MetallicA's nieuwste album: St. Anger

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Op donderdag 3 april 2003 17:50 schreef tuky het volgende:

een van jullie nog nieuws over MetallicA?

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Op donderdag 3 april 2003 17:54 schreef thecrook het volgende:

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Ja, sinds het "Black Album" zuigen ze met behoorlijk lange halen

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Op donderdag 3 april 2003 17:56 schreef tuky het volgende:
maar de geruchten zijn wel weer dat dit eentje word zo als vroeger... zo als Master of Puppits

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Op donderdag 3 april 2003 17:56 schreef tuky het volgende:
ja oke.... heb je gelijk in...

maar de geruchten zijn wel weer dat dit eentje word zo als vroeger... zo als Master of Puppits

dus laten we hopen

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(ik was metallica fan tot dynamo 1997)

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Op donderdag 3 april 2003 18:00 schreef Vampier het volgende:
(ik was metallica fan tot dynamo 1997)

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Op donderdag 3 april 2003 18:00 schreef hyperfuzz het volgende:

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wat gebeurde er toen voor ernstigs??

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Op donderdag 3 april 2003 18:09 schreef Vampier het volgende:

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Ze zouden komen maar traden niet op............. dus we kregen een audio tape te horen en de 'gordijnen' bleven dicht.

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Op donderdag 3 april 2003 17:56 schreef tuky het volgende:
maar de geruchten zijn wel weer dat dit eentje word zo als vroeger... zo als Master of Puppits

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Neh, het zal wel weer een of andere muzikale flop worden, die toch verkoopt omdat er 'Metallica' op de CD staat.

Overigens moet ik zeggen dat de gratis DVD dan wel weer een positieve en leuke actie vind.

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From Axl's The Four Horsemen, comes the entire, translated, Swedish review
from Martin Carlsson:

Close-up's Martin Carlsson leaves an exclusive report from the studio
north of San Francisco where Metallica's working on their new album "St.
Anger".

I swear on the bible, on my mother's grave or whatever - the following
text is nothing less than the complete truth. This statement needs to be
made, quite simply because you're probably not going to believe me. I almost
wonder if I've really listened to the new Metallica album "St Anger" myself,
or if somebody has been playing a trick on me and played me some new,
exciting aggro-band. You see, "St. Anger" is a chock, one of music history's
greatest! It is as if "Load" and "Reload" has been deleted from the map, as
if the Black Album never existed, as if the Metallica we've come to know
never really existed. The five songs (all of which are as of yet untitled
but the title-track) I've heard exhibits a sound so EXTREME and raw that all
you can do is sit there chocked with your jaw on the floor.

I'm not joking.

Twenty journalists are gathered in the control-room of the studio north of
San Francisco. We get comfortable. The air is vibrating with excitement, and
then? BAM!! The first song (working title: Frantic) kicks in with hypnotic,
almost industrial Slayer-riffs. What the fuck is going on? "You live it or
lie it", chants James Hetfield and goes on with "my lifestyle determines my
death style". It is ultra-tight metalcore like it has never been performed
before. Lars ulrich's fat drum-sound is replaced with an oilrig-similar
snare that's usually reminiscent of robotic industry-metal. "Do I have the
strength?", a wondering Hetfield screams in the middle of the chaos. It is a
maddening Blitzkriegstrategy with attack-waves of battering riffs, attacking
from every angle for five minutes and 54 seconds.

I'm not joking.

The war as just begun, and I really mean THE WAR, because this music would
be the perfect soundtrack to the media coverage of the war on Iraq. The
title-track blazes away with a ultra-fast bulldozermosh that leaves Max
Cavalera far behind. We are talking monster-metallized punk from another
planet; a twisted and overdosed Dischange just released from rehab! We are
talking beyond sound-speed, especially regarding the drum-work. The
double-bass pounds away mercilessly and Lars Ulrich's use of the snare are
almost -get this!- blast-beats!! It's going to be interesting seeing him
trying to repeat this live - if the dane is usually soaked from sweat and
carried to the lodge after traditional concerts, then he's going to need an
oxygen-mask and hospital personnel to wake him back to life after this.
Following this amazing intro comes a softer part where Hetfield sings "St.
Anger around my neck, he never gets respect." This ten second long part,
recurring a couple of times in the seven minute and 24 second long song, is
the only part that could be classified as soft. The Producer Bob Rock (also
on bass) assures me that this is the calmest, most stripped-down part on the
whole album. WOW! A riff similar to "Creeping Death" follows. Hetfield howls
"Fuck it all and fucking no regrets" (an exact recapitulation of the classic
in "Damage Inc."). Towards the end of the song he screams "I need to set my
anger free"... and this is exactly what he and Metallica does: releasing all
their anger.

I'm not joking.

Song number three starts up like an updated "Ride the Lightning": MEga-fat
thrash-metal in midtempo speed. The vocalist spits: "It and you can look out
motherfuckers, here I come!". Sepultura's "Roots"-era sound reminiscent in
this song, with the refrain "It world" repeated again and again. Before the
song ends at five minutes and 51 seconds, Hetfield shouts "enough, enough,
enough"

I'm not joking.

