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Metallica have announced their replacement for departed Jason Newstead.
Coming into the "Metallicamp" for their new album to be released in June called...."Sgt Anger" (stifles laughter).
And who is it?
Robert Trujillo
Who? Ask the nu-metal imps in hoodies?
The bass player from seminal skatecore band Suicidal Tendencies and Infectious Grooves.
Sgt Anger promises a return to "the noise, size and hate that Metallica what they were".
Which translates into:
They've stopped using string sections and ballads and have realised their fans now think they're big poofs.
Can't deny it either.
Last good album they made was "And Justice for All".
A shocking departure from Harvester of Sorrow to Nothing Else Matters.
Hell, even their bass player walked out on them in disgust.
So an awesome bass player joins a once-good metal band in the dying embers of their days.
Coming into the "Metallicamp" for their new album to be released in June called...."Sgt Anger" (stifles laughter).
And who is it?
Robert Trujillo
Who? Ask the nu-metal imps in hoodies?
The bass player from seminal skatecore band Suicidal Tendencies and Infectious Grooves.
Sgt Anger promises a return to "the noise, size and hate that Metallica what they were".
Which translates into:
They've stopped using string sections and ballads and have realised their fans now think they're big poofs.
Can't deny it either.
Last good album they made was "And Justice for All".
A shocking departure from Harvester of Sorrow to Nothing Else Matters.
Hell, even their bass player walked out on them in disgust.
So an awesome bass player joins a once-good metal band in the dying embers of their days.
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Metallica annoy me. All this fuss about downloading their music is ridiculous when you consider what they charge for their DVDs. The RRPs for Cunning Stunts and S&M are between 30 and 35 quid. I swear I read somewhere (Garage Inc book I think) that Hetfield used to go round Lars' house and just copy all his tapes that he got imported from the UK as well. Hetfield - Hypocrit. Lars - Rich boy. Hammet - the man.
However, having said that, they still rule. Admittedly, Load and Reload weren't great. They had some good songs on but ultimately they were poor compared to the earlier stuff. However, Black Album was a superb album. Just because it wasn't all heavy doesn't make it Boyzone. Just because that was the most commercial album, you think it makes you more of a fam to say it's crap? You only like the stuff before a band is famous, right? After that, it's not 'cool' anymore.
However, having said that, they still rule. Admittedly, Load and Reload weren't great. They had some good songs on but ultimately they were poor compared to the earlier stuff. However, Black Album was a superb album. Just because it wasn't all heavy doesn't make it Boyzone. Just because that was the most commercial album, you think it makes you more of a fam to say it's crap? You only like the stuff before a band is famous, right? After that, it's not 'cool' anymore.
Goatboy wrote:
> They used to before they turned into Boyzone with swearing
How dare you? And LP and LB are supporting them? I like Linkin Park, but come on :P
> They used to before they turned into Boyzone with swearing
How dare you? And LP and LB are supporting them? I like Linkin Park, but come on :P
Axl Dickinson wrote:
Just because that was the most commercial album, you think it
> makes you more of a fam to say it's crap? You only like the stuff
> before a band is famous, right? After that, it's not 'cool' anymore.
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Hardly.
Metallica were massive before the black album, sorry to break it to you mate.
They sold huge quantities of records, played a massive gig in Russia (the first Western rock gig allowed there) and had platinum sales.
Then Bob "Motley Crue" Rock got involved and it turned rubbish.
If you watch the "Cliff 'em All" video, you can see Hetfield on stage at some club saying "Death to hair metal" and Ulrich saying "Bands sing about...dragons and fire and all that crap, man that's weak. We like to tackle topics head-on, give 'em some Metallidamage"
Uh-huh, nice words.
So explain "Wolf & Man" then Lars. A song about what..a werewolf?
Nothing Else Matters? String sections, people walking down the aisle to it?
From the same band that wrote One, Sanatarium, Leper Messiah, Ride The Lightning, Fade To Black etc?
It's got nothing to do with them being "cool because they're famous".
It's to do with watching the Cunning Stunts DVD and seeing Kirk say "I have a thing about strangers touching me, I dont like to get too close to them".
It's to do with seeing Lars having his hair done by an assistant and putting powder-base make up.
