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What do you guys suspect from Metallica's upcoming album? I'm hoping for a return to their original form, but I know I won't get that. If it is similar to Death Magnetic I won't be unhappy, but it'd be great if they came out with one that was even better and more like their 80's stuff. Their demo song, "Lords of Summer," sounded pretty good to me and if that's how the album sounded I would be content. What do you guys hope for or what do you expect?

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Metallica 2015 Album As someone who was around when Metallica were new ( bought Ride the Lightening the year it came out) I can assure you Metallica were spectacular. There was virtually NOTHING like that around. They were head and shoulders above anything back then. Not anymore. However, I am expecting crap James vocals, lazy, sloppy Lars drumming and shitty half-assed 8 minute songs pieced together with insufficient editing. And awful production again. Lords of Summer is awful.

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It seems like ever since Metallica teamed up with Bob Rock and transformed themselves from a slightly progressive Thrash Metal band into simply a radio friendly Hard Rock band, a lot of revisionism has taken place. Purists have seemed to want to write them out of the Metal history books altogether, or diminish the amount of influence that those four albums they released from 1982-1989 have had on the genre as a whole. No no no Metallica was fucking awesome in the eighties. They were making some of the most original and groundbreaking Metal in the genres history. Not many bands can claim to have the creative output that they had during the time period. Of course post 1992 they have had nothing but diminishing returns, and have gone to great lengths to destroy the reputation they built during Thrash's heyday. But they were special once, and no amount of revisionism is going to change that.

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Yeah I agree with you when you say they have done nothing of note since Justice. I am simply saying that trying to diminish the impact they had on the genre because they "sold out" is kind of petty. And by the way the same thing is happening now with Mastodon, since their sound has become slightly more commercial over their past two albums(which I have both disliked).

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I wouldn't hope too much. They're getting more and more commercial each day, so I dont think it will be close even to Death Magnetic, not to mention they early masterpieces. If the rest of the album is going to be like Lords of Summer, it is going to be bullshit.

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