Fred Oliver - Legend
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Death Magnetic
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Much better than St Anger (not difficult given that the sound I made the last time I farted was better to listen to than St Anger).
Fred Oliver - Legend
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and load and reload, this album rocks!!! hard!!
Fred Oliver - Legend
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"suicide, i'v allready died"
tinx
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Been on my ipod for a couple of weeks and its a good album, not their best but the best they have done in a fair few years.
keaton
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- Nov 18, 2004
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From the Guardian
Audiophile fans of Metallica shouldn't bother buying copies of their new album, Death Magnetic. According to one analyst, the record sounds better in the Guitar Hero video game.
"On purchasing our CD ... we gave the disc a spin and couldn't help wondering if our office headphones were faulty as the kick and snare drum seemed to be audibly clipping, along with some of the palm-muted guitar parts," wrote Chris Vinnecombe, guitar editor of music-making website MusicRadar.
The sound issues are a result of the "loudness war" - an ongoing industry effort to make recordings as loud as possible, so that on cursory listens tracks leap forcefully from the speakers. While any album can just have its volume turned up on your stereo, records like Death Magnetic have their audio compressed, making them inherently louder at the expense of dynamic range and sound quality.
The CD version of Death Magnetic takes this to an extreme, pushing the compression past the point of distortion. The version used on the Guitar Hero videogame, where players can solo along with James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett, has been mixed differently - with far better dynamic range. The videogame version of the record was made available last week, as an $18 (£9) download.
Mastering engineer Ian Shepherd's analysis of the two versions - shown as graphical waveforms - makes the CD version's hyper-compression acutely visible.
While there is no official response from the famously cantankerous Metallica camp, the engineer who mastered Death Magnetic is apparently as frustrated as the fans.
"I'm certainly sympathetic to your reaction," said Ted Jensen, head engineer at Sterling Sound, quoted on the Metallica forum. "I get to slam my head against that brick wall every day. In this case, the mixes were already brick-walled before they arrived at my place. Suffice to say I would never be pushed to overdrive things as far as they are here."
"Believe me I'm not proud to be associated with this one, and we can only hope that some good will come from this in some form of backlash against volume above all else."
Audiophile fans of Metallica shouldn't bother buying copies of their new album, Death Magnetic. According to one analyst, the record sounds better in the Guitar Hero video game.
"On purchasing our CD ... we gave the disc a spin and couldn't help wondering if our office headphones were faulty as the kick and snare drum seemed to be audibly clipping, along with some of the palm-muted guitar parts," wrote Chris Vinnecombe, guitar editor of music-making website MusicRadar.
The sound issues are a result of the "loudness war" - an ongoing industry effort to make recordings as loud as possible, so that on cursory listens tracks leap forcefully from the speakers. While any album can just have its volume turned up on your stereo, records like Death Magnetic have their audio compressed, making them inherently louder at the expense of dynamic range and sound quality.
The CD version of Death Magnetic takes this to an extreme, pushing the compression past the point of distortion. The version used on the Guitar Hero videogame, where players can solo along with James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett, has been mixed differently - with far better dynamic range. The videogame version of the record was made available last week, as an $18 (£9) download.
Mastering engineer Ian Shepherd's analysis of the two versions - shown as graphical waveforms - makes the CD version's hyper-compression acutely visible.
While there is no official response from the famously cantankerous Metallica camp, the engineer who mastered Death Magnetic is apparently as frustrated as the fans.
"I'm certainly sympathetic to your reaction," said Ted Jensen, head engineer at Sterling Sound, quoted on the Metallica forum. "I get to slam my head against that brick wall every day. In this case, the mixes were already brick-walled before they arrived at my place. Suffice to say I would never be pushed to overdrive things as far as they are here."
"Believe me I'm not proud to be associated with this one, and we can only hope that some good will come from this in some form of backlash against volume above all else."
Got it, but not a fan to be honest.
Saw them play Cyanide live at Reading and on Jools Holland last night playing The Day That Never Came and the songs just don't compare live or on album to the likes of Creeping Death, Master of Puppets, Harvester of Sorrow, etc.....
Saw them play Cyanide live at Reading and on Jools Holland last night playing The Day That Never Came and the songs just don't compare live or on album to the likes of Creeping Death, Master of Puppets, Harvester of Sorrow, etc.....
bobbab5
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Their best album since And Justice for All.
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Fred Oliver - Legend
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i actually wondered what that was, on track 4 i think (the day that never comes), was gonna take it back as i thought my cd was faulty.
Walkers Cajun Squirrel
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- Mar 13, 2008
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Great album.
D'Angelo Saxon
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Is that the opposite of Life Aquatic?
I'll be purchasing it this weekend. I'm really looking forward to it.
..just bought it, nice art work, currently loading it into my ipod and will listen to it for the first time whilst running. Cant wait.
Yes, its quality.
Monkster
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Try before you buy....the album is streaming for free on the website....
Superphil
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If you register on their website you can download loads of recordings of their past tour shows, going back to '82 (no doubt there will be someone on here who saw them in '81
and will tell us how much better they were then)You can really get a feel for what they were like compared to now. Quite different in many ways, difficult to compare their albums, they seem to move on each time. Having seen them a fair few times I think I actually prefer the current sound they make, fuller, more polished, but to hear a recording from the early 80s, wow, how fast?