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List Price: $18.98 | | Label: Warner Bros.
Salesrank: 608
Released: September 12, 2008 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Death Magnetic Track Listing:
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
Editorial Review:
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 band's
first album in five years, Death Magnetic is also its first with renowned producer Rick Rubin (Danzig, Slayer, System Of A Down,
Slipknot), first with bassist Robert Trujillo, and first on Warner Bros. Heavy and thrashy, unafraid to embrace the band's past yet move
into the future.
Death Magnetic Reviews:
ALL HAIL METALLICA 
2009-12-05 - GREAT ALBUM.
GREAT BAND.
GREAT SONGS.
NOT GREAT PRODUCTION.
GREAT PLAYING.
NOT GREAT SOUND.
METALLICA RULE FOOL!
AND YES I AGREE THAT THE COVER RESEMBLES A VAGINA.
Uninspired 
2009-12-02 - I'm a long-time Metallica fan. You can't beat the triumvirate of Ride the Lightning, Master of Puppets, and And Justice for All. And unlike some fans, I think the Black Album was an incredible piece of creative work which helped push the progressive metal genre. And Load and Reload, while having a lot of forgettable garbage (including most of the "popular" songs), also had a few gems. But Metallica is over the hill and going downhill. The music just isn't that tight anymore. It doesn't all sync up and sound cohesive. It's not a matter of getting back to their '80s sound, it's a matter of having a good ear for music again. And the vocals are increasingly strained. It's not just the new songs, but even doing their old stuff, James just doesn't have it anymore. He's too monotone in an annoying resonance. There's no longer the crispness and vocal range he had a few decades younger, even in purely thrash titles where you wouldn't think it would matter that much. Listen to a recent live performance of Enter Sandman (a selection they often do live) versus the recorded version or an old live version and the difference in vocals is stark. I really wish it weren't so, but people do get old and they do lose their edge. Metallica is now like Michael Jordan playing for the Wizards. It's time to hang up the guitars. You should have gone out while on top. Now it's just getting sad. Why not sponsor and support an up-and-coming group and pass the baton? I can't recommend wasting your money on their most recent albums.
Death Magnetic
2009-11-29 - Death Magnetic being Metallica's 2008 release and their 9th studio album is an album that sounds alot like their earlier recordings, i.e., ....And Justice for All. The tracks range between 5 to 10 minutes and is not the radio friendly tracks that one found on recordings such as One and Load. To me this is Metallica going back to basics and this includes well-written lyrics, heavier guitar riffs and a more macho rough sound then one had heard from the band in quite some time. The booklet contains all the lyrics but for some strange reason the artwork is covering up some of the lyrics. Allmusic, Blender and IGN all gave this release high marks in their reviews. The album topped several charts around world, e.g., France, Sweden and Croatia. 4/5.
4 out of 5
2009-11-06 - Metallica can do no wrong by me.
They are legends, masters, almost Gods.
Production on this sucks and that is the only reason I did not award 5 stars.
Heavy Metal as it SHOULD be 
2009-10-25 - Like many fans of the 'old' Metallica sound, the 90's and St. Anger well..just...hurt. And then the 'Some kind of Monster' video...ouch. And out comes Death Magnetic - happy days are here again! THRASH, albeit not quite the MOP or RTL-intense, we have a winner!
It is not a 'perfect' CD, and upon repeated listens, it holds up VERY well (unlike others that sound great at first, but fizzle by listen number 5). Bottom line is that this is a SOLID heavy metal CD, and it is great to hear the 'masters' do it up right...shame how time flies, and Metallica was considered in their 'prime' in the 80's when they were in their 20's and thrash was new, daring, cool...and they were IT. Here we are 20+ years since MOP, and what do we have? Metallica considered "old HM geeks trying to pawn off HM stuff on the masses?" Quite frankly, I think some fans would have preferred Metallica to take the AC/DC route of 'musical progression'...which is none, but heck, they would still sound like 'Sanitarium' today, right? Right. I am guilty, and some of you reading this might feel the same...however the other side of my brain wants Metallica (and other bands like them) to find a magical heavy new groove/sound/etc that is NOT a re-hash of their earlier stuff. I have felt this way about many metal bands that I have been fond of since the mid-70's that still exist today (IM, Judas Priest, Scorpions, etc) as well as the hair bands (Motley Crue, Poison, Great White, etc). I think rap-metal was an attempt (Korn, Staind, RATM, etc) to bring the metal sound 'forward', and I really do like a lot of it, but nothing quite does it like the ole IM/JP/Metallica riffs of days gone by (Where Eagles Dare, Breakin the Law, Creeping Death). After listening to the latest CD's from Metallica, Def Leppard, Iron Maiden and the like and hearing the 'sound' of classic heavy metal brought up to today's 'standards' and sound (as well as hipness on the lyrical end), I am one happy camper - glad to hear it isn't a 'so totally dead' thing.
So...the bottom line...this CD kicks a** and all Metallica fans should have this, as well as anyone who like the heavy metal sound...this is one first class flight the best of Heavy Metal. Crank it and ENJOY!
