Well as we told you, Metallica leads this year’s group of nominees for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, following last years inductees, and people are actually placing bets on who is going to win; as you could probably guess, almost all bets are directed towards the metal gods, despite the fact that they haven’t released anything to their full potential in more than 15 years, and their latest album has stirred mixed opinions….
Sometime last year I was pretty pissed off that two world shattering bands like Metallica or The Stooges didn’t make the cut for 2008’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominees list. That was a bit non-cool. Anyway, it seems my lamentations were well heard and both bands, as well as Run-D.M.C., War, Wanda Jackson, Bobby Womack, Little Anthony and the Imperials, Chic, and Jeff Beck were added to the nominee list for 2009’s Half…
The latest scandal in the rock scene erupted a few days ago, after it was shamefully discovered that the latest Metallica record, Death Magnetic, released just this Friday, sounds a lot, lot better on Guitar Hero 3, then on the actual CD. That’s what mastering engineer Ian Shepherd discovered when, on a tip from a Metallica forum, he compared the compression rates between the CD and the GH versions. What’s even sadder is that the…
Artist name: Metallica Album name: Death Magnetic Label: Warner Bros Gender: Thrash Metal Release date: September 10, 2008 ZMErating: 9/10 Website: www.metallica.com So we have it ladies and gentleman guys, the highly expected and anticipated back to the roots oh-my-god-will-it-suck Metallica album is here. While I will get into technicalities, and both objective and subjective opinions, there’s something you people who are really in a hurry need to know; it doesn’t suck. It’s not as…
Here’s something I managed to grab off a cool thread on 7chan (no, I don’t hang out there, but a WoW buddy linked me). Yup, that’s Enter Sandman on a rhythm of lol cats. Now, that’s what I call LOL.
When we unveiled Metallica’s first single off the new album, “The Day That Never Comes,” a few days ago the song was met with mixt feelings both by me and you, the readers of ZME. A part of me feels the song is quite good with some awesome pre-black album metal hooks, but the other part feels like this is just another black album re-hash with the same old riffs over and over again. Alas,…
A few months ago Dave Grohl wrote an open letter to metal gods Metallica, urging them not to ‘release it until it kicks ass!’ Now, with only a few weeks before Death Magnetic hits the shelves, things are getting really tense and Metallica wants to make everybody proud, even the Foo Fighters. So, with this in mind joining Metallica on September 4th for a live Death Magnetic listening party, from the Metallica HQ, will be…
The new Metallica album is getting hotter and hotter, and it’s just making us more and more interested and frantic about it. After the single, the new video, Cyanide, now we have the words of the masters of puppets themselves, talking about their new release. In the latest issue of Kerrang! magazine, you could read an interview, which is just amazing, at least for me. So tu cut a long story short, here’s what they…
Metallica, trying to be badasss
What a weekend for Metallica. After providing a world class performance at Texas’ Ozzfest, where they also revealed a new song Cyanide, the influential metal icons also mapped an extensive North American tour, in support of their upcoming album, Death Magnetic, which seems to be complete! The Sword will open all dates with Lamb Of God, Machine Head, and Down opening select dates Dates, plus an awesome artwork of the new album, right after the…
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