ITT: METALLICA
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Travelled all the way to Germany to see them at the Rock Am Ring festival back in 2009. One of the best times of my life. I probably will never forget the night they played (or the whole festival for that matter. Great lineup). I'm also learning how to play Orion on the Bass after figuring out My Friend of Misery.
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NinjaFridge
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benita said:
You are a bad person.
Thin Lizzy man, Thin Lizzy. They own that shit, the Metallica version sounds like ass.
Kermit The Dog
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Slappers Only said:
Wha...what is this...? I don't even...
Anyway, saw them live for the first time last year. They played Horseman, Orion and No Leaf Clover. It was awesome.
They're my favourite band and I know no other musical act will ever come close or have the same impact on me.
Fav songs: Orion, One. Best albums: Puppets, Justice
I thought Death Magnetic was their best album since Justice.
I would burn down an orphanage to go back and be in the audience for Seattle 89'.That is all.
Slappers Only
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As a huge fan of Thin Lizzy, still gotta say, I like Metallica's cover better than Thin Lizzy's.NinjaFridge said:
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NinjaFridge said:
The Lizzy version isn't bad, but I'd have to agree that the Metallica version is the superior one, simply because the original Lizzy version sounds so.. I don't know, it's like there's no punch to the song whatsoever compared to the heavier Metallica version.
Mazer Rackham
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l listened to Creeping Death when i was 9, by the time the song ended, my balls had dropped and I had a mustache.
Love this band, top 3 for sure
Love this band, top 3 for sure
Easily my most listened band of all time. The band that introduced me to heavier music, and broadened my taste in musical styles and genres in general. I feel like I owe a massive debt to them now as music has become a massive part of my life.
Lars gets a lot of hate for the whole Napster thing , but without him the albums would not be close to sounding as good as they do, hat tip to that man.
Seen them live twice, Wembley Stadium 2007 and Nottingham 2009. Near the front of the pit at Wembley with One blasting through your body = feelsgoodman.jpg
Favourite song would have to be Fade to Black, favourite album...Master of Puppets.
Lars gets a lot of hate for the whole Napster thing , but without him the albums would not be close to sounding as good as they do, hat tip to that man.
Seen them live twice, Wembley Stadium 2007 and Nottingham 2009. Near the front of the pit at Wembley with One blasting through your body = feelsgoodman.jpg
Favourite song would have to be Fade to Black, favourite album...Master of Puppets.
What is this I don't evenCombichristoffersen said:
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Stubo said:What is this I don't even
Metallica doing their thing is good, but the symphonic stuff far too often tends to sound completely detached from what the guys in Metallica are playing, making the album a rather boring experience.
Combichristoffersen said:
I've always enjoyed the album, you could argue that the symphony fills in any gaps between the existing instrumentals and gives each song an overall more 'epic' feeling to it. It would've been too ordinary for them to be merely replicating the rhythms and pitches of the existing tracks, so it adds its own unique layer to the sound scape.
I respect that this isn't everyone's thing, but personally I think it's one of the best live albums, if not the best. I'm jealous of anyone who attended that evening.
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Yousefb said:
Oh, son...
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Stubo said:
Honestly, I would've preferred if the orchestra followed the rhytm and melody of the original songs. As it is, it tends to sound like Metallica is playing one song, while the orchestra is playing another song, making it a bit of a jumbled mess. It's not a bad album, but I would much rather have had an audio CD version of the Cunning Stunts video.
Slappers Only
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A few songs lend themselves really well to orchestral accompaniment (Thing That Should Not Be, Her of the Day, Nothing Else Matters, to name a few), but yes, quite a bit of it comes across detached. Especially the faster heavy stuff. It's just jarring to hear some frumpy, elephantine orchestral passage alongside tightly woven, pounding 16th note riffs. It shift the emphasis away from aggression and speed.Combichristoffersen said:
Interfectum
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I'm a huge Metallica fan, though I'm not sure what happened to them with St. Anger and, to a lesser extent, Death Magnetic.
They both have this awful, noisy sound to them and the lyrics are very, very cheesy. They seem like a completely different band than even the Load/ReLoad era.
They both have this awful, noisy sound to them and the lyrics are very, very cheesy. They seem like a completely different band than even the Load/ReLoad era.
dude its pretty easy. Just listen to Lars play Harvester of Sorrow on live shit binge and purge in the 89 tour disc. and then listen to him play it at any point after the black album, just lazy shit drumming.J. M. Romeo said:
Don't understand all the hate for AJFA, its fucking awesome.
I don't know how some of you can say metallica wasn't that influential. You can hear them in just about any hard rock/metal produced today.
Yes i love slayer and megadeth and but metallica was easily a step above in the 80s.
Ickman3400
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Interfectum said:
They made St. Anger right after all the emotional shit they went through that you can see in their documentary, so they were all a mess and it showed on the album.
Also, Lars thought it was a good idea to replace his drums with 2 large metal pipes that he kept slamming together on the album. Most annoying drum sound ever.
