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So Metallica is remastering KEA and RTL, and plans to release them in 2015 sometime. No word yet on ...And Justice. They confirmed their first two on their website a few weeks ago.

Metallica.com | News | WANTED: Your Audio Recordings, Videos, and Snapshots from Kill 'Em All and Ride The Lightning

They are calling the reissues "deluxe remastered versions" whatever that means. Still, I am psyched for this.

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What a grab for money from these guys...

It will excite a lot of people, evidence by how you reacted to the news. But for me though, this just looks like a grab for money. They're still one of the biggest bands in the world, so not too sure why they'd need more money. I don't know, I could be wrong. But I see no reasons to remaster those albums.

Come on Metallica, people want an album, not remasters of old albums. I don't really care either way, as I don't really consider myself a fan anymore. But people have been waiting for new material for some time now. Haha, these guys work like snails on new stuff...new album, coming at you in 2018 and will likely sound like it was recorded in a big ass garbage can.

Key

Pretty much exactly what I was going to say.

They can't make a good album so they're going to remaster old albums. Haven't had a good album from them since Death Magnetic, and even that was mediocre.

The Batlord

Well, looks like I'm buying two actual copies of those albums before the New Year. **** that ****. The cheap production on those albums, especially on Kill 'Em All, is a large part of their charm. Metallica can only ruin them, and I have little doubt that they will.

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Oh sorry. When I said I was psyched, I was thinking ahead with this news. Here is my though process with this. The first thing is that Kill Em All could in all honesty benefit from a remaster. It is not the highest quality record they made. The next thing is that, Master of Puppets is their defining album next to their self-titled, so they are pretty much guaranteed to remaster that, and if they do that there is nothing stopping them from remastering the only album in Metallica's discography that deserves to be at least remastered, and that is ...And Justice For All.

Of course, they will probably end up releasing Master of Puppets, ...And Justice, and their s/t together, as a box set that will cost $11209247039187 because those are their most popular albums.

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****! I didn't think of that...we're doomed!

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They put out St. Anger when I was still in to them, but upon hearing the song St. Anger itself, I had one of the biggest wtf moments I have ever had, still to this do in regard to how the production on the song sounded, or how the entire album sounded. It has some of the worst production I have ever heard on an album, still to this day. They have all this money, and they can't even get top notch production? Or maybe they like they're albums sounding like crap production wise, because there has never been an album by them that had really all that great production, ever. But, St. Anger was the peak of that horrid production, just horrible...

Death Magnetic was an improvement, not really for production but more the quality of the songs collectively, it was a better album but it still bored me. Metallica has really went downhill, a damn shame....

Megadeth has released better albums than Metallica has these past ten years, longer maybe. Megadeth still puts out more or less quality albums, so what the hell is wrong with Metallica? Dave Mustaine probably laughed when he heard St. Anger and Death Magnetic, thinking boy, I sure dodged a bullet there when they booted me longer before those albums.

CoNtrivedNiHilism

I am aware that for a lot of Metallica enthusiasts, the low production values of earlier albums are part of what made those albums so great, I do understand that. But I have always wondered why a band as big as Metallica, for their entire career, lack that production that you'd expect their albums to have. I can only come to the conclusion that the band likes their albums to sound like they were recorded in a big ass garbage can. Well, good for them.

But I wonder just how much good remastering Kill Em All can benefit that album, because let's all be honest here...setting aside that it is a great album, it still sounded like crap. Maybe you will notice a difference in production after it is remastered, but I wouldn't expect much either. I'm just saying...

I'm clearly in a whatever attitude towards this, so not really taking it seriously haha. And yeah, if they are released as a box set. You can expect them to have a ridiculous price tag.

The Batlord

I don't know if I'd finish it, but I'd probably listen to St. Anger over any of Megadeth's post-Cryptic Writings albums. Ever since they "returned to metal", Dave Mustaine has been going through the motions and been putting out soulless crap that he obviously doesn't give a **** about. I'm pretty sure if he had his way he'd still be putting out embarrassing Risk-style pop rock. I'm pretty sure the last Megadeth song I actually cared about was "Die Dead Enough" off The System Has Failed, which could totally have been off Risk. I mean, if he's gonna be putting out ****ty music, he could at least put out ****ty music that he cares about. At least then there's an outside chance I might actually like a few of his songs.

But at least Metallica were trying to do something they wanted to do with St. Anger. For all the ****ty production (seriously, if they just wanted ****ty production they should have just spent less money on the production), the ****ty lyrics, the ****ty singing, and the lack of editing on the songs, deep down is a pretty cool alt-metal album.

Edit: And I don't really care about the production on most of their other albums, but leave my Kill 'Em All the **** alone!

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Silence Bush fan! You know not of what you speak. To be metal you must be hipster...it is the way of things.


EDIT: Wow, I forgot how thrashing good Slaughter Lord is.

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