a matter of taste isnt it

@johnnybrn:

Aye. You're right, it is. I just don't like the amount of commercial metal around, these days. Avenge Sevenfold are another band that do my tits in ;)

I tend to lean more towards black metal, death/melodic death metal bands these days. Amon Amarth, Hatesphere, Kalmah, The Haunted... that kind of thing.

Johnny, in my very humble opinion, Trivium are not fit to be even mentioned in the same sentence with Metallica ;)

Metallica were pioneers, whereas Trivium are just followers... They have to *create* something before they can start proving anything.

"Ultra Beatdown is complete shit! - guitar wankery taken to the extreme"

Some people enjoy guitar wankery...difference in personal tastes...its what makes the world go round.

Why do people always assume that commercial music automatically equals shit music?

It's quite possible to be both commercial and awesome at the same time. Just take Girls Aloud for proof.

@redneon

I remain to be convinced. I don't know why Metallica still bother to be honest. They had their day and did 3 great albums (Lightning, Puppets and Justice) that define 80's heavy metal. Now they're just old, tired, embarassing and 20 years behind the times.

Plenty of better metal bands around who have bothered to move with the times.

@Fab 4
I don't think you'll find that is what makes the world go round. Has something to do with the moon I think and perhaps virgins and lots of string.

the band has recorded two exclusive versions of single "Suicide & Redemption" for the game, each with extended guitar solos to panic along to

I can has confused.

That track wasn't a single, "The Day That Never Comes" was and even got a video. It's also a 10min+ instrumental that was already plastered with solos so extra extended ones seem a weird thing to add to it.

I guess only time will tell!

i remember the days when metallica were are the forefront of trying to destory digital distribution - now they are championing the cause (one major different they are gonna get paid) but this is just the start - shame you cant buy the game tracks with a version of the album that you could listen to without playing the game, but i guess thats the next step

Trivium are good but will never be great.

But that's beside the point.

Death Magnetic is brilliant - kind of a more rock and roll version of the thrash stuff. I'll be getting it for GH rather than buying the CD.

It's a bit pricey though.

Trivium are trying desperately to be the new Metallica, but I can't see it happening myself. From what songs I have heard off of their upcoming new album, it all sounds stupidly similar to their second one (Ascendency). The Crusade, whilst not bad in a 'sing along to whilst pissed' kind of way, was largely full of cheese, coupled with some staggeringly terrible lyrics and Matt's blatent ripping off of James Hetfield's singing style.
Annnyway, this new Metallica album is actually pretty rocking, and thankfully we can all now pretend St Anger never happened :) As I've got 6000 odd points just hanging around on my marketplace (It's best you don't ask), I'll be downloading this bastard on Friday.
Isn't 'Suicide and Redemption' the instrumental one? I can't see that being a single :/

Death Magnetic was indeed a pleasant surprise... I too had completely lost faith at the point of St Anger, but this one restores it quite a bit.

from metclub.com

Each download contains two different versions of "Suicide & Redemption." One version is James only solo, and the other is Kirk only solo. The download will be forward compatible with Guitar Hero World Tour when it comes out in October.

I think the article calling Suicide and Redemption a single was... incorrect. Well, apart from the fact it is a single song.

"I don't think you'll find that is what makes the world go round. Has something to do with the moon I think."

Well if you want to be pedantic about it, the Moon is the very last thing that will keep it spinning. The Earth is an object in motion, in a frictionless environment. The Moon's gravitational pull is the only thing that slows it down, but only by tiny, tiny amounts.

This is a great way to get this kind of music out in a diffrent way.

HMV have started selling the album today if anyone is interested.

Whether you like 'Tallica's latest offering or not (gets a big thumbs up from me), it's fantastic to play. I deliberately didn't listen to it so my first taste would be playing it, went through online with a mate last night. My interest in GH has been diminshing for a while but this has got me right back into it \o/