Death Magnetic Leaked..........

[bunghole]

Bunch of "we want Souza back"

to be fair, Rob Dukes sucks. His vocals live are okay, but he comes across like a dick.

And I don't want souza back either. He kinda lacked stage presence toward the end of his tenure. Also his voice didn't hold up live in the TOTD era from what i've seen/heard.

Of course, resurrecting Paul Baloff would be the best bet.

I wish they'd shop around for a new singer, and cut the song lengths by about a third

Tempo of the Damned was proof that even after their extended absence they could still write killer fucking tunes

now I gotta go microwave my left over monkey soup

 

[thegame]

Souza on Pleasures of the Flesh were the best vocals Exodus ever had IMO. A good mixture of aggressive barking and good clean singing.

Not to be disrespectful, but alot of people forget Baloff was terrible live. His timing, among other things was WAY off.

 

[bunghole]

Souza on Pleasures of the Flesh were the best vocals Exodus ever had IMO. A good mixture of aggressive barking and good clean singing.

Not to be disrespectful, but alot of people forget Baloff was terrible live. His timing, among other things was WAY off.

dude, on Another Lesson in Violence he was amazing

 

[Juggernaut]

Yeah Jugg, you're such a friend of Gary Holt's that this thread happened on HC:

http://acapella.harmony-central.com/for ... ?t=2009973

You probably grew up best friends with Gary, went fishing with him and white-washed fences and stuff together.

Never met the dude till he signed on with HBE, and we built his Juggernaut, never said I grew up with him, or was his stalker and knew everything he ever said, like you seem to with me.....hmm


And as far as the rest of it goes, big deal, "I" dont like the direction they went after 1988, so what? Bunghole doesn't care for current Exodus, so what? you dont like my critique of Metallica So what?

So?



What?


My opinions and yours.... different. wow.

 

[BOOGIE444]

Just listened to Testaments damanation and Exodus pleasures of the flesh. Damanation was pretty good but it sounded like songs that didnt make it to "the gathering". Overall it was good but gathering killed it, and they really didnt change their sound at all it kind of sounded like gathering part deuce.

Pleasures of the flesh suprised the hell out of me I really dug it, vocals and all. Usually I get turned off by most of their vocal work. After listing to this album I felt like I got shot back to 1985 and got my balls kicked in which of course is a good thing.

Then I listened to death magnetic again directly after listing to those two albums and thats when I realized how badass this album really is, I even liked cyanide this time around. Also the vocals sounded really good now and I couldnt really critique them anymore. I now like this album better than the black album, and I love the black album. Overall I kind of getting this vibe that death magnetic is kinda like a Puppets X Black album thing going on with of course some modern stuff added.

I am going to fan boi out now and say this album flat out kicks my ass and is easily the best metal record produced in many years in my very humble opinion.

Cliche time, Metallica is back

 

[JamesPeters]

Never met the dude till he signed on with HBE, and we built his Juggernaut, never said I grew up with him, or was his stalker and knew everything he ever said, like you seem to with me.....hmm


And as far as the rest of it goes, big deal, "I" dont like the direction they went after 1988, so what? Bunghole doesn't care for current Exodus, so what? you dont like my critique of Metallica So what?

So?



What?


My opinions and yours.... different. wow.

If you don't like my critique of your opinion, so what?

You're always bringing up Exodus as some kind of example that all bands should follow, and you've mentioned how you're "friends with Gary" a few times. I decided to pick on you for that. If you don't want me to do that anymore, then don't pontificate about what "true thrash" is and how Metallica should do what you say because you're such an authority on "thrash".

What's funny about this is that Metallica didn't refer to themselves as "thrash"...not that I ever noticed (and "back in the day" I went out of my way to read everything I could about them). They were actually quoted as saying they didn't like to be called "thrash", that they were playing "metal" and didn't want to be tied into what people expected of "thrash". So it's quite possible that they never intended to play as "thrashy" as they did for those couple albums people remember, and it was only a temporary thing for them.

 

[j666]

 

[Juggernaut]

 

[JamesPeters]

Excellent reply.

No hard feelings either. I was just having some fun with ya.

If this album were thrashy and it sounded like they meant it, I'd be happy about it, sure. It's not, but it sounds good to me for what it is. If they'd have done a thrashier sounding album and did it "halfassed" (didn't have their hearts in it), I sure wouldn't like it as much as I like this.

So for thrashier stuff I'll stick to Exodus. I'd like to think Testament would help fill that void, but I can't listen to them anymore for some reason. I guess I'll just have to wait for the Atrocity Exhibit: B...

