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SIX FEET DOWN UNDER EP

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1 stars ????????????????

Sorry, but I do not get this joke at all. Ahhh....... Blabbermouth.com to rescue. This EP is a celebration of Metallica going back to Australia and New Zealand to do some gigs. So they invited fans to send in some bootlegs from previous visits. Jason Newsted is present on six out of eight tracks and Metallica does a full version of And Justice For All, one of my favorite Metallica songs. Unfortunate, this version of the song is bootleg quality. The sound improves pretty dramatic at the end though. The songs does not, though. Fight Fire With Fire is good, but the original is better.

Except from advertising to the world that they are now in Australia, I see no use for this EP at all. Waste of time. Waste of energy. Don't bother.

1 star

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Posted Monday, September 20, 2010 | Review Permalink
2 stars 'Six Feet Down Under' is an Australian EP, released in 2010, to coincide with Metallica's visit to the continent. While Metallica's constant touring might be something the rest of the world take for granted, Australia and New Zealand very rarely get to see the metal legends, and so this was intended as a commemoration of the band returning to the land down under.

Of course, that won't stop us non-Australians from wanting to snap it up!

'Six Feet...' consists of eight songs. Two from each tour in which Metallica played Australia, and all are bootleg quality. As they are, they're very rough and in some cases pretty rubbish. But if nothing else, it's interesting to hear the different stages of the bands career throughout each couple of tracks.

As for the songs themselves? The choices are fine, and actually avoids the same played-out and repeated hits such as 'Enter Sandman' and 'Master of Puppets', for ones not so common these days, such as 'Eye of the Beholder', 'Through the Never' and 'Frantic'. Probably could have done without 'Low Man's Lyric' though.

But overall, this isn't something to take super seriously, and is more of a sentimental gesture to the fans down under than anything else. Worth owning if you're a die-hard fan, but not worth getting upset about when it fails to meet any expectations you may have had.

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Posted Wednesday, March 7, 2018 | Review Permalink

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