Metallica - Instramental Gods ?

Damien. said:
I wasn't a big fan of ST Anger either. If you hear them playing the St Anger songs live though its a different story, they actually sound amazing. I think it was Metallica's bid to modernize there image.

There releasing a new album May next year, heres to hoping they learnt there lesson and go back to the older style stuff. Either way i will be going to see them if they play in the UK again.
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From what I read and here, the album is back to standard tuning, and the songs are quite long, and it is creeping back to the MoP days, they have the right producer as well now, instead of Bob "bon jovi" Rock!!! :rolleyes:

And I heard it was being released in February!
 
Metallica are good. Good is all you're going to get. What they gave to metal in the 80's was amazing. But imo they fail to be the Gods that most people make them out to be. Some of their albums are very inconsistent even the earlier ones. There are some stand out tracks like Orion, Sanatarium, One, Justice for all, but the albums....i dunno just have something 'inconsistent' about them. I dont understand the following they get when they have done nothing to reclaim their old days since the mediocrity of the likes of Load, or done anything to reinvent themselves.

Compared to Iron Maiden, that were good, went crap then reinvented themselves, I wouldnt put Metallica in the God bracket.

All imo of course. I would even class Slayer as higher than Metallica tbh, and I dont like Slayer :o
 
Edinho said:
Compared to Iron Maiden,
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I don't know why this band is so big.
I first saw them supporting Judas Priest in the late 70's and they even copied their clothes.
I saw them another 3 times in those early days because they were always on NWOBHM tours.
I then saw them in the late 80's when they decided to play smaller venues (which they were way too big for).
This is one band that has wrote the same song over and over and over and over again and I can't see the appeal.
 
Damien. said:
Im not a big fan of IM either, i think there music is abit strange tbh.
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Yup neither am I, bought the greatest hits last year because I like a few tracks, never been a massive fan and wont ever buy a proper album.

They're just not heavy enough for me, Metallica are old school but at least they can go mental from time to time :cool:
 
RSH said:
Yup neither am I, bought the greatest hits last year because I like a few tracks, never been a massive fan and wont ever buy a proper album.

They're just not heavy enough for me, Metallica are old school but at least they can go mental from time to time :cool:
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Yer i think IM and Metallica come under two different categories when asked what type of band are they. Metallica are defo heavy metal, i wouldn't know how to describe the other, there sorta trying to be metal but aren't quite there.
 
Damien. said:
Yer i think IM and Metallica come under two different categories when asked what type of band are they. Metallica are defo heavy metal, i wouldn't know how to describe the other, there sorta trying to be metal but aren't quite there.
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They are New Wave Of British Heavy Metal and to be honest without IM and Diamond Head, Metallica would probably have never got started.
 
OMG, ive just been on the met forums. Some brilliant news has been posted. The video i posted above of there "new song" is basically been scrapped and they have reverted to there old style again, it looks like ST Anger was a one off !

Heres the video of the opening tune for the new album !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTfHxqwYUMk&feature=related

Studio quality version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zm7EeuWnc-8&feature=related


I dont think ive been this excited since i was 6 and i got a ghost busters station for xmas.
 
Orion and Ktulu are great. Ecstasy of Gold great as done on the S&M concert too, not convinced that this latest recording heralds a return to form though, doubt it. I love the guitar work on Orion, solos and structure is great, my friend prefers ktulu due to orion 'lacking a story'. To Live is to die is the other great instrumental...
 
Damien. said:
The video i posted above of there "new song" is basically been scrapped and they have reverted to there old style again.
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Now when have we heard that before. This is where Metallica end up looking like a band, that dont know where they are going, and have lost the plot. By all means experiment, but this should be kept in private, stuff like some kind of monster dont help the image either I came away thinking James Hetfield was a moron. They really do need to have someone give em a good hard kick up the back-side tbh.

Just get on with the music and none of this other BS they get mixed up with. Wonder if Cliff Burton would have stood for any of this?
 
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Damien. said:
The video i posted above of there "new song" is basically been scrapped and they have reverted to there old style again, it looks like ST Anger was a one off !

Studio quality version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zm7EeuWnc-8&feature=related
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Apologies Damien but I don't think you have a clue what their old style was.
This track was played by an orchestra on S&M and this new album could well be the first Metallica album I don't buy.
 
dmpoole said:
Apologies Damien but I don't think you have a clue what their old style was.
This track was played by an orchestra on S&M and this new album could well be the first Metallica album I don't buy.
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This track was indeed played on the S&M album, i have it. But it was not played in that style. That track was recorded in feb 2007 which i believe is a could have years after S&M, why would they have produced a video for it ?

As far as there old style goes, i have an idea i got all the albums lined up right here. And compared to " the new song " its old style enough for me to be happy there not ruining them selves.

S&M Version for ref; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JG62B_dHfDQ&feature=related

I do believe they have never physically played the song themselves, only using it as and intro song. I may be wrong.
 
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dmpoole said:
I don't know why this band is so big.
I first saw them supporting Judas Priest in the late 70's and they even copied their clothes.
I saw them another 3 times in those early days because they were always on NWOBHM tours.
I then saw them in the late 80's when they decided to play smaller venues (which they were way too big for).
This is one band that has wrote the same song over and over and over and over again and I can't see the appeal.
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Because they had a good first album and they were British, that's what made them. That along with being a good entry point into metal (rock to me) for everyone whilst not trodding on the toes of the established metal (rock) acts :p.

I'm in your way of thinking on this too.
 
Damien. said:
This track was indeed played on the S&M album, i have it. But it was not played in that style. That track was recorded in feb 2007 which i believe is a could have years after S&M, why would they have produced a video for it ?
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Esctasy of Gold is not Metallica's song, it only shows how young you guys are. It's Enio Morricone's theme from one of the most famous spaghetti westerns - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Look up Sergio Leone. Metallica has always used this composition, in smaller and larger parts, as an intro music for their live shows. In similar fashion as Marillion used Puccini's La Gazza Ladra, Iron Maiden used Carmina Burana or Churchil's "we'll never surrender" speech and Fields Of The Nephilim used Enio Morricone's The Harmonica Man. The "video" you see is a few minute snippet of Sergio Leone's movie Metallica used on their Justice For All and Black Album Tours. If you buy "Live **** - Binge & Purge" package, you'll see large venue concerts starting with that "video".
 
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Esctasy of Gold is not Metallica's song, it only shows how young you guys are. It's Enio Morricone's theme from one of the most famous spaghetti westerns - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Look up Sergio Leone. Metallica has always used this composition, in smaller and larger parts, as an intro music for their live shows. In similar fashion as Marillion used Puccini's La Gazza Ladra, Iron Maiden used Carmina Burana or Churchil's "we'll never surrender" speech and Fields Of The Nephilim used Enio Morricone's The Harmonica Man. The "video" you see is a few minute snippet of Sergio Leone's movie Metallica used on their Justice For All and Black Album Tours. If you buy "Live **** - Binge & Purge" package, you'll see large venue concerts starting with that "video".
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In that case ive been miss informed, thanks for clearing it up though.

Has anyone seen the some kind of monster film they released. Im 2 hours through with 30 mins left and its quite good.
 
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