New Metallica Album

It would be great if they released something akin to their 80's material. The trouble with that I think, is that they don't know what metal sounds like these days. Back when they were young, they listened to and were influenced by all sorts of underground bands, like Diamond Head, Budgie, Killing Joke. And some big ones of course, but they really listened to a lot of good stuff. The past few years, ever since the late 90's, I see them namedrop a lot of popular bands, from Korn to Trivium, and if that is where they get their influences from, how can they ever sound like they did back in the 80's? I'm not sure they've ever heard bands like Nevermore, Dark Tranquillity, Persuader, etc etc that is bringing metal forth. Instead they've been influenced by these seemingly metal bands like Trivium and all those other "metalcore" bands. I think the closest they've been to metal in recent years is their short tour with In Flames. And In Flames isn't exactly the purest metal out there. That said, I wouldn't mind if Metallica simply release a hard rock album, but it seems like metal is the only genre they were ever good at, and now they've been away from it so long that they can't find the way back. Case in point: St. Anger.

I'm sorry if I throw a lot of ideas out in this thread, but Metallica-related threads usually interest me. :)

Stjernestøv wrote: It would be great if they released something akin to their 80's material. The trouble with that I think, is that they don't know what metal sounds like these days. Back when they were young, they listened to and were influenced by all sorts of underground bands, like Diamond Head, Budgie, Killing Joke. And some big ones of course, but they really listened to a lot of good stuff. The past few years, ever since the late 90's, I see them namedrop a lot of popular bands, from Korn to Trivium, and if that is where they get their influences from, how can they ever sound like they did back in the 80's? I'm not sure they've ever heard bands like Nevermore, Dark Tranquillity, Persuader, etc etc that is bringing metal forth. Instead they've been influenced by these seemingly metal bands like Trivium and all those other "metalcore" bands. I think the closest they've been to metal in recent years is their short tour with In Flames. And In Flames isn't exactly the purest metal out there. That said, I wouldn't mind if Metallica simply release a hard rock album, but it seems like metal is the only genre they were ever good at, and now they've been away from it so long that they can't find the way back. Case in point: St. Anger. I'm sorry if I throw a lot of ideas out in this thread, but Metallica-related threads usually interest me. :)

For me too. Cretainly, they're one of my favorites bands.
And do you really think they can go Metalcore or stuff like that? I believe they don't even listen to the modern metal bands and maybe don't know what Black, Doom and Death Metal is.
BUT it's true that St. Anger is maybe a bit more modern than the other albums, but I think it's because they wanted to create an unique sound, with unique production (which is realatively bad, IMO).

I really enjoy Metallica, and although i prefer the first 4 albums i like both sides of them.

Even St. Anger, it's a great record, BUT it's just not good enough to be Metallica!
if an other band released it everyone would have loved it!

 

i've heard the "new song" and it sounds like mixture of Load and St.Anger and i don't like it (though i like load and anger occasionally). I' have no big expectations, I think it's gonna suck in a way or another (but still think it is quite good still)

Edited by progressive - January 29 2007 at 05:00

I would prefer that Metallica re-discover their 80s' epic thrash metal feel. Ride the Lightning was their masterpiece for me, along with Master of Puppets.

I consider St Anger not too bad...