Where's the friggin' bass?

[Boris Godunov]

Where's the friggin' bass?

[Sirotnikov]

I agree.

The singing is quite bad. Out of tune even for James which makes out-of-tune an art form.

The drums are lousy, and the general mixing and mastering is quite bad. The recording sounds all too... amateurish.

The bass isn't very good. It's there but not there.

[Ecthy]

I see there's improvement there

You haven't got rid of that Faboba style though

[The Templar]

Metallica? Don't they sue their fans?

[Caligastia]

Haven't heard any of the new songs...are they very different from the songs on Load and Reload?

[Dis]

I wouldn't say very different, but they are different.

I'm not sure if they wanted to record it so crappy to make it seem more "real" and "raw" or they just were just stupid. I don't listen to Metallica for that sort of sound. I'd listen to Nirvana, or some punk band for that.

[Ecthy]

those new songs were quite boring on live show

[Dis]

well I went ahead and bought the album. Hey, I'm a diehard Metallica fan- I knew it was going to happen sooner or later.

what the kicker was for me was the fact they proved a DVD, and they provide a link to the Metallica Vault where you can download almost 100 hours (or is it minutes?) of music (mostly live from what I can tell).

In any case, when played in my pickup with my amplified boosted truck speakers behind the seats the bass does sound halfway decent. I still don't like the sound quality that much. I'm not sure if they intended on that sound. Maybe they wanted it to sound more raw. And I'm beginning to think the problem isn't the bass guitar, but the drums. Sometimes the drums sound like they are coming from a tin can.

I will still write Metallica an e-mail and ask them to rerecord the album with Rob Trujillo at bass .

[Dis]

anyways, even though I felt like the sound quality could be better, I am happy this is a heavy album. Not as heavy as their old stuff, but definately better than crap on Reload and that I Disappear song.

[Lorizael]

The album is missing long guitar solos. And the individual songs are also missing a certain distinctiveness. It's good, but not as good as previous albums. You get used to the odd sound quality eventually.

[monolith94]

They've always been crap.