Metallica Is Number One in America
Metallica's American fans have spoken. Death Magnetic debuted at number on on the Bill Board Charts having sold over 490,000 albums in three days of release. This is the fifth number one debut that Metallica has had on the Bill Board charts - a feat matched by no one! Not even Paul McCartney and the Beatles....
Metallica BBC Radio 1 Concert Set List
Metallica BBC Radio 1 Concert Set List
As part of promo for their new Death Magnetic album Metallica did a gig for the BBC Radio 1 station. If you want you can listen to the show BBC Radio 1 website until Monday 22nd of September. Metallica played five songs off Death Magnetic. The show was played at the BBC Radio Theatre.
Metallica' s BBC Radio 1 set list:
That Was Just Your Life
The End Of The Line
Until It Sleeps
Broken, Beat And Scarred
Cyanide
Frantic
For Whom The Bell Tolls
The Day That Never Comes
Master Of Puppets
Blackened
The following night Metallica did a show at the O2 Arena.
The Sauce
Metallica 02 World Berlin Concert Set List, Berlin
Metallica 02 World Berlin Concert Set List, Berlin
Metallica kicked off the O2 World Berlin Festival at a sold out 17,000-capacity arena. Metallica performed several new songs from "Death Magnetic".
The set list:
That Was Just Your Life / The End Of The Line / The Thing That Should Not Be / Of Wolf Of Man / One / Broken, Beat, and Scarred / Cyanide / Frantic / Until It Sleeps / Wherever I May Roam / For Whom The Bells Tolls / The Day That Never Comes / Master Of Puppets / Blackened / Blitzkrieg / Jump In The Fire / Seek and Destroy
The set list:
That Was Just Your Life / The End Of The Line / The Thing That Should Not Be / Of Wolf Of Man / One / Broken, Beat, and Scarred / Cyanide / Frantic / Until It Sleeps / Wherever I May Roam / For Whom The Bells Tolls / The Day That Never Comes / Master Of Puppets / Blackened / Blitzkrieg / Jump In The Fire / Seek and Destroy
The Spaghetti Incident? was the sauce for the set.
Death Magnetic Album Review Chris Schulz
Death Magnetic CD Review by Chris Schulz
Oh, how the mighty have fallen. All it took was one brilliant doco - 2004's Some Kind of Monster - for the world to see just how far Metallica had come from their days as an unstoppable metal juggernaut.
As Monster showed, the band had become a bloated mess weighed down by their collective history, existing in a black hole of infighting, petty egos, private jets and - for singer James Hetfield - a stint in rehabilitation for alcoholism.
It culminated with 2003's rubbish record St Anger, a timid album created under a psychiatrist's watchful eye which is almost universally unloved by the band's millions of fans. And rightfully so.
Five years on, Death Magnetic - their ninth studio album - is Metallica's last chance to reclaim their metal crown.
The good news is that it's an album of firsts - the first they've recorded with producer Rick Rubin, the first to feature bassist Robert Trujillo, and the first with a new record label.
They should be re-energised and Death Magnetic starts with intent, as the raw riffs of That Was Just Your Life blister the speakers in a way that St Anger failed to do - even if Hetfield, now 45, sounds like he's struggling to keep up with Lars Ulrich's frenetic drumming and Kirk Hammet's blistering riffs.
They keep the pace up with Broken, Beat & Scarred, All Nightmare Long and The Judas Kiss, tracks that fly by in a flurry of ridiculously fast riffs and guitar solos reminiscent of their classic 80s trilogy: 1984's Ride the Lightning, 1986's Master of Puppets and 1988's ... And Justice For All.
But that's the problem, and this is where the good news ends. Metallica sound so desperate to recapture past glories they've started sounding like a pastiche of themselves.
Just listen to The End of the Line. Do those riffs sound familiar? They should to any '80s Metallica fan.
Then there's The Unforgiven III, the culmination of a trilogy that began on the Black Album. Anyone who wants to hear Hetfield sing properly should play it immediately. Everyone else, hit the delete button.
