NEW METALLICA SINGLE!!! The Day That Never Comes!!!

[Porksicle]

Meh... I guess if I ask myself... "Would I care about this if it wasn't a 'Metallica Song'", the answer is pretty much no. It's not good enough to crack my playlist on a normal day, so I'd say...

FAIL

What do I hate about it? First glance would be the drums, but I realized after listening to it a couple times ... it's actually the transitions and all the extra riffs. There's just seems to be unecessary stuff going on in parts, and parts that don't belong.

Listen to some of the epic 7-10 minute songs they've recorded in the past - what made them good was that the transitions made sense. They built up, broke down, breathed, and strangled you. This new song is like... I dunno, like they just threw in some riffs.

For example, the riff at 5:42 just seems... added, not really in-place. It doesn't flow. The riff at 6:12 does the same for me. It just doesn't seem like part of the same song.

I also listened to the other snippets from the website. Excerpt #3 sounds interesting, but the others are kinda' boring. I don't know if it's the drums or what, but something just sounds a little lazy and incomplete to me.

 

[Kelly Lee]

...if people are going to start already then i dont consider them the "Real" Metallica fans..

Dude, are you serious?:

 

[steve21]

I ******* love this song.

I think the last 3 minutes are essential and better then pretty much everything else that any 80's band has made in the past 5-10 years.

 

[BassSurfer]

Dude, are you serious?:

you know what.. i liked St. Anger.. when they played those songs live they were not that bad.. i just hate people who bash them for SA and this ONE song...people are already giving them ****..James will never sound like he once did..i love this song.. it's sick..and as i said on the other forum for this song..metallica has said this is the most mellow song on the record...people who give up hope on the band.. or ANY band are not true fans..thats my opinion for Gods sake.. are you going to argue my personal opinion...its just so immature seeing oh St. Anger sucked etc etc..sure alot of people may think this sure sure..but its just like people take pride in destroying that album..

 

[Yngwie 4String]

St. Anger sucked, not just that song, but the whole album sucked hard in most peoples opinions. Lars and James whine all the friggin time. Lars is the most concieded dude I have ever seen, and thats coming from a Kiss Fan and a fan of Yngie Malmsteen. Lastly Metallica was made famous by the practice of tape sharing. They sued their fans for file sharing, which is the modern form of tape sharing. Yet they played at the DOWNLOAD festival.

They be some money hungry whiney little jerks and James cant sing or work a crowd for crap.

When you first get introduced to metal Metallica is a good band. Then you listen to more metal and realise Metallica is crap.

 

[iamlowsound]

Laughable at best. Seriously, the drums suck, the guitar work doesn't seem to fit half of the time and the one bass riff sounded like it was played out of key. They should just stop making music.

lowsound

 

[heroincredible]

I ******* love this song.

I think the last 3 minutes are essential and better then pretty much everything else that any 80's band has made in the past 5-10 years.

Kreator's Enemy of God would like to have a word with you.

 

[Joe Garage]

Definitely not so hot. It feels like they went digging around in some old scrap pieces of paper from the Black album days looking for ideas.

There where no fast songs or much twin guitars on the black album.
Just mid tempo radio friendly tunes. This sounds much closer to the 80s albums.

 

[ROON]

Hetfield sounds bloody stupid.

Very disappointing. I'll stick to listening to old Metallica.

 

[iamlowsound]

Just listened to it again, the guitar solos SUCKED. There were notes chocked off, notes out of key ect. It sounded like they tried playing faster than they were able to.

lowsound

 

[mike_v_s]

September 12th will hopefully change all the peoples minds who are already beginning this critizizing bs..if people are going to start already then i dont consider them the "Real" Metallica fans..

OK. I can live with out being known as a "real" fan of anything. As others have stated, I'm not impressed. I'll go one further, I was more impressed with St. Anger.

I expect they'll deliver what they promised: some old school Metallica inspired songs. We'll also get the unspoken other half of that promise: it'll sound strained and forced and they'll mix it with Load-style Metallica. Not my thing. In unrelated news, the Toadies have released a new album and I'm sure it's better.

Mike

 

[steamthief]

I've heard this song driving in my car on KROQ three times now, and I really like it. IMHO, Rick Rubin brings out the best in every artist he works with.

 

[rob2966]

Am I the only one who thinks it sounds like a ripoff of "Echo Beach" by Martha and the Muffins

Later
Rob

 

[StanFan]

When you first get introduced to metal Metallica is a good band. Then you listen to more metal and realise Metallica is crap.

Of course Metallica aren't where they used to be, but I listen to lots of metal and would still rank Puppets and Justice as 2 of the best metal albums of all time.

 

[Yngwie 4String]

Master of Puppets and One are very good songs. Ill even give them credit there, but give me SLAYER!

 

[baalroo]

wow, that sucked

 

[Vic Winters]

Sorry, not impressed and I love Metallica. Even Load/Re-Load era. Honestly I think 'St. Anger' was a better single. As bad as the "My life style determines my death style" line was, at least the song flowed musically.

 

[peaveyuser]

lets keep an open mind and hear the whole album, I hope they can do some good.


But yah I think they lost it, they simply cannot regain that energy they had.


Hedfields voice is crap now IMO, thats the first blow.

2nd I dunno but i guess they don't practise as much as before the best musician there now is for sure trujillo.

I think they are proof a metal band can not go mainstream without losing it, the money, the scene all that crap its not going to inspire as much as it did before.

Bands like Anthrax, Overkill, Megadeth and Slayer are still making kick@$$ thrash because I think they still live in the scene, the purely metal scene where all that raw feel goes on.

Metal is about screaming out at society and being different and damn proud of it. Metallica got to deep in the mainstream.

 

[steve21]

flat out... listening to this song just keeps getting funner.

 

[Sneckumhaw]

Hedfields voice is crap now IMO, thats the first blow.

And God knows he was up there with Pavarotti on Kill 'em All