
Metallica just dropped a new album and it's fantastic. I've been a fan for many years and pretty much dig whatever they do despite many metal snobs turning their noses up at the last 20 years of what they've done cuz they didn't make Master of Puppets 5 times in a row. Then there was the whole Napster thing that turned people off too, but I could care less about lazy/cheap cyberdorks whining about not getting whatever digital media they want handed to them for free at the expense of those who make a living creating it. Anyways, this time around Metallica hired Rick Rubin to produce the album and he really took them to where they needed to go. I'm incapable of giving a real musical analysis cuz I don't really know anything about the science of making music, but I will say that this album is heavy and very fast and despite having a death theme it avoids being dark and dismal like so many heavy rock albums out there. I might have cut a guitar solo or two cuz sometimes I tire of the meedly meedly meedly meedly meeeeeee action, but whatevs.
Aaaand, I think the album cover design is pretty awesome.