Originally Posted by Wpnfire

I understand what you're saying here, and I've noticed this too (especially with SOAD), but it seems to me like this thread is yet another attempt to bash modern music–and I don't want to hear anymore of that fallacy of composition bull****.



This right here is basically the kind of **** I can't stand. wtf do you even mean here with this statement about the production??
The simplest explanation for why it sounds weird to you, is that you simply don't like modern Metallica...


Anyway, as far as the loudness, I don't see what the problem is, I always have soundcheck enabled anyways. I am displeased to hear that some bands artificially increase the volume of a CD at the loss of sound quality.

If that's really true, it's majorly f'd up, and I'm with you in that that needs to stop.