It doesn't help that Hetfield's lyrics are all over the place, an incohesive mess supposedly based around the theme of death. They are at best forgettable, at worst cringe-worthy.
"Love is a four-letter word," he sings on first single The Day That Never Comes. Er, yes it is, James. What's your point?
And Broken, Beat & Scarred's hook of, "What don't kill ya make ya more strong" would have linguists throwing their pens in disgust. [Here's the Broken, Beat and Scarred lyrics]
Ironically, Death Magnetic's saving grace is Suicide & Redemption, a nine minute-plus instrumental in which Metallica sound like they're trying to cram an entire career's worth of riffs into one song.
It's urgent, vibrant, and Hetfield doesn't get the chance to ruin it with his poor rhyme schemes. Most importantly, it kicks serious ass.
Like Death Magnetic, it's a small reminder of what Metallica once did better than anyone.
You kept your copy of the Black Album, right?
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Death Magenetic was reviewed by Chris Schulz on the Stuff Website
Oh, how the mighty have fallen. All it took was one brilliant doco - 2004's Some Kind of Monster - for the world to see just how far Metallica had come from their days as an unstoppable metal juggernaut.
As Monster showed, the band had become a bloated mess weighed down by their collective history, existing in a black hole of infighting, petty egos, private jets and - for singer James Hetfield - a stint in rehabilitation for alcoholism.
It culminated with 2003's rubbish record St Anger, a timid album created under a psychiatrist's watchful eye which is almost universally unloved by the band's millions of fans. And rightfully so.
Five years on, Death Magnetic - their ninth studio album - is Metallica's last chance to reclaim their metal crown.
The good news is that it's an album of firsts - the first they've recorded with producer Rick Rubin, the first to feature bassist Robert Trujillo, and the first with a new record label.
They should be re-energised and Death Magnetic starts with intent, as the raw riffs of That Was Just Your Life blister the speakers in a way that St Anger failed to do - even if Hetfield, now 45, sounds like he's struggling to keep up with Lars Ulrich's frenetic drumming and Kirk Hammet's blistering riffs.
They keep the pace up with Broken, Beat & Scarred, All Nightmare Long and The Judas Kiss, tracks that fly by in a flurry of ridiculously fast riffs and guitar solos reminiscent of their classic 80s trilogy: 1984's Ride the Lightning, 1986's Master of Puppets and 1988's ... And Justice For All.
But that's the problem, and this is where the good news ends. Metallica sound so desperate to recapture past glories they've started sounding like a pastiche of themselves.
Just listen to The End of the Line. Do those riffs sound familiar? They should to any '80s Metallica fan.
Then there's The Unforgiven III, the culmination of a trilogy that began on the Black Album. Anyone who wants to hear Hetfield sing properly should play it immediately. Everyone else, hit the delete button.
It doesn't help that Hetfield's lyrics are all over the place, an incohesive mess supposedly based around the theme of death. They are at best forgettable, at worst cringe-worthy.
"Love is a four-letter word," he sings on first single The Day That Never Comes. Er, yes it is, James. What's your point?
And Broken, Beat & Scarred's hook of, "What don't kill ya make ya more strong" would have linguists throwing their pens in disgust. [Here's the Broken, Beat and Scarred lyrics]
Ironically, Death Magnetic's saving grace is Suicide & Redemption, a nine minute-plus instrumental in which Metallica sound like they're trying to cram an entire career's worth of riffs into one song.
It's urgent, vibrant, and Hetfield doesn't get the chance to ruin it with his poor rhyme schemes. Most importantly, it kicks serious ass.
Like Death Magnetic, it's a small reminder of what Metallica once did better than anyone.
You kept your copy of the Black Album, right?
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Death Magenetic was reviewed by Chris Schulz on the Stuff Website
Death Magnetic Reviews
Metallica's new studio album Death Magnetic is out tomorrow! Ride the Lightning!
