that was a real fun trip down memory lane till i got to this:

If as they get older, thier music gets suckier, this is REALLY GONNA F*CKING BLOW!

*I* am not 30 and don’t plan to be any time soon........

I like the “heavy” stuff alot more than this “mellow” crap myself.

that’s just not funny, man.

Awww ‘come on!!  It ain’t so bad… Okay, Okay… Load and ReLoad blows.  Actually, I’m liking their newer album “Some Kind of Monster"… kinda reminds me “a little” of their glory days of Kill ‘Em All, Ride the Lightning, Master of Puppets, and (My Favorite of All) In Justice For All.  What do you think of their S & M album?  Also, I’m a big fan of their “Garage Days Songs”.

I had a friend/co-worker burn me all of the Metallica CD’s about a year ago. The sad thing is...the ones listen to all the ones up to the “black” album. I don’t know if I could even name one song off of Load, or re-load or any of the other “newer” albums.

ANd I typically listen to country Ha HA but Metallica was it for me. I was in LOVE with Hetfield. Not so much anymore.

Don’t you just love it Jim…

At 20, I was too young for Metallica. When they changed their sound was when I first began to develop my music tastes.

For me it was always Korn, and while they never really sold out, they don’t sound anything like they did back in the 90’s. Issues was the last album that I could listen to every song twice daily. Untouchables was sort of like Metallica (album) I guess… while I still liked it, there was a definate change in the attitude and sound. Frankly it seems like they’ve been trying to hard to be hard and edgy. The songs in there first four albums all had a sort of this cryptic, harmonic, dark, echo-ey sound… the new ones just sound like every other crappy metal band out there now.

I had liked Disturbed, until they wrote a song about US Soldiers all going to hell. Fuck, I still like System of a Down, even with the overtly leftist overtones in several songs… they sound good at least. But there’s some lines I won’t fucking cross. I put it right up there with that white-power girl band Lee highlighted a while back.

There is an alternative!

Jim: But what happened to Crackwhore?

I can listen to load.  I just don’t think of it as the same band.  On purely musical merits, Load still has something other random alternative music doens’t have.  It still has depth.  There’s still some great music on there… but for me Metallica was never so deeply ingrained, it was always a technical thing for me.  I learned how to play guitar and drums by learning all of their songs.  When I started playing guitar and got my skills somewhere in the vicinity of where they still are today was the period between the black album and load (starting in 1993 which gave me something like 3 years to learn every metallica riff in all 5 albums (excluding at least half the solos unfortunately). 

But I can see how Load would *really* piss some older fans off.

How about Apocalyptica?

Nothing like Metallica songs covered as instrumentals, using four cellos. :)

Part of the problem Metallica ran into is that music almost has to evolve. Otherwise, you turn into Phil Collins, and, well, that’s a bad thing.

Unfortunately, Metallica chose not to retain the high-speed edge they had in their early albums. Justice for All, Ride the Lightning, and the Black album all had some blistering music; Load was just… eh. I liked some of the stuff, but I haven’t purchased too many Metallica CDs recently (my last purchase, at the recommendation of a friend, was Blue Man Group, ‘Audio’).

--TR