MUSIC REVIEW: Death Magnetic
There it was in front of me, Metallica's latest album. I threw it into the CD player feeling the way I've felt throwing the last few Metallica albums in the CD player.
Knowledge – That I'm about to listen to the latest offering from the fathers of thrash metal, the band that has smashed everything in its way to become the biggest heavy metal band of all time.
And hope – that maybe the gods will put on their leather boots again and make a solid thrash album, another one from their stable that will blow minds for years to come.
We all know how thrash metal came about, and what the '80s were like, and that along with Metallica, Megadeth and Slayer formed the trinity of thrash metal.
While Megadeth and Slayer have managed to stay 'metal', faltering only once or twice, Metallica was the band that drastically changed its style, losing the respect of countless fans along the way. Load and Reload, though powerful albums, were not even close to the kind of music the band was known for, and left many fans feeling cheated.
Their last album St. Anger is regarded as a 'joke' in metal history, as it only showed what the greatest band in the world had been reduced to.
After dashing fans' hopes for years, the band has returned with a new producer and a new attitude and the old logo! As good as the first four, gripping like the fifth one, slightly better or even worse than St. Anger, you ask?
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URBANEYE
Heard a new slayer album is on its way? Christ illusion
satisfied me
Ya metallica always own da planet ,but when are they coming
to india .Waiting to see them live before i die.
say maiden ,megadeth,waiting for metallica & slayer
All hail the trinity of thrash! Metallica, megadeth and
slayer rule this world!!!!
In any case, i was talking about the three thrash bands that
have influenced me as a listener. 'trinity of thrash' is
something i came up with while writing this review, not a
term i read somewhere. It made me laugh to hear you say
'there is no such thing as the trinity of thrash'. Buzz off.
Exodus is way better than anthrax.
I know all i need to know about thrash, might watch the
documentary if i ever get in the mood. I'll make something
real easy for you to understand, when it comes to
influencing music and musicians or music-lovers, anthrax
comes nowhere close to metallica, megadeth and slayer.
If thats the case, then i'd add testament to the list
effectively making it the big six and then someone else will
add some other band to the list. Thus, making it an endless
list of one's favourite thrash bands. But this isnt the
case. The fact is that these four bands have influence other
bands. Thus making them the first wave of thrash metal.
Exodus draws inspiration from mustaine's guitar playing.
Thats what gary holt says.
explaining will take too much time and space. I suggest
you watch get thrashed, a documentary made in 2006. Explains
a lot of stuff about thrash metal. Makes things easier to
understand.
Syed, that way there were the big 5 if you include exodus,
who were also brilliant.
There is no trinity of thrash.
ever heard of the big four?
metallica
megadeth
slayer
anthrax
I like the review - they rocked the world with their heavy
metal music