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METALLICA
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Metallica might be even more angry now than they were last year when they were recording St. Anger, the band's most brutal, bludgeoning record in years. As a result of their album being leaked over the Internet, Metallica have decided to


unleash their Anger on Thursday instead of the original release date of June 10.

The band's label said the album date was moved because of the "prevalence of sub-standard versions of St. Anger already in circulation."

Various high-profile hip-hop and R&B acts — Eminem, 50 Cent, Nas and Beyoncé Knowles — have pushed the release dates of their records up to fight Internet piracy, but Metallica are the first big rock act to bump their release date forward (see "Metallica Album Preview: Damage Inc. Is Back In Business").

The band's label is unsure whether the leak came from the studio, the record plant or some other means.

"This whole Internet thing is scaring us, man," frontman James Hetfield said in an interview for "mtvICON: Metallica." "What does that mean to us, our future, our career the livelihood of our children? Why are people able to steal things?"

This isn't Metallica's first run-in with Web piracy. The band sued file-sharing service Napster in 2000 after "I Disappear," a song it had written for the "Mission Impossible 2" soundtrack, was leaked to radio (see "Metallica Set Legal Sights On Napster").

"We made a couple of different versions of the song, and we hadn't picked what version we wanted to give them for the film," drummer Lars Ulrich said. "I remember one day I got a call from my manager saying, 'There are a bunch of radio stations playing "Version One" of "I Disappear." How could that get out?' We traced it back to this company called Napster, and [decided] we better go back to them and send them back into the hole that they came out of."

Metallica eventually settled with Napster for an undisclosed sum. However, in the process they were buried in a pile of negative feedback and chastised for being lawsuit-happy and money-grubbing. One reason the criticism was so harsh is because in the process of suing the file-sharing giant, Metallica called out thousands of their fans who were illegally downloading their songs, and the band requested that the kids be booted from the Napster service (see "Metallica's Ulrich Delivers Names To Napster").

"The thing that hurt the most on top of the negative press was the feeling of being alone," Ulrich explained. "It was like, 'OK, we are going to go after this company' and, wow, no one was with us. It was such mind f--- looking over our shoulder and there was no one there. We took the shot and I was not prepared for what came in the wake of it, but I am glad we took the shot."

:rock: i cant wait til st anger comes out

i heard that is it very heavy and maybe heavier than their earlier stuff.. I think they are tired of the critisism that they have gone soft :rock:

James Hetfield questioning what this will "mean to us, our future, our career the livelihood of our children?" is quite possibly the most ludicrous thing I have heard in a long time.

Last time I checked these selfish bastards were over the top rich.

They should be more concerned about their fans who have to shell out $13 for a cd and have made them multi-millionaires.

I know it must be killing their wallets that some people got a preview of their cd.

Boo hoo.

Metallica Make Peace With Digital Downloaders — Sort Of

Band to offer boatload of free material online to fans who purchase St. Anger.

by Jon Wiederhorn
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After suing Internet file-sharing service Napster and contending with the marketing nightmares of digital downloading, Metallica are making peace with the enemy — sort of.

The band has partnered with Seattle DSL Online provider


Speakeasy and developed www.metallicavault.com, a Web site that will contain hours of downloadable live recordings, demos and B-sides for free.

Here's the catch: Fans have to purchase the band's new album, St. Anger, to get a code that allows them access to the site. That should mean increased sales figures for the band, but consumers who buy the disc will get a lot of bang, chug and wallop for their buck. In addition to the 70-plus minute album, St. Anger comes with a DVD of all the songs from the disc being played live in the studio. And the first batch of free material on www.metallicavault.com will feature three full concerts — 66 songs in all.

One downloadable show is from June 17, 1994 at the Orange County Speedway in Middletown, New York, during the "Black Album" tour. Another is from October 6, 1996 at the Birmingham NEC in Birmingham, England, from the Load tour. The final concert is from July 4, 1998 at the Polaris Amphitheater in Columbus, Ohio, from their tour behind Reload. Drummer Lars Ulrich handpicked each of the recordings, as well as many that will be posted on the site in the coming weeks.

"We've always wanted our fans to experience our music online," Ulrich said in a statement. "But up until now, the existing distribution methods have not passed the kind of quality standards our fans have come to expect from us. We want the music that will be accessed on www.metalllicavault.com to be the best of the best available on the Internet."

This report is provided by MTV News

I heard Metallica's latest album on the radio last night. And okay, they haven't "gone soft"--but why the hell did they make themselves into a NU-METAL band??:confused: Oh, I guess for trendiness' sake. No doubt the album is heavy. But--with the exception of James Hetfield's voice, it doesn't sound like Metallica. Where are Kirk Hammett's guitar solos? It's like they abandoned any sort of melody for total riffage--AND ALL DE-TUNED GUITARS, like you hear with Godsmack and Korn and all them guys. Why is it that the whole detuned guitar thing--which was supposed to make bands all sound heavier--all make them sound THE SAME?? Considering how Metallica are all now "businessmen with guitars", I guess this musical move comes as no suprise. Go where the bucks are. Re-invent yourself by becoming what's already current and popular. Commerce over art.:rolleyes:

oh man are u serious? If that's true then that really bites.
What made me really like Metallica was the fact that they sound like no other band I had ever heard! That really blows if they changed their sound like all the other crap bands out there who all sound alike...:(

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Originally posted by MonarC
oh man are u serious? If that's true then that really bites.
What made me really like Metallica was the fact that they sound like no other band I had ever heard! That really blows if they changed their sound like all the other crap bands out there who all sound alike...:(

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You might actually like it, it's not bad, but it's just not all that...Metallica-esque... You know, where it has that definite stamp of originality that's uniquely METALLICA...It's like all that melodic-ness and all those years of Joe Satriani's guitar lessons were tossed down the tubes...It's just sounding like Metallica is jumping on the bandwagon...Give their new album a listen, but be warned...it sounds too much like everything else out there in "metal". It's almost not metal anymore...just this weird alloy.