Here's some review round ups:
"In the Eighties, thrash metal wasn't a scene, it was an arms race: riffs kept speeding up, drum kits got bigger. But with 1991's Black Album, Metallica opted for unilateral disarmament, slowing their tempos, shortening their songs and smelting their chugging guitars and piston-powered drums into armor-plated pop hooks. After that, the band rushed from one reinvention to another, starting with the Southern-rock infusion of 1996's Load and culminating in the muddled, bizarrely produced group-therapy session of 2003's St. Anger. No longer: Death Magnetic is the musical equivalent of Russia's invasion of Georgia — a sudden act of aggression from a sleeping giant."
"Hammett has not held back whatsoever this time around, with blisteringly fast solos. Many songs contain several solos, rather than just being restrained to one. Hetfield, on the other hand, may have lost the timber in his voice from the 80s, but his singing is still brilliant, though the lyrics aren't exactly the best. Lars Ulrich never seems to slow down either, but at times his drumming interferes with the solos.
Death Magnetic is arguably the best Metallica album since ...And Justice For All. From the top level singing from Hetfield, to the powerful solos from Hammett, this is the album all Metallica fans have been waiting for since the early 90s. Welcome back Metallica...we missed you."
"There are solos in abundance throughout, including some great Thin Lizzy-esque twin solos too, and given that all tracks aside from the closer, ‘My Apocalypse’, clock in between six and nine-and-a-half minutes long, there are plenty of time changes and musical explorations. ‘My Apocalypse’ – with lyrics that lend themselves to the album title – closes proceedings in a five-minute galloping flurry of metal, reminiscent of ‘Battery’ and ‘Damage Inc’. ‘Suicide & Redemption’ sees the quartet partake in a nine-minute instrumental; and while it may not be a ‘Call Of Ktulu’ or ‘Orion’, it’s an immense chug fest, displaying a real sense of epicness for a band who’ve rediscovererd the art and enjoyment of jamming again."
St Anger Album Lyrics Metallica
St Anger Album Lyrics Metallica
Here's the lyrics to Metallica's 'difficult' album. Making it turned out to being Some Kind of Monster
where the band nearly destroyed themselves. Metallica's egos finally smashed into one another longer than any time in their history so much so they called in a conusellor to help them get thorugh it all.
where the band nearly destroyed themselves. Metallica's egos finally smashed into one another longer than any time in their history so much so they called in a conusellor to help them get thorugh it all.
Drummer Lars Ulrich has said if it wasn't for St Anger
, then Death Magnetic could not have been made. So we have to take the good with the bad!
, then Death Magnetic could not have been made. So we have to take the good with the bad!
"St. Anger" is the eighth studio album by Metallica. It was released on June 5, 2003 after much build up. It was originally scheduled for release on June 10, 2003, but because of Lars Ulrich's fears of extended music piracy over filesharing networks, St. Anger was released five days earlier.
The album broke number one in 30 countries, including the U.S.
In 2004, the lead single from the album, "St. Anger", won a Grammy Award for "Best Metal Performance".
Playing live in recent times, Metallica have not played many songs from the album, preferring to go with songs from Death Magnetic
and their back catalogue.
St Anger Lyrics:
and their back catalogue. St Anger Lyrics:
1. Frantic
If I could have my wasted days back
Would I use them to get back on track?
Stop to warm at Karma's burning
Or look ahead, but keep on turning?
Do I have the strength
To know how I'll go?
Can I find it inside
To deal with what I shouldn't know?
Could I have my wasted days back
Would I use them to get back on track?
You live it or lie it!
My lifestyle determines my death style
Keep searching, Keep on searching
This search goes on, This search goes on
Frantic tick tick tick tick tick tick tock
Frantic tick tick tick tick tick tick tock
I've worn out always being afraid
An endless stream of fear that I've made
Treading water full of worry
This frantic tick tick talk of hurry
Do I have the strength
To know how I'll go?
Can I find inside
To deal with what I shouldn't know?
Worn out always being afraid
An endless stream of fear that I've made
You live it or lie it!
