Metallica's yet-to-be-titled ninth studio album is planned to be released by early 2008.
Metallica has written about 25 songs for its ninth studio effort and is now concentrating on trimming that list to one album's worth of material, which it will begin recording in January. Drummer Lars Ulrich told us that the band's summer European tour, on which Metallica played its classic 1986 album Master of Puppets in its entirety, paved the way for the sound of the new album.
So it is going to be as good as Master Of Puppets. I can't wait to get my hands on this album!
After Kill 'Em All, Metallica are just rolling down from the top of the hill, if you ask me.
| vrock wrote: |
So it is going to be as good as Master Of Puppets. I can't wait to get my hands on this album!
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Well, I don't know if i'd go that far. But I do hope it'll be a decent throwback to their earlier days. St Anger made a lot of people give up entirely on them.Kirk Hammett stated that its the best Metallica album in the past 15 years, so it might be good.
Rob said that 13 songs might be in the album.
Well i read that from past interviews
I hope this isn't the kind of 'new' Saint Anger was. Boy, that was a letdown.
I also want to add
Trujillo said in an interview that the 2 new songs that were played live last year, might not make it into the album.
They are too old and out-of-date I think.
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| After Kill 'Em All, Metallica are just rolling down from the top of the hill, if you ask me. |
+ 100000 
I can't stand their last albums, specially Sant Anger.Hi there,
I'm quit sure when I say that about this Napster thing that Metallica was doing for a couple of years ago, was the most stupid thing that Metallica ever had done, as it did mark Metallica as a pure commercial s**t like many others and not like the underground as they was at Kill 'em All and Ride the lightning days.l
So how ever Metallica are that brilliant musicans as they are, has Metallica lost my vote and support forever, and I don't care what they are doing in the future, as it doesn't matter.
Cheers!
i Love metallica, and Dope, and meny more, i listening to Bandit 106.3 thats my favourite radio station, cheers
Well - those songs they have played from it isn't very good.
But of cause i hope that the album will be a lot better
- Achene
St Anger is a freakin awesome album! More of a step up from their earlier albums than a step down! Seriously people, time to realize! Their early albums were ok, but St Anger is way better! The sound on that album is just incredible, such as the arrangments too! Light years better than their old mossy not original at all albums!
| LimpFish wrote: |
| St Anger is a freakin awesome album! More of a step up from their earlier albums than a step down! Seriously people, time to realize! Their early albums were ok, but St Anger is way better! The sound on that album is just incredible, such as the arrangments too! Light years better than their old mossy not original at all albums! |
I think some people might not have realized, but LimpFish was obviously being sarcastic here.
Just to avoid the upcoming flames... 
I saw them play 3 days ago in Werchter and they were pretty good actually.
They said 'We're coming back next year, with our new album, and our 6th show here (= next year) will be the best'
So it will be pretty good me thinks 
You know, to be perfectly honest, I believe Master of Puppets and ...And Justice For All were their best 2 albums. The biggest let-downs for me were "Load" and "ReLoad". As for St. Anger, I don't understand why the hatred. Sure, it doesn't have any leads/solos, but admittedly, it's better than Load.
And just out of curiosity, have many of you heard St.Anger more than a few times? I've found that the more I listen to some of the songs off that album, the more I like the raw sound of the drums.
As for the new album, I hope to hell it has some of those awesome leads as MOP did, although realistically I expect them now to be too old to be able to play as well/as fast as they did on ...And Justice For All.
For me , tha last album doesn´t exist.I gonna wait for the new album,hoping that the band realize how good the play and don´t do something like st anger never again...
Well, let's see.
As for me I like st.anger, so I want to listen to new album as quick as possible.
| Arseniy wrote: |
| As for me I like st.anger, so I want to listen to new album as quick as possible. |
Well, at least one person who likes St. Anger apart from me. Don't you miss having guitar solos/leads though?Chiming in as another St Anger fan. How can you hate The Unnamed Feeling? Most of the tracks are fairly solid, and its sound is a nice departure from standard metal. I can live with no solos if the groove and riffs are good. Sure it's no puppets or ride the lightening but then what is?
I saw on ultimate-guitar a while ago that Kirk said a 'middle eastern' sound was creeping into the music. .. something like a reflection of the times. Quietly optimistic here... but very quietly.
A middle eastern sound in Metal... hmm... I wonder what that means, I seriously do.
