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Originally Posted by Pedestrian
I remember a couple of years ago Metallica got huge criticism for doing this on their album.
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I remember getting
Death Magnetic the day it was released. When i brought it home and listened to it the first thing i noticed was the sound quality. On headphones the album can be very painful to listen to and some parts of the album sound a bit distorted. They remastered and re-released the album a few months afterwards i think and the sound is meant to be a lot quieter and clearer.
The best example of a 'loud' album that i've come across is
The Woods by Sleater-Kinney. At first i thought i'd downloaded a bad rip because the sound quality was so loud and distorted, but it turns out that the album sounds like that anyways. The album gain is roughly around -13.05 dB which is ridiculously loud for a studio album. The album was produced by a certain Dave Fridmann, who was also responsible for ensuring that The Flaming Lips'
At War With The Mystics album was just as loud.