| Ive noticed that with the metallica album as they mention, as with similar styles.
I was struggling to think of a more familiar example until I thought about horn section hits.
I was thinking that listening to some renaud garcia albums the other day. While the bass drums and guitar sound natural, the horn section hits sounded very compressed and fake, and disrupted the feel for me once I started dwelling on it.
Understandably, metal is rather a different story. Drums are either hit or dont hit, guitars are either off or 11.
Bass is somewhere in the mix with 2000W struggling to be heard. | 