 

[Juggernaut]

I just wasn't gonna argue about it with you.....


Exodus huh?



Love ya James.

 

[Kill teh Son]

In regards to the whole "thrashy" talk going on. Really the new Testament, not too great, or rather not too thrashy. New Overkill? Not too thrashy. All of the old thrash bands nowadays, just aren't too thrashy, and it's really sad. Destruction changed a bit but they still play thrash. Sodom... I don't know wtf happened there. Kreator also are still nice and thrashy.

Also, new Exodus... while I really enjoyed TOTD, the other albums, not too great really. SHKM had some good tracks, absolutely love Raze, but overall their albums as of late just aren't that thrashy.

It seems nowadays if we want thrash we need to look not to the old bands, but the new ones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRP6iMZ1Pic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpxTHPOHgtU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klweUM8wj4g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ_RF8zlcFs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fr6rf2c6nV8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stlwD5kw6_0

Also, whoever said Suicide Silence was good metal deserves a boot to the face.

 

[j666]

In regards to the whole "thrashy" talk going on. Really the new Testament, not too great, or rather not too thrashy. New Overkill? Not too thrashy. All of the old thrash bands nowadays, just aren't too thrashy, and it's really sad. Destruction changed a bit but they still play thrash. Sodom... I don't know wtf happened there. Kreator also are still nice and thrashy.

Also, new Exodus... while I really enjoyed TOTD, the other albums, not too great really. SHKM had some good tracks, absolutely love Raze, but overall their albums as of late just aren't that thrashy.

It seems nowadays if we want thrash we need to look not to the old bands, but the new ones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRP6iMZ1Pic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpxTHPOHgtU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klweUM8wj4g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ_RF8zlcFs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fr6rf2c6nV8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stlwD5kw6_0

Also, whoever said Suicide Silence was good metal deserves a boot to the face.

c'mon dude...deathamphetimine has one of the greatest riffs ever in it. i could give a rat's ass about the rest of the song...that riff alone is worth the price of admission.
skeletonwitch is the shit! you forgot about demiricous tho. i don't know what everyone considers thrash these days but that shit is good as fuk.

i love suicide silence to death. u gonna put the boot to my face too? i get the idea from your posts that if other people dig it, you don't. not saying that's how you are, since i really don't "know" you but it seems that way. maybe i'm just weird. i love the sludge/crust/stoner stuff, right there with the death/black/deathcore stuff and still have time to throw in some glam or classic rock or metalcore or hardcore...whatever ya dig dude...it's all good.

 

[duodecim]

So, does that cover art look like a dirty gaping vagina or is that all the booze talking???

That's exactly what I thought too, ... but then I considered that it could be a joke. Has to be... Right?!

 

[bbaug14]

Listened to the entire album last night a couple times. I dig it. It's not their best by any means, but it's definitely better than than the sh!t they've cherned out as of late.

A lot of people are compairing this album to Master of Puppets and I'm just not seeing it. The songs are long, but that's the only comparison I think holds up. This album is completely different. It's very modern for Metallica and I'm really digging it.

I need to listen to it more to formulate a more in depth opinion of it, but as of right now I think it rocks. Cool riffs, the solos (although kind of boring and pretty much cookie cutter KH) are back, and overall it just has the speed and feel you'd expect from Metallica. James' voice on some of the tracks could be better, but he's getting old now so I'll excuse that.

Overall, I'd say 7.5/10

 

[thegame]

What's funny about this is that Metallica didn't refer to themselves as "thrash"...not that I ever noticed (and "back in the day" I went out of my way to read everything I could about them). They were actually quoted as saying they didn't like to be called "thrash", that they were playing "metal" and didn't want to be tied into what people expected of "thrash". So it's quite possible that they never intended to play as "thrashy" as they did for those couple albums people remember, and it was only a temporary thing for them.

When RTL came out they were downplaying the thrash tag & calling themselves "power metal". Then power metal became something else entirely.

 

[headlessdeadguy]

In regards to the whole "thrashy" talk going on. Really the new Testament, not too great, or rather not too thrashy. New Overkill? Not too thrashy. All of the old thrash bands nowadays, just aren't too thrashy, and it's really sad. Destruction changed a bit but they still play thrash. Sodom... I don't know wtf happened there. Kreator also are still nice and thrashy.

Also, new Exodus... while I really enjoyed TOTD, the other albums, not too great really. SHKM had some good tracks, absolutely love Raze, but overall their albums as of late just aren't that thrashy.

