Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0602517737266 Label: Mercury Records Manufacturer: Mercury Records Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Mercury Records Release Date: September 12, 2008 Running Time: 75 minutes Sales Rank: 461 Studio: Mercury Records
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Rating: - Great Music Ruined By Bad Sound Quality!!!
I don't want to write in depth about the music on this album (maybe Matallica's best for 20 years) because you won't be able to fully appreciate it because of the truly shocking and utterly appalling sound quality of this CD. Why? Well, if you haven't heard already, the mixing/mastering engineer responsible for this album used extreme DYNAMIC RANGE COMPRESSION on this music in a misguided attempt to make it sound "louder". The result is a CD that is virtually unlistenable due to distortion and clipping. ... Read More
Rating: - Excellent album from a yet again excellent band.
This album is packed fun of track after track of excellent songs. Taking us back to when Metallica realy were a thrash metal band, but combining their old sound with their new massively over distorted guitar and hetfields now famous gravelly voice. This combination of old school thrash metal and their more recent rock has made for very enjoyable listening to everyone from the most hardcore metallica fan to anyone who has (somehow) never even heard of them. The album is raw and underproduced which lead to ... Read More
Rating: - Awesome
This CD is awesome and I can't see why anyone thinks it is bad. Cyanide, All Nightmare Long and The Day That Never Comes are my favourites. It was Kerrang's album of the year as well so it must be good.
Rock on!!
Rating: - metallica suck
pathetic as usualy from the most over rated band in history
this one scores a great big 0 outta 10
Rating: - Whats the problem?!
Heard so many bad things about this album, like the production etc, the sound being too loud etc, but after buying it the other day and listening to it all the way through i find myself questioning wether i listened to the same record as all those people?!.
There is nothing wrong with the production or sound, in my opinion its very clear and well produced, each song sounds as its supposed to, i mean what are you expecting a metallica album to sound like exactly with all the moaning about the ... Read More
- Great Music Ruined By Bad Sound Quality!!!
- Excellent album from a yet again excellent band.