The few songs I've heard off the album were unimpressive, but I'll give the whole thing a spin later. I've never really had much affection for Metallica, but boy is Ride the Lightning a great album.

I wonder who else really liked The Unforgiven III? I especially liked the piano intro. Also Suicide and Redemption is a pretty good instrumental too.

Can't wait to pick DM up tomorrow...

At first I wasn't sure about this song.... but then it grew on me. It took more than one listen to get into the song.

Dull and, dare a say it? Duller.

DM was a horrible album, terrible production (which is a shame, since rubin has impressed me in the past.) rehashed crap that neither impresses or is any way different than past crap spewed out by 'tallica in the past 10 years.
i have to agree with pitchfork on this one, DM is basically St Anger with better riffs.

10 minute trash instrumentals can not be pulled off successfully.

Maybe, but it's better than 90% of the rest of the modern-day "music" out there IMO.

I think I'd like to wait until I actually purchase the CD and give it a few listen-throughs before I actually gave a full opinion on the album.

This track and for that matter the entire new album is obviously far from their best. No Metallica release will ever be good enough to hold up to MOP and Kill Em All etc but then again thats not something I'm ever expecting so I'm never gonna be disappointed by this. The new album sounds like 40+ year olds playing thrash metal so it was always going to lack in some ways and it was never going to be mindblowing.

With that said and out the way I'm thrilled that the band are most definitely taking a step back in the right direction with this record. This is new Metallica the way I want it to sound and pisses all over St. Anger. Not that thats hard mind you.

Love the track, like the album a lot.

I've been listening to this for a while now, and I'm impressed.

The two last tracks feel like a rather weak finish considering everything that comes before it, but it's a decent album at least. Really disappointed in the production though. I'm not usually someone who pays too much attention to the production ("if it sounds decent enough, it's fine") but this is really blatantly too loud. Drums especially. I don't think I've ever heard drums distort like this before.

If I had to take a guess some of the peaks are above 0.0 which causes it to get a bit fuzzy. If you burn off a high quality rip and play it in a cd player with your settings (volume included) the same as you would any other album does it sound noticably louder?

ignorance.

I bought this album today (while it's still $10), and I'm giving it a good, unbiased first listen. I'm currently at "Suicide and Redemption", almost through with the cd. I'm thrilled that it's a big improvement from St. Anger - but it also has a lot of the same issues said album has. Some of the lyrics are downright embarrassing, production is sh*t, and there's a great deal of aimlessness and lack of flow between the songs. I also don't know why Unforgiven III was necessary. Overall, it's a nice effort and Hetfield's voice improved-ahh!

Highlight tracks: "The Judas Kiss", "All Nightmare Long", and "That Was Just Your Life".