It's to do with even their bass player walking away and then saying "Put me and Voivoid against Metallica any day of the week, I'll blow them out of the water. We used to rock man, I don't know what Metallica is anymore"
If your bass player walks because you got soft, it's nowt to do with fame.
It's purely to do with weak songs, over-production and Lars Ulrich putting his ham-fisted, tom loving, weak-drumming fingerprints all over their work.
Compare:
One, Orion, Battery, Call of Khtulu, Harvester of Sorrow, Shortest Straw, Damage Inc, Dyer's Eve
and all the old stuff to:
Unforgiven, Nothing Else Matters, Mama Said, Wolf & Man.
Not even in the same league.
And a band that prided itself on bootlegging imports, letting fans tape soundboard recordings, and issued the Garage Days Inc EP with the price printed on the cover so stores couldn't charge full price that has now become a band suing fans for downloading stuff from Napster?
Cliched, corporate dinosaurs that are purely into the $$$.
And if you doubt just how lame they've become, check out the support acts for their tour.
Limp Bizkit and Linkin Park....*shakes head*
Just because that was the most commercial album, you think it
> makes you more of a fam to say it's crap? You only like the stuff
> before a band is famous, right? After that, it's not 'cool' anymore.
---
Hardly.
Metallica were massive before the black album, sorry to break it to you mate.
They sold huge quantities of records, played a massive gig in Russia (the first Western rock gig allowed there) and had platinum sales.
Then Bob "Motley Crue" Rock got involved and it turned rubbish.
If you watch the "Cliff 'em All" video, you can see Hetfield on stage at some club saying "Death to hair metal" and Ulrich saying "Bands sing about...dragons and fire and all that crap, man that's weak. We like to tackle topics head-on, give 'em some Metallidamage"
Uh-huh, nice words.
So explain "Wolf & Man" then Lars. A song about what..a werewolf?
Nothing Else Matters? String sections, people walking down the aisle to it?
From the same band that wrote One, Sanatarium, Leper Messiah, Ride The Lightning, Fade To Black etc?
It's got nothing to do with them being "cool because they're famous".
It's to do with watching the Cunning Stunts DVD and seeing Kirk say "I have a thing about strangers touching me, I dont like to get too close to them".
It's to do with seeing Lars having his hair done by an assistant and putting powder-base make up.
It's to do with even their bass player walking away and then saying "Put me and Voivoid against Metallica any day of the week, I'll blow them out of the water. We used to rock man, I don't know what Metallica is anymore"
If your bass player walks because you got soft, it's nowt to do with fame.
It's purely to do with weak songs, over-production and Lars Ulrich putting his ham-fisted, tom loving, weak-drumming fingerprints all over their work.
Compare:
One, Orion, Battery, Call of Khtulu, Harvester of Sorrow, Shortest Straw, Damage Inc, Dyer's Eve
and all the old stuff to:
Unforgiven, Nothing Else Matters, Mama Said, Wolf & Man.
Not even in the same league.
And a band that prided itself on bootlegging imports, letting fans tape soundboard recordings, and issued the Garage Days Inc EP with the price printed on the cover so stores couldn't charge full price that has now become a band suing fans for downloading stuff from Napster?
Cliched, corporate dinosaurs that are purely into the $$$.
And if you doubt just how lame they've become, check out the support acts for their tour.
Limp Bizkit and Linkin Park....*shakes head*
>
> And a band that prided itself on bootlegging imports, letting fans
> tape soundboard recordings, and issued the Garage Days Inc EP with the
> price printed on the cover so stores couldn't charge full price that
> has now become a band suing fans for downloading stuff from Napster?
>
I know nothing about Metallica, but that annoys me muchly.
> Limp Bizkit and Linkin Park....*shakes head*
And I agree there.
> And a band that prided itself on bootlegging imports, letting fans
> tape soundboard recordings, and issued the Garage Days Inc EP with the
> price printed on the cover so stores couldn't charge full price that
> has now become a band suing fans for downloading stuff from Napster?
>
I know nothing about Metallica, but that annoys me muchly.
> Limp Bizkit and Linkin Park....*shakes head*
And I agree there.
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