I thought Death Magnetic was their best album since AJFA
Any particular tracks you would recommend someone start off with, if they want to get a taste for the album?
Load and ReLoad were for the most part shit too.
St Anger was crap.... just like load and reload
I wasn't even born for the first few albums so I don't have that emotional involvement with their earliest stuff. I know a lot of old school fans got super pissed when Load came out (no pun intended).
Death Magnetic is goodI said this Fn sucks and im just going to pretend these guys arent around anymore and so thats what I did
Doon tis doon tis doon tis lars drums were so bad on that man
I wasn't even born for the first few albums so I don't have that emotional involvement with their earliest stuff. I know a lot of old school fans got super pissed when Load came out (no pun intended).
"Load" was basically Metallica's concession that Grunge Pop had won. They betrayed themselves to stay relevant. Can't blame their fans for hating the shit out of it.
Death Magnetic is good
I understand old school fans hating Load because it was different; I hated St. Anger because it was different than the Metallica I liked, too. But IMO there's an important distinction: the music on St. Anger was terrible regardless of genre, whereas I think the music on Load is good. Both St. Anger and Load differ from the versions of Metallica we knew, but at least Load had well-crafted songs on it.
I can understand hating your favorite band shifting genres, I guess, but I don't engage in it as long as it's good. Look at The Beatles. Imagine being pissed when Rubber Soul came out because the songs didn't sound like "Love Me Do"? Lol.
That being said, I really enjoyed the Load album from beginning to end. Ain't My Bitch kicks that album off right, and The Outlaw Torn is a great way to finish. I thought the album had a great feel to it. I remember it coming out in the summer of 96, and thinking it was a great heavy summertime kind of album. Makes sense since the album seems to have been heavily influenced by desert rock. I was also 11 years old at the time when I do the math, so I wasn't so stuck in my ways in what I thought their sound should be. It was already obvious their sound was changing after the black album.
Fair enough.
I really don't have a dog in this fight, as Metallica was never that near and dear to my heart. I actually find it funny how so many were offended by "Load", as if their fans were so offended by the change in direction by the same band who hated "Napster". Odd correlation, I know, but these guys have proven that they don't give a fuck about anything that doesn't benefit themselves. "Load" was their way of fitting in, and nothing more. They didn't give a fuck about how they were perceived, as long as they got paid. That's Metallica in a nutshell.