Review for Metallica's album Death Magnetic

The front cover of the CD



This album is Metallica's tenth studio album and by that it's the latest one. If you haven't heard of Metallica, let me tell you a bit about them. Metallica was formed by James Hetfield (vocals, rhythm guitar) and Lars Ulrich (drums) in the late 1981. They were a garage band first but quickly they became very popular and famous. The members of the band are: Kirk Hammett (lead guitar, my personal idol), James Hetfield (vocals, rhythm guitar), Lars Ulrich (drums) and Robert Trujillo (bass). The bassist of the band has been changed after the original bassist Cliff Burton (a god of bass) died in an car accident when they were touring. Metallica almost broke, but they decided to continue and they searched for a new bassist, Jason Newsted, who after some years leaved the band.After Jason left they made auditions for a new bassist and thats when Robert Trujillo came to band. Now they are making tours and I heard some rumors that they are going to make a new album (I can't wait for that!). So now you know at least something about the band and I can continue making this review.


First of all I think that this is one of the best albums they have ever made and it is original Metallica style at it's best. The song list is here:

1. "That Was Just Your Life" – 7:08
2. "The End of the Line" – 7:52
3. "Broken, Beat & Scarred" – 6:25
4. "The Day That Never Comes" – 7:56
5. "All Nightmare Long" – 7:58
6. "Cyanide" – 6:40
7. "The Unforgiven III" – 7:47
8. "The Judas Kiss" – 8:01
9. "Suicide & Redemption" (Instrumental) – 9:58
10. "My Apocalypse" – 5:01

As you can see the songs are quite long, and that's what makes it Metallica. Metallica's second latest album St.Anger was criticized about the style that was away from Metallica's earlier styles, in example they had no guitar solos. They have had to notice that because Death Magnetic was like they came back to their roots and started again as the Metallica they were in the beginning. The lyrics on the album are quite interesting, some of them discuss about death and some discuss about being addicted to something. Also the lyrics are on some songs very fast and I keep thinking about how is it possible to James to sing so fast and play guitar at the same time.

In conclusion I say that it is one of the best albums ever made from one of the best bands ever. I'd rate it 5 out of 5 stars (Y)


And for the last words I say that here is one song from the album, it has lyrics on it so for fun try singing as fast
as James does :D (BTW this is my favorite song on the album it's called That was just your life) So enjoy!