A Death Magnetic Saturday!

It was pretty rainy all day but overall it was a wonderful Saturday. I picked up the new Metallica CD.

For fans of Kill, Lightning, Master, and Justice I believe you would be a fan of Death Magnetic. If you were a fan of Black, Load, Reload....well then not so much.

It has a great sound to it, it is reminiscent of the old sound. You can't listen to The End of the Line and not think of Blackened. Any of these songs save for The Day That Never Comes and Unforgiven III would be at home on the Justice album.

These songs are longer, less radio friendly. They rock and they also will disappoint a lot of people. James sounds like he used to. Lars beats the drums senseless. Kirk is still a master of speed. The new guy pounds the bass as good as if not better than Jason or Cliff did.

Rick Rubin replaced Bob Rock and it appears to me that he has built a bridge for the older fans and the newer fans while attempting to resurrect Metallica from the St. Anger debacle.

Day and Unforgiven III are bones thrown to the fans of Black and the Loads. They will be the video friendly songs and singles no doubt.

In my humble opinion I believe that Metallica of old is back and I'm happy about that!