One of my fave bands ever, seen them nearly ten times in the last few years, awesome.
Heres a vid of my deflouring the first time I saw them in Ireland:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=strC-vaJjFI&feature=channel_video_title
Heres a vid of my deflouring the first time I saw them in Ireland:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=strC-vaJjFI&feature=channel_video_title
TheGreatMightyPoo
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Slappers Only said:
You're out of your mind.
Thin Lizzy >>>>>>
TheGreatMightyPoo
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Nykad said:
Yeah, I thought the album was liked until this thread.
hahahahaha
It's one of the best albums I have ever heard, top 5 easily.
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Combichristoffersen
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Vincent Alexander said:
I love the two Load albums. Easily my two favourites behind Master and Lightning.
Slappers Only
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Fact: ...And Justice for All sounds better in a truck.Nykad said:
Giant Robot
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captive said:
no not really. Just what is that Metallica sound then?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RY7mvOJqrYbenita said:
Thread got me listening to KeA... such a fucking sick song.
Shame Kirk's riffs are so shitty compared to Mustaine.
Shame Kirk's riffs are so shitty compared to Mustaine.
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Vincent Alexander said:
I loved it too. The black album was the first one that bored me and made me think they'd run out of juice, and I remember thinking "How awesome would it be if they shaved their heads and the next album sounded like ACDC or something?" That's not quite what happened with Load, but it was close enough for me. I definitely like Load and Reload more than the black album. Hell, I like St. Anger more. But nothing will ever top Puppets for me. Absolutely flawless.
TUROK
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Screw the dissenting opinions, I like St. Anger, especially the EP edit of Some Kind of Monster.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxITcrZ0798
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxITcrZ0798
Kirk's everything sucks compared to Mustaine, even solos I'd say. I've never heard him play anything as memorable as the Wake Up Dead solos anyway.corkscrewblow said:
That's exactly what happened with me, it was fatiguing but I could bare it, but now I just can't listen to the original Death Magnetic at all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o2BavxXYJ4
This should have been on Garage Inc. instead of that awful Nick Cave cover.
This should have been on Garage Inc. instead of that awful Nick Cave cover.
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NGAMER9 said:
I think thats a bit of a stretch. Technically and theory-wise Kirk Hammet is leagues ahead of Mustaine in the solo/lead dept. Although i LOVED Mustaine's early solo stuff on Peace Sells and So Far...So Good...So What!?, it just doesn't compare to Hammet's early soloing effort. Hammet is a fucking snoozefest though playing the same fucking scale over and over. Hammet is just in the background there to do solos, nothing more. Much like Alex Skolnick (Testament) and James Murphy (countless bands)
as far as riff writing material, Mustaine is king beyond anything Hammet has ever attempted. There's no denying that at all.
Slappers Only
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Wah wah is to live guitarists as post processing effects are to video games. Not that either can't be beautiful, but they're often used as a cheap way to composite a presentation and glaze over all of its imperfections.Nisa65 said:
teruterubozu
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Giant Robot said:
I grew up w/Metallica from the Kill 'Em All days (I'm an old fart) but I never cared for Kirk's solos. And no, he's not nearly technically superior to Mustaine, not even close. Kirk does basic rock 'n' roll solos at a frenzied pace, but he can't really shred. Arguably, Kirk may have some tastier, bluesier bits but I wouldn't say he has an amazing command of modal scales. But that's fine for Metallica. Anything more technically superior would distract from Metallica's brilliant riffage. Kirk was Joe Satriani's student, but I don't think he learned much from him.
captive said:
ya metallica really pioneered that bay area sound lol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuVnmXkTd_w - Kill on Command (STAND STILL AND MAKE MY JOB EASIER)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClBkyLehIBU - Lesson in Violence \m/ (Exodus)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTdGnKB8j7U - Bonded by Blood (Exodus)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59-noFUUT2w - Eternal Nightmare (Vio-Lence)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T62Br1gWpbY - Merciless Death (Dark Angel)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEWLbgqCkUk (CITY IS GUILTY CRIME IS LIFE....)
we can include some testament and death angel in here too but i dont feel like linking anymore.
teruterubozu
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Well, you can hear Anvil in just about any 80s thrash too.
edit: Oh yeah, and Exciter - basically the first thrash band (from Canada too). Violence & Force was a highly influential album.
edit: Oh yeah, and Exciter - basically the first thrash band (from Canada too). Violence & Force was a highly influential album.
where did i say they pioneered anything? I said influential. There's a difference. You do know what the term influential means right? I like how you bring up Testament, as if they even hold a candle to Metallica's 80's material.yacobod said:
A better question is why are you shitting up an appreciation thread with your bullshit? You don't think metallica is influential, fine, but you're certainly in the minority.
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I hope you're not going to junk up the official Testament thread with that kind of talk.captive said:
teruterubozu
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captive said:
I can feel your St. anger.
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