Sweet Lost Metallica B-side

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It’s actually a fun game to see how many dinosaur names you can get to fit over the same syllables as the Lux Eterna chorus.

Stegasauruuuuuuuuuuus.
 
Even better, they wrote Ride the Lightning.:rawk:
But they also wrote St Anger and everything after...?
 
RaceU4her said:
i feel bad picking on metallica, you get sooo mad :(
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people have a strange love/hate relationship with that band that fascinates me. I like to fuel the fact that metallica discussion brings out the worst in people. myself included. :ROFLMAO:
 
I am a huge Metallica fan. Early, hungry, thrashy Metallica.

Unfortunately, a band is only as good as their last follow up. I own everything that they released, up until they played with the orchestra on S+M. I have no problem with them playing with the orchestra, or releasing the album, but that was MY personal "turning point" for them going onto auto-pilot, with their careers.

They will continue to sell out arenas, just like Guns and Roses, but most of the people in attendance just want to hear their songs from 30-40 years ago. When was the last time that you heard a fan leaving a Metallica show, complaining that they didn't play, "Sweet Amber"... :ROFLMAO:
 
JimAnsell said:
people have a strange love/hate relationship with that band that fascinates me. I like to fuel the fact that metallica discussion brings out the worst in people. myself included. :ROFLMAO:
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start a KISS thread and see what happens here.

...better yet, start a Polyphia / Tim Henson thread. :D
 
JimAnsell said:
people have a strange love/hate relationship with that band that fascinates me. I like to fuel the fact that metallica discussion brings out the worst in people. myself included. :ROFLMAO:
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I mean, they were so good when they started, biggest metal band of all time, etc. Some people hopped off the bandwagon when the Black Album came out, but overall the streak lasted over a decade for most people. They lost more fans when the Load era came around, but for me it ended about 15 years after they started, all the way through S&M, or even a full 20 years if you count everything before St Anger. That’s basically two solid decades of unstoppable, world changing albums from a band at the top of their game, peak of the genre. They were more of a force of nature than a band through that period.

Then St Anger came out, along with the accompanying documentary that revealed a band that had become nothing but a bunch of sniveling, bitchy diva rich kids, and that was the end of that. That album, and literally everything they’ve done since, has been practically unlistenable. Every riff, every recorded guitar tone, every arrangement, all the lyrics that any edgelord 13 year old could have written. Every bit of everything they've released since St Anger has been total garbage.

Metallica represents the most catastrophic, hard 90 degree downfall of basically any metal band in the genre’s history, and that disappointment can still be felt by people even now, 20 years after St Anger. And speaking of that album, next year, we will be farther from the release of St Anger than St Anger was from the release of Kill Em All. So, if St Anger was the real turning point for you like it was for most fans, then to you, next year Metallica will have been dogshit for an officially longer period than they were good. But they’re still out there playing, reminding us all of what they once were but are no longer.

It’s not exactly a mystery that people still get riled up about them. :)
 
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JimAnsell said:
people have a strange love/hate relationship with that band that fascinates me. I like to fuel the fact that metallica discussion brings out the worst in people. myself included. :ROFLMAO:
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Im fascinated by metallica fans as well, the love/hate relationship to me seems totally normal though for reasons others already pointed out, its the unwavering support like a sports team has no matter how bad they are i cant understand. i honestly picture in my head all of us here laughing beavis and butthead style watching a video of a fake james singing about a fucking deadly fast velociraptors, and then you are over there steaming as if we personally insulted you and youre gonna show us by busting in and reminding us what great albums they wrote and how many tickets they sell. it would make for a pretty funny tv skit
 
TheGreatGreen said:
I mean, they were so good when they started, biggest metal band of all time, etc. Some people hopped off the bandwagon when the Black Album came out, but overall the streak lasted over a solid decade for most people. They lost more fans when the Load era came around, but for me it ended about 15 years after they started, all the way through S&M, or even a full 20 years if you count everything before St Anger. That’s basically two solid decades of unstoppable, world changing albums from a band at the top of their game, peak of the genre. They were more of a force of nature than a band through that period.

Then St Anger came out, along with the accompanying documentary that revealed a band that had become nothing but a bunch of sniveling, bitchy diva rich kids, and that was the end of that. That album, and literally everything they’ve done since, has been practically unlistenable. Every riff, recorded guitar tone, arrangement, all the lyrics that any edgelord 13 year old could have written. Every bit of everything they've released since St Anger has been total garbage.

Metallica represents the most catastrophic, hard 90 degree downfall of basically any metal band in the genre’s history, and that disappointment can still be felt by people even now, 20 years after St Anger. And speaking of that album, next year, we will be farther from the release of St Anger than St Anger was from the release of Kill Em All. So, if St Anger was the real turning point for you like it was for most fans, then to you, next year Metallica will have been dogshit for an officially longer period than they were good. But they’re still out there playing, reminding us all of what they once were but are no longer.

It’s not exactly a mystery that people still get riled up about them. :)
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Well said!
 
I always felt there are several generations of Metallica fans. You have the early fans like myself who got into them in the mid 80s. Then you had the people that discovered them around Justice. Then you have the people that got into them on the Black Album. I know that is when I dropped off them as to me they got lame on that record. But there are millions more who think that is their best record. Bands evolve I guess, but we do not always evolve with them.

I suppose my statement is generic hahah
 
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