Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0602517737280
Format: Box set
Label: Mercury Records
Manufacturer: Mercury Records
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Mercury Records
Release Date: September 12, 2008
Running Time: 75 minutes
Studio: Mercury Records

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Disc 1:

1. That Was Just Your Life
2. The End Of The Line
3. Broken, Beat & Scarred
4. The Day That Never Comes
5. All Nightmare Long
6. Cyanide
7. The Unforgiven III
8. The Judas Kiss
9. Suicide & Redemption
10. My Apocalypse

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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




Rating: - Ace
I'm not much given to hyperbole and "ace" is not a word I've used much since I was 14, twenty years ago, but then I haven't enjoyed an album this much since 1988 either. Certainly not one by Metallica. Death Magnetic, however, is just...ace.

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Rating: - Metallica play it safe
On first hearing this album I was happy to hear Metallica having a good proper strong thrash sound again after the sludge that was St Anger.

I don't think the mastering is an issue, plenty of great albums are badly produced(Iggy & the Stooges-Raw Power, The Smiths-The Queen is dead) a good album will shine through.

Its dissapointing that they havent continued evolving. Metallica had re-invented themselves in sound and in image with Load, as much as Ride the Lightning is ... Read More

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Rating: - preparing for the backlash
im gonna get some fury for this one..................but chinese democracy is a million times better buy that..ha ha ha ha ha :)

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Rating: - The Kings Of Metal Are Back
This was probably Metallica's last chance to make a record that would hang to the fanatical loyalty of their dwindling fanbase. Their 1990s output, while for the most part pretty good, took them in a direction that your average headbanger didn't want to go in, and 2003's disastrous St Anger and the accompanying documentary Some Kind of Monster should by rights have been the end.

This is Metallica though and they're not going down without a fight. Death Magnetic has got the thrash riffs ... Read More

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Rating: - The masters return...
The best album since the black album, Metallica truly become the masters of metal once again!

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