The dj was raving about it on the radio last night and getting on some caller who didn't share his enthusiasm for it. That's right, though, that 20 years ago Metallica was blowing away the hair metal competition and now....same old, same old....Just like all the other bands who were original with the nu-metal sound.

Damn what a let down... Everyone is buying into this "gotta be like everone else" thing.. I hate it.. I miss the Original bands. Like 311

"Come original you got to come original, all entertainers come oringinal. You got to come original you got to come original all entertainers...." -311 :rock:

What's Up With The Sound On The New Metallica Album?

Producer, band used lo-fi setup and hi-tech editing to create St. Anger.
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by Jon Wiederhorn

Metallica's James Hetfield (Photo: John Shearer)


No other contemporary chart-topping rock album sounds remotely like Metallica's St. Anger. Never mind the whirlwind tempos, multiple rhythm changes and seven-minute songs. What's really unusual are the lo-fi tones and unconventional


constructions.

The drums don't crack, they clang, and cymbals cut out abruptly. There are no guitar solos. Once in a while a guitar lick lags behind the beat, and frontman James Hetfield's vocals occasionally veer off key.

Stranger still, that's exactly the way Metallica and producer Bob Rock wanted it to sound.

"I wanted to do something to shake up radio and the way everything else sounds," said Rock, who helped write the music and lyrics and played basslines on the album. "To me, this album sounds like four guys in a garage getting together and writing rock songs."

The genesis of Metallica's raw new sound had as much to do with art as with anger. Shortly after Metallica hired Rock —, who had worked on their last three studio records, including the pristine, polished Metallica (a.k.a. "the black album") — the producer told drummer Lars Ulrich that he was tired of clean, by-the-book production. He proposed recording in a way that made a statement like some of Ulrich's favorite artists, including Dutch primitivism painter Karel Appel, the Danish experimentalists CoBrA and various groundbreaking jazz musicians. From word one, Lars was on board.

Metallica achieved the primitive sound and schizophrenic vibe of St. Anger by combining old recording technology with cutting-edge editing software. While Rock had previously rigged Lars' kit with multiple modern microphones and dampened the bass drum with pillows, spending as much as a week perfecting a snare sound, this time Rock spent five minutes setting up the drums and recorded the rest of the band with a combination of cheap PA mics and vintage microphones.

With the bare-bones recording equipment in place, Metallica started coming up with riffs together and rocked them out like a group of friends hooking up just to mess around. Once they'd concocted rhythms they liked, they'd combine them and record long jam sessions. Lyrics were written by the entire band moments before a song was recorded, and Hetfield's vocals were recorded in one or two takes to capture the immediacy of the moment, glitches and all.

"There was really no time to get amazing performances out of James," Rock said. "We liked the raw performances. And we didn't do what everyone does and what I've been guilty of for a long time, which is tuning vocals. We just did it, boom, and that was it."

After the basic recordings were done, Metallica tried to add guitar solos. Kirk Hammett recorded a bunch of leads ranging from slow and evocative to lightning-fast and aggressive, but Rock and the band ultimately decided to leave them all out.

"We made a promise to ourselves that we'd only keep stuff that had integrity," Rock said. "We didn't want to make a theatrical statement by adding overdubs. If we added something and it helped the mood or what we were trying to convey, that stayed. But if it distracted from that ... then we killed it. Every time we tried to do a solo, either it dated it slightly or took away from what we were trying to accomplish in some other way. I think we wanted all the aggression to come from the band rather than one player."

Once the band packed up its gear, it was time to unpack the computers. They used the computer program ProTools to reconstruct the songs in sometimes drastically different ways.

"A lot of the songs were done in William Burroughs cut-and-paste fashion," said Rock, referring to a style in which a piece of writing is cut into pieces and reassembled at random. "There are movements in moviemaking and in music where you take technology as an art and you actually abuse it. Some people use ProTools to trick and fool the listener, but we used it more as a creative tool to do something interesting and stretch boundaries.

"Technically, you'll hear cymbals go away and you'll hear bad edits. We wanted to disregard what everybody assumes records should be and throw out all the rules. I've spent 25 years learning how to do it the so-called right way. I didn't want to do that anymore."

This report is provided by MTV News:happyface

I Love Metallica's St. Anger CD. I must have listened to it at least 10 times since my brother got the CD.

Originally posted by MonarC
Damn what a let down... Everyone is buying into this "gotta be like everone else" thing.. I hate it.. I miss the Original bands. Like 311

"Come original you got to come original, all entertainers come oringinal. You got to come original you got to come original all entertainers...." -311 :rock:

Forget Metallica, check out that Mariah siggy....:eyes:

That's interesting about their new album, I like the idea of using visual art as inspiration for music. I guess I've been too much into thinking it was like everything else out there. Maybe I need to hear it again, after all, when I first heard Metallica back in 1986, I was NOT impressed. A year later, they were the greatest thing in the world.:cool:

But I'm wondering, where are Kirk Hammett's gutair solos, then, what does he play on the album?:confused: Traditionally, he's the "solo specialist" on their songs, but what does he do on this album??

Actually, I was quite hesitate to buy this CD because I'm not a big fan of metal. But after buying it, I fell in love right away. I enjoyed the entire album.

last time i went to wal*mart it wasnt there... but im going again tomorrow