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| I can live with no solos if the groove and riffs are good. Sure it's no puppets or ride the lightening but then what is? |
I would, however, like some nice solos in the new album. But for me, I've always been a fan of the riffs on MOP and ...AJFA and those earlier albums. Of course, the amazing riffs more-or-less disappeared from The Black Album onwards. I hope that it will be good - not like that st. anger stuff..
But i honestly can't imagine it being as good as puppets and such.
James has lost his voice, and kirks guitar playing is deffinately not my style anymore - way too much wahwah.
- Achene
| Helios wrote: |
| After Kill 'Em All, Metallica are just rolling down from the top of the hill, if you ask me. |
Hell no man 
Master Of Puppets is one of the greatest in the history of music.
Btw, I have all albums except for live ones and Garage Inc.
Can't wait for this one.I think Metallica has been trundling downhill since the Enter Sandman days. The Black Album was great mind you, for what it was, but I think that was around the time they started getting... popular? Not sure that's the word I want... maybe more... mainstream? Something like that. There was a point where they stopped being an angry heavy metal band because that's what they were... and became an angry heavy metal band because that's what people expected them to be. they fought back against it a bit (remember the hair/make up) but it didn't sit well. in the end, they're pigeon holed into a spot of their own making and I get the feeling they've all "grown up"... but have no where to grow to.
I saw them at Live Earth on TV recently, and it really just wasn't the same as the old days at all.
Sad but true... indeed.
I totally love St Anger, as I just said, so I really look forward to the new album! I love the "dirty", "raw" sound of St Anger! They have a lot of good songs on their old albums too, but St Anger really makes them something else than a "has been"-band! Im excited for the next album!
What a long life band! Their first album was before Gun N' Roses' first one, but where is GNR now?
IMHO Saint Anger was a crap. I hope this album change that, to recover our Metallica of 90's
I personally liked St. Anger. It was different and more raw than any of their other albums: the sound of the drums and the vocal trackings specifically sounded raw. I kind of liked it. You can also tell that when James is singing, he means what he is saying. He was going through a very difficult time, and I feel to him at least, the making of this album was more therapeutic than anything.
I guess I don't know why people complain about this album because "there are no solos in it and it does not sound like any of their previous albums." My question is this: why would you want to buy an album from a band year after year that sounds consistently the same? It is similar to what TOOL has been experiencing lately. They released a new album and everyone is complaining that they "sold out", "lost their chemistry together", or the "album sucks" because their new album does not sound like their older album Lateralus. Why would I want it to sound like Lateralus? If I wanted to listen to Lateralus, I would listen to Lateralus. It just doesn't make any sense to me.
Anyway, I kind of got off subject, but I must say that I am excited to hear Metallica's new album. Should be interesting.
well everyone is entitled to thier opinions but im pretty confident that st. anger was a decent album just with crappy drums.
i mean.. was it as bad as load and reload? in my opinion no. load and reload were their worst albums. i mean, most of that was country music...
im not entirely sure that thier new music is going to even come close to master of puppets.
when bands get older they tend to loose thier creativity. i think this is what happened to metallica.
but some would say that bands just evolve and their fans stay the same.
im not sure if that made sense.
but do they still produce they are a old band inform me please some one.
Most bands that regress will most likely end up putting out a crappy album. Sorry.
Their biggest mistake was to stop what they had going on with load/reload. It wasn't their best albums, but they were definitely evolving. Many Metallica fans hated load/reload, and this was enough to compell them to "go back to their roots". They were scared about what their fans thought.
"Going back to their roots" ---- this spells nothing but a bad emulation of past work. Remember St. Anger? Wasn't that also another try at the sound of Master of Puppets? That album just DEAD SUCKED.
St Anger has crappy drums? Get outta here, I love the drums on St Anger! Ulrich is so freakin good! I could never play those drums now matter how much I tried!
I don't think it's the actual drumming that people are complaining about. Rather, the way they sound.
But I personally love the way they sound, and also liked the drumming. The cymbals sounded really good because of their raw sound, I thought.