My lifestyle determines my death style
Keep searching, Keep on searching
This search goes on, This search goes on
Frantic tick tick tick tick tick tick tock
Frantic tick tick tick tick tick tick tock
My lifestyle (Birth Is Pain)
Determines my death style (Life Is Pain)
A rising tide (Death Is Pain)
That pushes to the other side (It's All The Same)
2. St Anger
Saint Anger 'round my neck
He never gets respect
Saint Anger 'round my neck
You flush it out, You flush it out
Saint Anger 'round my neck
You flush it out, You flush it out
He never gets respect
Fuck it all and no regrets
I hit the lights on these dark sets
To let myself go free
Fuck it all and fuckin' no regrets
I hit the lights on these dark sets
Medallion noose, I hang myself
Saint Anger 'round my neck
I feel my world shake
Like an earth quake
Hard to see clear
Is it me? Is it fear?
I'm madly in anger with you
And I want my anger to be healthy
And I want my anger just for me
And I need my anger not to control me
And I want my anger to be me
And I need to set my anger free
Set it free!
3. Some Kind Of Monster
These are the eyes that can't see me
These are the hands that drop your trust
These are the boot s that kick you around
This is the tongue that speaks on the inside
These are the ears that ring with hate
This is the face that I'll never change
This is the fist that grinds you down
This is the voice of silence no more
These are the legs in circles run
This is the beating you'll never know
These are the lips that taste no freedom
This is the feel that's not safe
This is the face you'll never change
This is the god that ain't so pure
This is the god that is not pure
This is the voice of silence no more
We the people
Are we the people?
Some kind of monster
The monster lives
This is the face that stones you cold
This is the moment that needs to breathe
These are the claws that scratch these wounds
This is the pain that never leaves
This is the tongue that whips you down
This is the burden of every man
These are the screams that pierce your skin
This is the voice of silence no more
This is the test of flesh and soul
This is the trap that smells so good
This is the flood that drains these eyes
These are the looks that chill to the bone
These are the fears that swing over head
These are the weights that hold you down
This is the end that will never end
This is the voice of silence no more
We the people
Are we the people?
Some kind of monster
The monster lives
This is the cloud that swallows trust
This is the black that uncolors us
This is the face that you hide from
This is the mask that comes undone
Ominous,
I'm in us
4. Dirty Window
I see my reflection in the window
It looks different, so different than what you see
Projecting Judgement on the world
This house is clean baby
This house is clean
Am I who I think I am?
Am I who I think I am?
Am I who I think I am?
Look out my window and see it's gone wrong
Court is in session and I slam my gavel down
I'm judge and I'm jury and I'm executioner too
Projector, Protector, Rejector, Infector, Projector
Infrector, Injector, Defector, Rejector
I see my reflection in the window
This window clean inside, dirty on the out
I'm looking different than me
This house is clean baby
This house is clean
Am I who I think I am?
Am I who I think I am?
Am I who I think I am?
Look out my window and see it's gone wrong
Court is in session and I slam my gavel down
I'm judge and I'm jury and I'm executioner too
Projector, Protector, Rejector, Infector, Projector
Infrector, Injector, Defector, Rejector
I drink from the cup of denial
I'm judging the world from my throne
I drink from the cup of denial
I'm judging the world from my throne
5. Invisible Kid Lyrics
Invisible kid
Never see what he did
Got stuck where he hid
Fallen through the grid
Invisible kid
Got a place of his own
Where he'll never be known
Inward he's grown
Invisible kid
Locked away in his brain
From the shame and the pain
World down the drain
Invisible kid
Suspicious of your touch
Don't want no crutch
But it's all too much
I hide inside
I hurt inside
I hide inside, bull I'll show you...
