Well, they are obviously not their favorite... Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! If you ask me I like their ballads, the rest is crap. I agree with their bassplayer, that going to a shrink was very whimpy thing to do. Just kill yourself or your bandmate if you have a problem, but a shrink!!! Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
There's something about most of their songs that just annoys me. Maybe it's just that they all seem to go on, and on, and on..... Or that they don't seem as up-tempo or well structured as Maiden songs, or to have such good riffs. Basically they bore me, I find myself wanting to fall asleep or change song after 30 seconds or so. Essentially most Metallica songs remind me of Iron Butterflys In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida. :shrug: Although I will concede one or two of their songs are pretty impressive.
I don't want to listen to a band that as soon as I hear them I know who is singing it. Its like they find a formula and stick with it. BORING!
The Cult. Although they seem to be losing it, their new album is horrible. I saw Ian Astbury last year when he fronted The Doors and he was just fabulous. All the metal bands had their glory day. Cream: Sunshine of Your Love. Deep Purple: Smoke on the Water. Iron Butterfly: In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida. Blue Oyster Cult: Secret Treaties. Led Zeppelin: Kashmir. Black Sabbath: Technical Ecstasy. AC/DC: Back in Black. Metallica: Master of Puppets. The Cult: Electric. Robin Trower made his mark and so did Yngvie Malmsteen, Guns 'n Roses, Judas Priest and others. Ozzy even did a brief comeback as a solo act. I think metal is past its prime and the bands that still play it are doing self-parody. Drain STH, Tony Iommi's wife's Swedish goth-metal band, was a classic example and a lot of fun with their power chords and their lyrics about leeches. I guess groups like Korn are carrying the torch and they've found a new direction with rap-metal or what I call infrared-metal because it's all down in the low frequencies. Not much great guitar soloing going on any more these days. Nothing to make an old Sabbath groupie start drooling.
