Anger, as well as a resurgence in the popularity of metal, the band decided to return to their earlier roots and in 2008 released their ninth studio album, the Rick Rubin-produced Death Magnetic. The album was critically appraised and again debuted at #1 on the US Billboard chart, making ...
Metallica borrowed the title “Ride the Lightning,” about a possessed death-row inmate, from Stephen King’sThe Stand,and a few riffs for the song from one of founding lead guitarist Dave Mustaine’s leftover riff tapes, which surprised the guitarist when he was forming Megadeth. “There’...
After years of wild thrash metal, Metallica simplified everything and became the biggest band in the world. The Black Album’s dark, muscular sound would permanently alter the course of heavy music.经过多年的敲击金属,金属乐队简化了一切,成为当时世界上最成功的乐队。《The Black Album(Metallica同名...
Metallica’s members have survived some of the dark themes — death, destruction and desolation — that threads through its music, and their induction was a chance to celebrate their legacy as perhaps the hardest band to ever walk the earth. The event also served as a reunion as bassist Jaso...
With engineer Greg Fidelman doing day-to-day sessions as Rubin oversaw everything, Death Magnetic was released on September 12, 2008. A more organically made album, it was the perfect fusion of Metallica’s early past and their increasingly experimental future, and the popular response was ...
This tense environment was the perfect place to bring out the musicians’ creativity. James Hetfield wrote a song about his mom’s death. She had died from cancer when James was still a teenager refusing medical assistance, thinking that God would save her. The anger, sadness, isolation, and...
“Fade to Black” sat proudly with the aggression of “Fight Fire With Fire” and “Creeping Death.” Q Prime Management and Elektra Records both moved quickly to take the band on by the Fall of ’84 and with the road getting busier and more international, the bands’ stature rapidly ...
Eight years ago I reviewed Metallica’s last album, Death Magnetic in RC, giving it three stars and suggesting more disciplined self-editing was needed. The same still applies now – do they not read Record Collector…? Album,Reviews
Other standout tracks include “For Whom the Bell Tolls,”“Creeping Death” and the epic instrumental closer “The Call of Ktulu.” Many insist that ‘Ride the Lightning’ is Metallica’s best album, and it’s hard to argue against the nearly flawless record, but they would top themselves...
In January 1988, Metallica regrouped following the release of three increasingly successful studio albums and the death, some 15 months earlier, of bass player Cliff Burton, who had been crushed beneath the band's tour bus when it crashed in Sweden. Bassist Jason Newsted joined singer/rhythm gui...