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Music : The Box Magnetic Death In A Coffin
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The Box Magnetic Death In A Coffin by: Metallica |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0602517804609 Format: Box set Label: Mercury Records Manufacturer: Mercury Records Number Of Discs: 3 Publisher: Mercury Records Release Date: September 12, 2008 Running Time: 75 minutes Studio: Mercury Records Sales Rank: 32238 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: Amazon.co.uk Review: As many of their early fans would agree, Danish-Californian quartet Metallica seemed to lose it around the mid 90s. Dropping the hard-nosed, blue-collar appeal they had cultivated with their initial slew of albums, the band began to pander to a more commercial audience with diluted outings such as Load, Re-Load, Garage Inc.--not to mention 2003’s risible St Anger. Death Magnetic, Metallica’s first album in five years, is hence much anticipated. Will it be a long-awaited return to form, or a failed attempt to rekindle their inaugural power? In truth, it’s a bit of both. Helmed by veteran producer Rick Rubin, Death Magnetic reinstates many of Metallica’s early motifs--searing riffs, shredding solos, pounding drums--and even updates them with a huge, 21st century sound. The album has a decent selection of heavyweight thrills and spills, from the haunting, evocative opener "That Was Your Life", the live jam groove of "The End of the Line" and the flesh-ripping "Broken, Beat & Scarred". While Death Magnetic doesn’t come anywhere near the smouldering genius of Master of Puppets or other formative Metallica records, the band haven’t sounded this vital for many years. Reason enough for fans to rejoice. --Danny McKenna Customer Reviews
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 Rating: - One little minor thing...Okay, first of all Metallica are amazing, so it would be difficult for me to rate anything other than 5 stars - this boxset is great. It's got enough in it to make the price well worth it. Although I don't like the T-shirt much (as I can't work out whether or not the front image is supposed to be a little skewed), the box set is cool. The only minor thing I will say against it, is the Image that appears on the front of the coffin, is in fact on the plastic shrink wrap around the cardboard coffin, so once you take of the shrink wrap, off comes the logo. If you are careful, I suppose you could try and unpick it and stick it on to the box, but all the same its a little bit of a let down. Still 5 as the 2 CDs, ... Read More: Rating: - The Unforgiven III?I think with this truly amazing album MetallicA can now be forgiven for St. Anger every song on this album is truly amazing and it truly is a 5 star album and the fact that it's a heavy metal album and it stayed top of the charts in the UK for 2 weeks straight says something!!! Rating: - Great Comeback!I think this the best Metallica album since the self-titled "Metallica" (aka Black Album) and maybe better than the latter. The production capacities of Rick Rubin make the difference and Metallica rock as if this was a CD done right after "Kill'em All". In a nutshell I think with this effort Metallica wanted to demonstrate that they can rock still big time (if anyone had any doubts they could this is). Their sound links well with the pre Black Album era whilst portraying the well in the future. I think its definitely a great buy. Rating: - MindblowingThis album is absolutely stunning,and the coffin box-set is for hardcore fans only.It's not cheap but for the true fan it's a must.And in the future the value of this box-set will only go up. Rating:  - Only for the nutters!Radiohead did one, Nine Inch Nails did one, The Verve did one, and it seems like every major band's doing one - Metallica no exception. 4 stars goes to both the album itself as well as the set. While Death Magnetic pales in comparison to the first decade of their career, it's easily the best thing they've done since ill trodden attempts at blues rock and garagey nu-metal. Production wise it's good but poor mastering means there is some distortion in unnecessary places, but this is not the band's fault and unfortunately a lot of new albums and remasters are like this. Yet it still doesn't take away the power of the riffage that is a combo of their cult and mainstream years. Hetfield may sound more like an angry teacher than a Sergeant ... Read More: |
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