I would, however, have liked for the snare on "The Unnamed Feeling" to be a little more prominent.
| LimpFish wrote: |
| St Anger has crappy drums? Get outta here, I love the drums on St Anger! Ulrich is so freakin good! I could never play those drums now matter how much I tried! |
Sorry, but Lars is probably the most predictable drummer there ever is. He's not creative, and he's definitely not technically skilled. | tingkagol wrote: |
| LimpFish wrote: | | St Anger has crappy drums? Get outta here, I love the drums on St Anger! Ulrich is so freakin good! I could never play those drums now matter how much I tried! |
Sorry, but Lars is probably the most predictable drummer there ever is. He's not creative, and he's definitely not technically skilled. |
That's fine for people who want to play Metallica songs with the drums
...guitar players are not so luckyIt's just that the drums on St. Anger have a totally different sound than anything before that, and the fans have trouble adapting to it. That, and the total absence of creativity, but that could just be me - in my opinion they should have just continued on the way they went with Load/Reload...
But then again, Kill 'em All has to be my second-least-favorite album from them so I may be alone here.
dude I also love the sounds of the drums! The rawness is what I love about the whole production of the album! It's just so raw and powerful! I hope the next album will go in the same direction as St Anger! Cant wait for it if it does! I miss Kirk's guitar solos, personally I think st. anger is something between nu-metal/trash.
the new album is OUT of thrash metal! 
I'd have to say OLD Metallica is great, new metallica 
still deciding, it's not as good as it used to be especially St.Anger, that was a real dissapointment, ever seen the Music vid for it? The prisoners look like they're bored out of their minds, as if they're saying "wtf is this? Please just put us back in our cells and get rid of this shit." Hi there,
Just to make this clear! Since the "Black Album" do I not trust Metallica any more, and regarding the upcoming album is it still the same.
I know that we can't officially discuss piracy here, but I did made that crime and I didn't regret as much I would have if I had bought this album.
I do now know the reason about Metallica's war against file sharing. The reason is just like so that they fear that their fans realize that Metallica is just a brand for what they was once upon the time.
If you would like to hear some Metallica sound, then go Megadeth as Dave Mustaine never betray his fans, and they don't betray him.
I've bought Megadeth latest, United Abominations, and I really don't regret.
Cheers!
I'll never understand why people are always saying, "man, bands are too alike and similar and they never change their music...gets boring." Then, those same people condemn all the bands that attempt to try something new, to experiment with their sound. Obviously, St. Anger wasn't the highest quality album, and Metallica has definitely done better. But it's not like it was the most terrible album ever made in the history of music. It simply had a different sound and a different methodology behind it. I'm not defending it, I would much rather they played like they used to, but there's absolutely nothing wrong with a highly successful band trying to change up their sound and have fun with the music. Most bands can't play the same music for 30 years without changing it at all and still be successful (only very few come to mind).
If it ain't like the previous album "St. Anger", I will definitely buy it! I hope it will be worth the money... The New Album is named Death Magnetic!
They are coming in my city in France soon! I hope you're all jealous! 
This is their last shot in all reality. People are fed up with them and if this album is bad it's simply proof that Metallica died with Cliff Burton. I mean, I still like them and there's no doubt they're great musicians, but they've lost something over the years (obviously they lost their thrash influence). But hopefully they can bring it back to the old days a bit on this new album and make something of it. I think all the hate from people for really no reason is a bit silly and just people jumping on a bandwagon saying they dislike something cause others say it.
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| People are fed up with them and if this album is bad it's simply proof that Metallica died with Cliff Burton. |
St. Anger still sold millions of copies, despite how bad people said it was.
The bottom line is that there is no "last shot" for Metallica. They may lose some fans by playing a certain style of music, but they will gain others. I've liked almost all of Metallica's albums. I like the Cliff Burton and "...And Justice For All" albums the best because they're just spectacular, in my opinion. At the same time, I loved a lot of songs off "ReLoad" and "Load" as well. And no matter what people say, I really liked "St. Anger" as well, more or less. It was a return to their old form of complex song structes instead of short songs. Yes, I do admit that I miss the guitar solos, but I hear they're back in the new Metallica album.
