I was listening a radio show in my car while coming here and the guy there war reviewing Metallica’s new record from his personal point of view and I realized that I haven’t listened anything from that record so far. I think I just missed it. Also I don’t watch that much music oriented television these days due to the current trends in music so if it was on TV(and I guess it was), I missed it also.
But intrigued by the review of this guy, from which I strongly remember 2 things, the fact that the record has an intentionally rugged sound, not heavily edited, to preserve the spirit and that guitar solos are back, I looked for a video on YT and I found this one, The day that never comes.
I must say I love Metallica’s ballads, I even liked the sound change on ReLoad, but this song…I don’t get it.
It doesn’t have anything, doesn’t bring anything to me, I think that if it wouldn’t be the video I would not even have the patience to listen it to the end. To me, it sounds like something done in a moment when they had no inspiration to write a good song. I will try to listen some more songs, maybe I just don’t like this one but I will find others that I will like, but this one, being promoted, it should be one of the representative songs for the album, one to make you buy the new record.
Is it me or you feel the same about it?
PS: However, something’s going on, 8 minutes song, rock solo, thrashy/speed riffs, rock feeling. No melody, but hey, maybe it’s just me.
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Dr. J
October 2nd, 2008 at 7:43 pm
Without the video, I’m not sure I would have listened to the end, either…
Cheap Guitars
October 2nd, 2008 at 10:06 pm
I could not get over all the ahh’s!!!! It was like he felt he really said something and had to emphasize it with an ahhhh! Just didn’t work for me.
It is like they just wrote it and didn’t really fill it.
Video or not I didn’t make it to the end.
I do hope the other songs on the cd are better.
KJ
Cheap Guitars
October 2nd, 2008 at 10:09 pm
Sorry, I meant they didn’t feel the music, not fill it.
KJ
Jon
October 3rd, 2008 at 1:35 am
I really like Death Magnetic, not the song you mentioned above so much though. There is a great 10 minute instrumental called “Suicide and Redemption” which is awesome, also “Broken Beat and Scarred” which is very “And Justice” era. Love it.
Ovidiu
October 3rd, 2008 at 7:52 am
Seem I am not the only one with these feelings about it. However, I will try to listen more, to have an honest view of the album. It should not be too hard since I like Metallica’s music, I just hope this song is the only one that doesn’t tell me anything to me.
Sammy
October 6th, 2008 at 6:25 am
As a long time (since Kill ‘Em All) fan who really got impatient with the lack of quality control on Load/Reload and the atrocity that was St. Anger, I was not only expecting, but hoping, to hate Death Magnetic so I could write them off forever.
However, I not only like it a lot, I think it’s a legitimate redemption.
Ovidiu
October 6th, 2008 at 7:40 am
And how about this song here? Do you like it? Or you just like the idea of the fact that came back to rock?
Sammy
October 6th, 2008 at 5:32 pm
As for this song, I think it’s decent enough, but one of the weaker songs on the album.
Ovidiu
October 7th, 2008 at 10:47 am
Then I must take some time to listen to the other songs, if you say that the others are better.