It seems nowadays if we want thrash we need to look not to the old bands, but the new ones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRP6iMZ1Pic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpxTHPOHgtU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klweUM8wj4g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ_RF8zlcFs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fr6rf2c6nV8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stlwD5kw6_0

Also, whoever said Suicide Silence was good metal deserves a boot to the face.

That would be me. After reading the post on sunn O)) I really dont respect your opinion so boot away. Beeaatcchhhh.

 

[The_Kid]

I've listened to this album all over the place the past couple days. In the car, on the laptop, on my MP3 player with headphones.

Still something just doesnt sound right in the mix with the production. I'm not a sound guru, but its like someone put a compressor on the whole track without mixing it and letting the compressor kinda mix it, and then just turned the levels up.

As much as I didnt really care for Bob Rock being so involved in the Metallica writing processs and shit, I thought he did bring some good production to the table with the albums he was involved in. The guitars were thick, heavy, good tones, and mixed well. Bass, drums, vocals and such all had their spaces in the mix. Black album had lots of layered guitars and you can hear them all in the mix. This album has a couple layered parts, but even on tracks where its just kirk solo'ing its hard to hear him stand out like a solo should. I really hope its just the downloaded inconsistencies, but I afraid that the overall cd will have this too. I'm not a guy that can normally hear clipping that well, but the guitars and drums seem to be getting crammed down our throats.


I just think it would sound more 'metal' if it was mixed tighter.

Could some of this be from a bleeding issue of how they recorded it? I know black album was all separate room/chambers for each instrument, and when they got to load/reload they loosened up and had some bleeding on the recording especially the vocals and such???

 

[Kill teh Son]

In regards to the whole "thrashy" talk going on. Really the new Testament, not too great, or rather not too thrashy. New Overkill? Not too thrashy. All of the old thrash bands nowadays, just aren't too thrashy, and it's really sad. Destruction changed a bit but they still play thrash. Sodom... I don't know wtf happened there. Kreator also are still nice and thrashy.

Also, new Exodus... while I really enjoyed TOTD, the other albums, not too great really. SHKM had some good tracks, absolutely love Raze, but overall their albums as of late just aren't that thrashy.

It seems nowadays if we want thrash we need to look not to the old bands, but the new ones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRP6iMZ1Pic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpxTHPOHgtU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klweUM8wj4g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ_RF8zlcFs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fr6rf2c6nV8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stlwD5kw6_0

Also, whoever said Suicide Silence was good metal deserves a boot to the face.

That would be me. After reading the post on sunn O)) I really dont respect your opinion so boot away. Beeaatcchhhh.

Deathcore scene faggotry. You may as well go listen to Bring Me the Horizon, maybe Oli will suck your dick.

 

[Gainzilla]

I have to preface by saying that Im not a Metaliica fan by any means. Back in the day, I liked Ride The Lightning and I definitely liked MOP but overall, Ive always felt that they were hugely overrated but I begrudgingly respect them because theyve obviously influenced so many..

That said, my drummer gave me a copy of the new album last night at Rehearsal. I got a chance to listen to it on the way home and I couldnt believe how much I liked it!!! Theres an assload of catchy riffs IMO and I dug what I heard productionwise. Of course , this was after a loud practice so I have to give it a listen with fresh ears but for a guy that usually doesnt give Metallica the time of day, I found myself diggin much of what I heard.

It definitely sounds like they took a trip back to the time when they were putting out stuff that defined them and built their fanbase...

I was pleasantly surprised and am looking forward to listening again..

Kage

 

[headlessdeadguy]

In regards to the whole "thrashy" talk going on. Really the new Testament, not too great, or rather not too thrashy. New Overkill? Not too thrashy. All of the old thrash bands nowadays, just aren't too thrashy, and it's really sad. Destruction changed a bit but they still play thrash. Sodom... I don't know wtf happened there. Kreator also are still nice and thrashy.

Also, new Exodus... while I really enjoyed TOTD, the other albums, not too great really. SHKM had some good tracks, absolutely love Raze, but overall their albums as of late just aren't that thrashy.

It seems nowadays if we want thrash we need to look not to the old bands, but the new ones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRP6iMZ1Pic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpxTHPOHgtU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klweUM8wj4g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ_RF8zlcFs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fr6rf2c6nV8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stlwD5kw6_0

Also, whoever said Suicide Silence was good metal deserves a boot to the face.

That would be me. After reading the post on sunn O)) I really dont respect your opinion so boot away. Beeaatcchhhh.

Deathcore scene faggotry. You may as well go listen to Bring Me the Horizon, maybe Oli will suck your dick.

Go away.