I'm OK, just go away
Into distance let me fade
I'm OK, just go away
I'm OK, but please don't stray too far
Open your heart
I'm beating right here
Open your mind
I'm beating right here
Open your heart
I'm beating right here
Open your mind
I'm beating right here
Ooh, what a good boy you are
Out of the way and you're kept to yourself
Ooh, can't you see that he's not here
He doesn't want the attention you give
Ooh, unplugging from it all
Invisible kid floats alone in his room
Ooh, what a quiet boy you are
He looks so calm floating 'round and around himself
6. My World
The motherfuckers got in my head
Trying to make me someone else instead
It's my world now
Mama, why's it rainin' in my room
Cheer up boy clouds will move on soon
Heavy fog got me lost inside
Gonna sit right back and enjoy this ride
It's my world now
You can't have it
It's my world, It's my world
It's my world
I'm out of my head, out of my head
Get 'em out of my head, out of my head
Get 'em out
Who's in charge of my head today
Dancin' devils in angels way
It's my time now
Look out motherfuckers here I come
Gonna make my head home
The sons of bitches tried to take my head
Tried to make me someone else instead
It's my world now
You can't have it
It's my world, It's my world
It's my world
I'm out of my head, out of my head
Get 'em out of my head, out of my head
Get 'em out
Not only do I not know the answer
I don't even know what the question is
God it feels like it only rains on me
Not only do I not know the answer
I don't even know what the question is
I'm out of my head, out of my head
Get 'em out of my head, out of my head
Get 'em out
Enough's enough
7. Shoot Me Again Lyrics
I won't go away
Right here I'll stay
Stand silent in flames
Stand tall 'till it fades
Shoot me again
I ain't dead yet
Shoot me again
All these shots I take
I spit back at you
All the shit you fake
Comes back to haunt you
All the shots
All the shots I take
What difference did I make?
All the shots I take
I spit back at you
I won't go away, with a bullet in my back
Right here I'll stay, with a bullet in my back
Shoot me take a shot
I'll stand on my own, with a bullet in my back
I'm stranded and sold, with a bullet in my back
I bite my tongue
Trying not to shoot back
No compromise
My heart won't pump the other way
Wake the sleeping giant
Wake the beast
Wake the sleeping dog
No, Let him sleep
8. Sweet Amber Lyrics
[x2]
Wash your back so you won't stab mine
Get in bed with your own kind
Live your life so you don't see mine
Drape your back so you won't shine
[x2]
Oh then she holds my hand
And I lie to get a smile
[x4]
Using what I want
To get what you want
Oh Sweet Amber
How sweet are you?
How sweet does it get?
How sweet are you?
How sweet does it get?
[x2]
Chase the rabbit, fetch the stick
She rolls me over 'til I'm sick
She deals in habits, deals in pain
I run away but I'm back again
Oh then she holds my hand
And I lie to get a smile
And she squeezes tighter
I still lie to get a smile
[x4]
Using what I want
To get what you want
Oh Sweet Amber
How sweet are you?
How sweet does it get?
How sweet are you?
How sweet does it get?
[x2]
She holds the pen that spells the end
She traces me and draws me in
Ooh Sweet Amber
Ooh Sweet Amber
How sweet are you?
How sweet does it get?
How sweet are you?
How sweet does it get?
(It's never as sweet as it seems)
9. Unnamed Feeling
Been here before
Been here before couldn't say I liked it
Do I start writing this down?
Just let me plug you into my world
Can't you help me be uncrazy?
Name this for me, heat the cold air
Take the chill off of my life
And if I could I'd turn my eyes
To look inside and see what's comin'
It comes alive, It comes alive, It comes alive
And I die a little more
It comes alive, It comes alive, It comes alive
Each moment here I die a little more
Then the unnamed feeling
It comes alive
The the unnamed feeling
Takes me away
I'm frantic in your soothing arms
I can not sleep in this down filled world
I've found safety in this loneliness
But I can not stand it anymore
Cross my heart hope not to die
Swallow evil, ride the sky
Lose myself in a crowded room
You fool, you fool, it will be here soon
It comes alive, It comes alive, It comes alive
And I die a little more
It comes alive, It comes alive, It comes A-live
Each moment And I die a little more
Then the unnamed feeling
It comes alive
The the unnamed feeling
Treats me this way
And I wait for this train
Toes over the line
And then the unnamed feeling
Takes me away
Get the fuck out of here
I just wanna get the fuck away from Me
I rage, I glaze, I hurt, I hate
I hate it all, why? Why? Why me?
