I can pop in Master/Battery, and enjoy it the same as the first time I ever heard it. Not a lot of music can say that.

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Thank you for peeing on Lars' Wheaties. What a self-righteous ass he is.

In fairness, they've sucked since And Justice for ****ing All.

They haven't made any music worth a crap since at least the late 80's. I think Carlota is actually doing her listeners a favor by not playing their album.

Is there another band that has this much debate centered around them? Its not like we hear about how the Stones sucked since Goat heads Soup or U2 since josua tree or Ozzy since Diary of a MAdman.

its just continues to prove the point:they are the biggest rock band still producing new music.

Its really stupid for them to be mad at anyone. Shit is already all over the illegal download scene.

2 of the songs are up on their website. IMO, Cyanide sucks, and the long one - the day that never comes(?) has a good musical ending (the last 4 minutes) but the beginning is pretty poor.

I think most people just refuse to let it enter their brains that the Stones have made any new music since the early 70s.

Don't see Under Cover of the Night on any all-time classics lists.

And U2 is just the opposite, they don't get debated because each new album is another brilliant step forward in pop music.

I'm gonna download the torrent and erase it, like 500 times...

**** Lars.

Hmm. I was gonna' say it was because they've always sucked. Meh.

Metallica
Death Magnetic (Warner Bros.)
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Description:

One of the most influential bands in music, ranked eighth on the list of the biggest-selling groups in history, Metallica unveils its ninth studio album, Death Magnetic. The bandΓÇÖs first album in five years, Death Magnetic is also its first with renowned producer Rick Rubin (Linkin Park, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Slayer, System Of A Down), first with bassist Robert Trujillo, and first on Warner Bros. An aural assault, embracing the bandΓÇÖs past while moving into the future, Death Magnetic, says Kirk Hammett, is ΓÇ£the best album weΓÇÖve put out in, say, 15 years.ΓÇ¥




TRACKLIST:


1. That Was Just Your Life
2. The End Of The Line
3. Broken, Beat & Scarred
4. The Day That Never Comes
5. All Nightmare Long
6. Cyanide
7. The Unforgiven III
8. The Judas Kiss
9. Suicide & Redemption
10. My Apocalypse

The Unforgiven III? Wow.

unforgiven 3 is a dale earnhardt tribute

Thats a fair response, however I work in rock radio and have for over 17 years. This debate has raged since Ride (when i was just a rock music fan only), and no other band creates this much passion than Metallica. Everytime they put out something new, the debate begins. People talk about how they suck now (i have to hear it all--listners feel the need to tell me) and then the CD goes double platinum. Then the tours sell out in 2 hot seconds. Then we do music research to insure that we are playing what the listners want, and the first 2 pages, the highest rated songs, are Metallica songs.

To be fair, their managment are a bunch of tools. They really are. but not just with Metallica. Any band represented by their mgmt look like complete tools. Its just Metallica is the biggest band on their roster.