All in all, I can't wait to hear it, | tidruG wrote: |
| Quote: | | People are fed up with them and if this album is bad it's simply proof that Metallica died with Cliff Burton. |
St. Anger still sold millions of copies, despite how bad people said it was. |
Any band with Metallica's past is going to hit huge record sales regardless of what they put out. I thought St. Anger was fine (obviously Metallica has done and can do better). I would say a large amount of their record sales came in before a lot of reviews and public opinion spread on the state of the album, however. I never look at record sales to see the quality of the music/band/artist. Those numbers are irrelevant when people like Soulja Boy, 50 Cent, Backstreet Boys, etc. sale millions upon millions of albums.
| tidruG wrote: |
The bottom line is that there is no "last shot" for Metallica. They may lose some fans by playing a certain style of music, but they will gain others. I've liked almost all of Metallica's albums. I like the Cliff Burton and "...And Justice For All" albums the best because they're just spectacular, in my opinion. At the same time, I loved a lot of songs off "ReLoad" and "Load" as well. And no matter what people say, I really liked "St. Anger" as well, more or less. It was a return to their old form of complex song structes instead of short songs. Yes, I do admit that I miss the guitar solos, but I hear they're back in the new Metallica album.
All in all, I can't wait to hear it, |
Not necessarily a last shot, but there are a lot of people who have faith that they'll put out an amazing album...and I think that faith is dwindling to the point where if they don't have a pretty spectacular album soon they're going to get tons more criticism from way more people.
Also, I'd say they've lost a lot of fans, not just some. They haven't put out an amazing album in a while along with all the downloading/Napster issues they forced...a lot of people's opinions of them have gone down the hole. Many people are getting to the point that they're saying Metallica is overrated just because they had some incredible albums in their early years and haven't lived up to it in more recent years.
To be honest, I think much of their fate lies in Kirk's hands. He's going to have to lose the wah pedal and really show people that he can compose and play like he did back in the day. Without that killer guitar shredding and amazing riffs/rhythm playing, Metallica just isn't Metallica.
I'll buy anything they put out to be honest, these are just observations of my own that I've noticed browsing guitar and music forums. | Quote: |
| Any band with Metallica's past is going to hit huge record sales regardless of what they put out. I thought St. Anger was fine (obviously Metallica has done and can do better). I would say a large amount of their record sales came in before a lot of reviews and public opinion spread on the state of the album, however. I never look at record sales to see the quality of the music/band/artist. Those numbers are irrelevant when people like Soulja Boy, 50 Cent, Backstreet Boys, etc. sale millions upon millions of albums. |
I agree with you, but that wasn't necessarily my point. How many copies an album sells sometimes has no bearing on how good it is. Having said that, what I'm saying is that if it sold close to 2 million copies, then there must be at least 2 million people who liked it. As for when it sold, I don't know, but I don't think a majority of people would not have read or heard any review about it at all before buying it. In fact, Rolling Stone gave it 4/5.
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| Not necessarily a last shot, but there are a lot of people who have faith that they'll put out an amazing album...and I think that faith is dwindling to the point where if they don't have a pretty spectacular album soon they're going to get tons more criticism from way more people. |
Yeah, again I agree. And again, what I said before is the same. There may be a number of people who might not like what Metallica put out now, but for most fans they lose, they will probably gain new ones who like the new direction Metallica's going in (if at all they're going in a new direction at all).
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| I'll buy anything they put out to be honest, these are just observations of my own that I've noticed browsing guitar and music forums. |
I kinda understood that. Metallica-bashing is much in fashion nowadays. It's cooler to go Megadeth than Metallica. To be honest though, I think Mustaine should sew his lips together so that we no longer have to hear that horrible rasp he calls his voice.
Anyway, I'm looking forward to the new album a lot. I've heard that it's much faster than St. Anger, and guitar solos are back, and stuff... Well, it's due September, isn't it?I hope Lars is right by saying that Master of Puppets was the album that paved the way for this new album because the last 3 studio albums sucked!!! Load and Re-Load terrible....St. Anger....better than the latter but still pretty bad...just a crappy attempt to go back to being heavy but with no melody.
If Lars is right this album should be great seeing that Master of Puppets is there best album, closely followed by Ride the Lightning. Looking forward to it. I'm definitely going to give the album a chance, but I'm not putting my hopes up too high. Didn't they use similar wording when St. Anger whas in the making?
Here are the song titles in the running order . . .
That Was Just Your Life
The End Of The Line
Broken, Beat & Scarred
The Day That Never Comes
All Nightmare Long
Cyanide
The Unforgiven III 
The Judas Kiss
Suicide & Redemption
My Apocalypse hopefully it will be in the same style as st anger which is one of their best albums! i love the raw sound it has! when is it coming out?? i want it nooow I'm definitely putting my hopes up now...
It's looking good so far, which is, well... good.
