Non-Urban Music Metallica - Death Magnetic

#1
I was pleasently surprised by this, I've had it for a few days and gave it multiple listens, it's DEFINITELY better than St. Anger, really up to par with their old stuff, imo.



That Was Just Your Life
http://http://www.zshare.net/audio/1857086942c9f857/

The End of The Line
http://http://www.zshare.net/audio/18571057fbe7d98b/

Broken, Beat & Scarred
http://http://www.zshare.net/audio/1857129927cb9909/

The Day That Never Comes
http://http://www.zshare.net/audio/185714177991182c/

Cyanide
http://http://www.zshare.net/audio/1857159203929943/

The Unforgiven III
http://http://www.zshare.net/audio/185717269e8d7c99/

The Judas Kiss
http://http://www.zshare.net/audio/18571990c6242459/

Suicide & Redemption
http://http://www.zshare.net/audio/1857216825b9e59e/

My Apocalypse
http://http://www.zshare.net/audio/18572241ef76b7b2/


note: I got each sent to my by seperate files, so I can't put up a full album link, sorry. :(
 

Chronic

Well-Known Member
#2
I haven't listened to the album properly yet but...

I started listening to it and I was pleasantly surprised but when I got to track 3 I was already bored with it and it all sounded the same. After reading some of the criticism of the album I realized it's in part due to the production. It's been described as "the lastest victim in the loudness war". Basically the industry realizes that most people use MP3s and iPods so in order to make it stand out more they make it as loud as possible, which results in worse sound quality. In turn it makes the album sound monotonous.

This Rolling Stone article goes into more detail:
The Death of High Fidelity : Rolling Stone

Another Rolling Stone article on just Death Magnetic:

"With last Friday’s release of Death Magnetic, Metallica fans knew that the band’s new album would be playable that day for Guitar Hero 3. What fans didn’t know was that the video game version of the album would actually sound better than the CD counterpart. That’s what mastering engineer Ian Shepherd discovered when, on a tip from a Metallica forum, he compared the compression rates between the CD and the GH versions. Shepherd discovered that the CD is boosted as much as compressively possible, making it ten decibels louder than the GH version while completely bleaching out the dynamic range. The subject of compression and the loudness wars was discussed in much more detail in our “The Death Of High Fidelity” piece, but Death Magnetic seems to be the biggest violator, with fans both demanding the band re-mix the album and threatening to perfectly-execute GH’s in-house version and send that to fans clamoring for a proper mix. Even Ted Jensen, who is credited with mastering DM in the liner notes, admitted on a message board, “Believe me I’m not proud to be associated with this one, and we can only hope that some good will come from this in some form of backlash against volume above all else.” Jensen said the mixers of the album are to blame for the compression problems. Metallica is usually on hand for the mixing stage, but this time around they were away in Europe."
 

Farzin

Well-Known Member
#3
^Yea I noticed this as well.

The album would be so much better if mixed properly.

Regardless though I think it's a great album and been listening to it for the past week non stop.
 

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