I'm really goddamned tired of people playing the "MANDATORY METALLICA" at night on the radio stations and playing absolute garbage after it. People here play shit like "Low Man's Lyrics," "Whiskey in the Jar," and shit like that. What happened to the time when songs like "Battery," "Harvester of Sorrow," and "Creeping Death" were the actual songs that defined the band.
I'm sick and fucking tired of people referring to Metallica nowadays as the way they are. I believe it is possible to lay part of the blame on them, however. I have no problem with a band changing it's image or it's music, but when you do all that and change everything, it's just not right of you to claim you're just as good as you were back in the olden days.
It just sickens me when I hear people say that Metallica's best album was Load.
Oh, but then you ask them if they've listened to Kill 'Em All or Ride the Lightning and they look at you like you're fucking Tucker Carlson, not knowing what the fuck those are.
What is the true gripe here is when people claim they love a certain band, yet never do the research of actually listening to all of their music, or when people focus on a certain part. Listen. I love Metallica for what they were, and Death Magnetic SEEMS to be heading back in the right direction, however I still have my doubts. What are the odds they hire someone like Bob Cock again who will lead them in the wrong direction?
I understand the band wanted to change their image, but you cannot change what they were. The classics from Justice, Lightning, Kill 'Em, and Puppets will never be topped, but it's in them to do their damned best to try.
I don't know what I just wrote.