Death Magnetic is Kinda OK I Guess
I mean, if you turn it up real loud it starts to sound like metal, but those sampled drums at that volume sound really crappy, and the songs just sorta sit there, but if you don’t play it real loud it sounds overproduced and pop, unless you turn the bass way up; with the bass way up at loud volumes the drum machine or I guess that’s actually a triggered drum but anyway it thumps pretty well (except of course that it keeps getting louder and softer because of the crazy compression on the album to make it sound “hot” for the radio), so in the final analysis, I would say Metallica’s new “no this time it’ll sound like a Metallica album, srsly we promise” album Death Magnetic makes decent background music, but I wouldn’t just sit and listen to it unless I was sedated or something.
