Death Magnetic marks the group's split with producer Bob Rock, who helmed every Metallica album from 1991 to 2004 and pushed them toward concision and immediacy — until St. Anger, when he seemed to throw up his hands altogether. (As the 2004 documentary Some Kind of Monster demonstrates, Rock deserved credit for getting any music at all out of a band determined to self-destruct.) New producer Rick Rubin shoves Metallica in the opposite direction: Half of Death Magnetic's tracks are over seven minutes long, with song structures that are not so much "verse/chorus/verse" as "long intro/heavy jam/verse/even heavier jam/chorus/bridge/wild solo/outro."
This feels like the right move for an era where Guitar Hero is the new rock radio. (Appropriately, the full album will be downloadable for GH play.) And it's not as if Top 40 stations were going to slip in Metallica between Chris Brown and the Jonas Brothers, anyway. These songs rarely feel too long: At their best, they combine the melodic smarts of Metallica's mature work with the fully armed-and-operational battle power of their early days. "The End of the Line" is a freight-train rocker with a ricocheting riff and lyrics about a doomed, drug-addicted star. It builds to a frantic guitar duel between Kirk Hammett and Hetfield, a wah-wah-crazed solo and, finally, a bridge that feels like an entirely new song. And the spectacular "All Nightmare Long" — a thematic sequel of sorts to "Enter Sandman" — combines relentless Master of Puppets guitars with a Black Album-worthy chorus.
Album Title:Death Magnetic Artist | Group:Metallica Label:Vertigo Release date:2008 Genre:Heavy Metal Number of track(s):10 File format:mp3 Total duration:01h:14m:49s:868ms Total size:176.5095 MB
That Was Just Your Life The End Of The Line Broken, Beat & Scarred The Day That Never Comes All Nightmare Long Cyanide The Unforgiven III The Judas Kiss Suicide & Redemption My Apocalypse
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File name:01 That Was Just Your Life.mp3 Duration:7mn 8s Bit rate:320 Kbps Bit rate mode:CBR File size:16.9 MiB Track number:1
File name:02 The End Of The Line.mp3 Duration:7mn 52s Bit rate:320 Kbps Bit rate mode:CBR File size:18.6 MiB Track number:2
File name:03 Broken, Beat & Scarred.mp3 Duration:6mn 25s Bit rate:320 Kbps Bit rate mode:CBR File size:15.2 MiB Track number:3
File name:04 The Day That Never Comes.mp3 Duration:7mn 56s Bit rate:320 Kbps Bit rate mode:CBR File size:18.7 MiB Track number:4
File name:05 All Nightmare Long.mp3 Duration:7mn 57s Bit rate:320 Kbps Bit rate mode:CBR File size:18.7 MiB Track number:5
File name:06 Cyanide.mp3 Duration:6mn 39s Bit rate:320 Kbps Bit rate mode:CBR File size:15.8 MiB Track number:6
File name:07 The Unforgiven III.mp3 Duration:7mn 47s Bit rate:320 Kbps Bit rate mode:CBR File size:18.3 MiB Track number:7
File name:08 The Judas Kiss.mp3 Duration:8mn 1s Bit rate:320 Kbps Bit rate mode:CBR File size:18.9 MiB Track number:8
File name:09 Suicide & Redemption.mp3 Duration:9mn 58s Bit rate:320 Kbps Bit rate mode:CBR File size:23.3 MiB Track number:9
File name:10 My Apocalypse.mp3 Duration:5mn 1s Bit rate:320 Kbps Bit rate mode:CBR File size:12.0 MiB Track number:10