Death Magnetic came up again in my album rotation system and I keep thinking to myself two things;

1 - I can't believe how good this is!

2- I can't believe how much hate there is/was for this.



Metallica!

After the steaming turd that was St. Anger, it was impossible for them to sink any lower. The only place to go was up.

I enjoy Death Magnetic quite a bit. It will never top any of the "classics" and is probably as close to a return to thrash as we'll ever see from these guys again. It's an enjoyable album al the way through with one glaring exception, 'The Unforgiven III'. Totally out of place and unnecessary on the album. I don't know if having Rick Rubin really helped anything at all, but moving away from Rob Rock was a step in the right direction as far as I'm concerned.

It was nice to see the guys have a little spark in them again. With any luck that little spark will ignite a fire in them, now that there is a current band of "retro thrashers" doing it harder and in some cases better than the old guard. And even seeing some of the old timers (Testament, Overkill) stepping it up again.

Seeing the band perform some of the songs from DM live also helped make it a much more enjoyable album, one that still gets spins from me. It's aging pretty well so far.

I like it well enough. It's not earth shattering, but then again, it doesn't have to be. It's one of the band's better albums in over two decades.

I thought it was kinda boring...not bad...just boring.

I still give it a spin every so often, which is more than I can say for ST. ANGER or either of the LOAD combo.

It's ok, but I think it's just as boring as Of Fire does.

i enjoyed it more than the last 3 Metallica albums & the last 7 Megadeth.

Never bought it,dont plan on it either. I dont know what it is about them I just cant listen to much of their stuff anymore.I still like the old stuff alright every now and then but I dont plan on buying any more of their stuff.

It's just amazing to me how much their contemporaries are blowing them away and yet they sell so much more.

I loved it but I think I wanted to love it because the last three Metallica albums were very disappointing me, I do like 'Load' and believe it or not 'St. Anger' but this album was excellent IMO, except for 'The Unforgiven III" that song is utter crap.

Good point metalinmyveins.

But DIO was probably every bit as much like that and he enjoyed about 1/100000 of their popularity so it must be much more than that ....

Yeah, Death Magnetic just bored me. I had a burn of it when it came out and never made it through in one listen.

I think it's pretty good.

I havent liked any original material by Metallica since the Black Album but I like Death Magnetic alot. I don't love it like the 80's stuff but it seems to be a step in the right direction for them.

I thought it was good. I am glad it was better than some of the previous efforts but it hasnt had the staying power of the first three..

Excellent album!!!! I still play it - best thing since The Black Album and I would rank it right after the first four classic.

from what ive heard off of it, i would never listen to it. but, as someone said, its at least a step in the right direction. i guess im sort of an atypical metalhead in that even metallicas prime material doesnt hold as much appeal to me as most of their contemporaries, both in the bay area (local) scene and in the german scene, among other locations.

Very good album, but I still think it sounds like an album full of great parts. Very few songs have a smooth flow; it's all cool ideas cut-and-pasted together in Pro Tools or whatever. You can see them doing this in those in-studio videos.

It's too bad, really. Had they managed to find great transitions between all those parts, instead of just unnaturally piecing parts together, the album would be pretty sick. But for me, despite diggin' it, the flow is off.

It's a good record, the first Metallica album I liked since Justice. I played it quite a bit when it first came out, but only a few times since.

It would have been better with a shorter running time, drop off a couple mediocre tracks and it would feel more solid.