Have you missed the complex song-structures of "And Justice for All"?
Compared to this around eight minutes long piece (working title "Monster"),
the songs of the 1988 album seem more like simple Ramones' ditties. A
progressive blanket of sound that warms like a massive and super-intricate
Tool, only a thousand times heavier! Hetfield chants over a delicious part
that goes into what could be called a chorus with some use of fantasy: "We
the people, are we the people?". This phrase is repeated two times and "some
kind of monster" three times before the singer concludes "this monster
lives". There is actually something here that could be called groove, not
entirely unlike Pantera although vastly heavier. The guitars are so damned
insane, so damned evil, so damned incredible! The fact is that there isn't
anything remotely like a traditional guitar-solo in any of these five songs.
Hetfield and Kirk Hammett use their instruments like surgical tools. The
guitars shrieks and scream as if Tom Morello and Kerry King made a deal and
decided to take the Devil's music not one but ten steps further.

I'm not joking.

The most wicked part is however the last, whose working-name is "All
Within My Hands". A very strange piece with an instrumental intro of one
minute and fifteen seconds. The tempo is ultra-fast, taking so many twists
and turns that you get all dizzy. "All Within My Hands" is shouted and then
sung in an Alice In Chains manner. And the ending? MAN OH MAN! Like a
possessed madman Hetfield screams "Kill kill kill kill!!" ad absurdum -
we're talking deranged shrieks coming from a psychopathic Tom Araya (think
Slayer's "Kill Again" only even more insane). You'd think it was over after
that. But no. It is like watching an exciting thriller with so many
surprises that you finally don't believe an ending is forthcoming. Yes,
after a heavy-as-lead finale it winds down at eight minutes and 55 seconds.

I'm not joking.

20 Journalists finally leave the control-room and look at each other. No
one needs say anything; the looks say it all: What in god's name have we
just experienced? That Metallica, once tired old farts, have made a complete
180, and now sound like a bunch of hormone-reeking bucks in heat, is the
most incredible thing that's happened in music history. "St. Anger" is the
real "Reload". "St. Anger" doesn't sound like anything the group has done
before, it hardly even sounds like Metallica. "St. Anger" is a modern,
super-brutal metal-album that is going to chock and knock the entire music
world. Melodies? Nope, there's not much here that reminds one of traditional
melodies or arrangements such as verse, bridge, chorus. The 10th of June
could become known as the day that shook the world. If you haven't catched
on yet:

I'm not joking.

Martin Carlsson

en dit:

Kerrang: Metallica's 'St. Anger' Is Band's Finest Effort To Date

METALLICA's forthcoming effort, "St. Anger", is nothing short of "the finest thing [the band] have put their name to," according to the latest issue of Britain's Kerrang! magazine, which recently had an opportunity to preview a couple of the cuts set to appear on the CD. "The volume is intoxicating, the songs even more so," the report continues. "METALLICA haven't gone backwards, they have gone elsewhere, somewhere they haven't really gone before. Much of the speed is back speed that recalls the days of 'Battery' and 'Dyers Eve'. But the format is remarkedly different. This isn't controlled aggression, much of it is uncontrolled violence. It's ironic that at a time when the band are so at peace with one another they should make an album that sounds like they're at war. As one track follows the another there are only working titles like 'Monster' and 'Frantic' the difference not only between what you expect but what has gone becomes clear. There's no space between the drums and the guitars, there are riffs everywhere, there is anger and confusion 'Do not know the answer, I don't know what the question is' is one lyric - there is swearing and shouting and time changes and speed and fury. It is difficult on a first listen not to surmise that 'St. Anger' is the finest thing METALLICA have put their name to. All the songs I'm assured, sound like this. There are no ballads. Instead there's an assault of speed and volume and anger and intensity. This is exactly the kind of thing that made a slogan such as 'Birth, school, METALLICA, death' an apposite and appropriate summation of everything this band could muster, both in themselves and their audience."

maar we merken het wel

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"St. Anger" doesn't sound like anything the group has done
before, it hardly even sounds like Metallica. "St. Anger" is a modern, super-brutal metal-album.

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Op donderdag 3 april 2003 18:16 schreef lordhelmet het volgende:

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Yeah right, dat gaat ze met hun huidige bezetting (en geld-hongerige instelling) ook echt lukken.

Neh, het zal wel weer een of andere muzikale flop worden, die toch verkoopt omdat er 'Metallica' op de CD staat.

Overigens moet ik zeggen dat de gratis DVD dan wel weer een positieve en leuke actie vind.

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En al die negatieve kritiek altijd.... Net als in al die andere Metallica achtige topics... (krijgen we dadelijk natuurlijk weer de "slayer-metallica discussie!)

Metallica is gewoon ruig! Punt. Vind je niet? luister niet , stoort het niet!

De nieuwe cd wordt gewoon vet! En ik kan niet wachten op Fields Of Rock!

Van al die negatieve reacties hier wordt ik niet goed hoor, zorg dan zelf dat je zo goed wordt als je dat niet kan velen!!

-industrial slayer riffs
-tom morello/slayer achtige solo's
-lars die erg goed drumt
-beste metallica album ooit.

ik ben ook zeer benieuwd natuurlijk.. en ga ze dan ook zeker bekijken op FoR!

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Op donderdag 3 april 2003 21:46 schreef Ibanez het volgende:

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Wie is hier geld hongerig!

En al die negatieve kritiek altijd.... Net als in al die andere Metallica achtige topics... (krijgen we dadelijk natuurlijk weer de "slayer-metallica discussie!)

Metallica is gewoon ruig! Punt. Vind je niet? luister niet , stoort het niet!

De nieuwe cd wordt gewoon vet! En ik kan niet wachten op Fields Of Rock!

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METALLICA is en blijft gewoon ruig de gene die dat niet vinden moeten dat zelf weten ik vind van wel.

metallica rock on!!!!