I cannot sleep with a head like this
I wanna cry, I wanna scream
I rage, I glaze, I hurt, I hate I wanna hate it all away
10. Purify
Tear it down
Strip the layers off
My turpentine
Old paint, old looks
Cover up the past
White heat, white light
Super white bones
Bones of you and I
Pure if I... can't you help me?
Pure if I... won't you help me?
Purify you and I
Purify you and I
Pure if I... can't you help me?
Pure if I... won't you help me?
Purify you and I
Purify you and I
Truth and dare
Peeling back the skin
Acid wash
Ghost white
Ultra clean
Wanna be skeleton
Clear eyes
Diamond eyes
Strip the past of mine
My sweet turpentine
I can find the dirt on anything
I can find the dirt on anything
I ain't dancing with your skeletons
I ain't dancing with what might have been
St Anger Lyrics
2. St. Anger
11. All Within My HandsAll within my hands
Squeeze it in, crush it down
All within my hands
Hold it dear, hold it suffocate
All within my hands
Love to death, smack you 'round and 'round and
All within my hands
Beware
Love is control
I'll die if I let go
Hate me now
Kill all within my hands
Hate me now
Crush all within my hands
Squeeze all within my hands
Choke all within my hands
Hate me now
Trap all within my hands
Hurry up and hate me now
Kill all within my hands
All within my hands
Take your fear, pump me up
All within my hands
Let you run, then I pull your leash
All within my hands
Under thumb, under to myself
All within my hands
Beware
Hate me now
Kill all within my hands
Hate me now
Crush all within my hands
Squeeze all within my hands
Choke all within my hands
Hate me now
Trap all within my hands
Hurry up and hate me now
Kill all within my hands again
I'll die if I let go
Control is love, love is control
I'll die if I let go
Control is love, love is control
I will only let you breath
My air that you receive
Then we'll see if I let you love me
Kill Kill Kill Kill Kill
Check out the lyrics to Turn the Page or Pumping Blood's lyrics.
Lars and Metallica 'happy' about Death Magnetic album leak.
Lars and Metallica 'happy' about Death Magnetic album leak.
Death Magnetic - the long-awaited studio album by hard metal act Metallica - has leaked onto the internetz, but the Lars says it is "happy" about it.
The metal album, featuring first single The Day That Never Comes, was leaked when a French record store supposedly began selling Death Magnetic before the September 12 release date.
As a result of the leak, here's the Death Magnetic Lyrics
Metallica Drummer Lars Ulrich - who infamously took the evil online file-sharing site Napster to court in 2000 and beat them into a bloody pulp of computer bits and bytes - told the American radio station Live 105 Metallica was not worried about the early release.
"I mean, from here, we're golden. If this thing leaks all over the world today or tomorrow, happy days. Happy days. Trust me. It's 2008 and it's part of how it is these days, so it's fine. We're happy."
Lars further added:
"Ten days out and it hasn't quote-unquote fallen off the truck yet? Everybody's happy.
Death Magnetic - the long-awaited studio album by hard metal act Metallica - has leaked onto the internetz, but the Lars says it is "happy" about it.
The metal album, featuring first single The Day That Never Comes, was leaked when a French record store supposedly began selling Death Magnetic before the September 12 release date.
As a result of the leak, here's the Death Magnetic Lyrics
Metallica Drummer Lars Ulrich - who infamously took the evil online file-sharing site Napster to court in 2000 and beat them into a bloody pulp of computer bits and bytes - told the American radio station Live 105 Metallica was not worried about the early release.
"I mean, from here, we're golden. If this thing leaks all over the world today or tomorrow, happy days. Happy days. Trust me. It's 2008 and it's part of how it is these days, so it's fine. We're happy."
Lars further added:
"Ten days out and it hasn't quote-unquote fallen off the truck yet? Everybody's happy.
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