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Metallica “Death Magnetic”

Metallica
Death Magnetic

Genre:Thrash RockFormat:CDTracks:10
Label:Warner Bros RecordsYear:2008

Five years since the release of the laughably bad St. Anger, Man Francisco-based Metallica are back with their ninth full length studio effort entitled Death Magnetic. For months the hype surrounding this album has been building with everyone claiming that Death Magnetic is Metallica’s triumphant return to the sound that made them famous in the 80s. I don’t know what drugs these people were doing, but they’d better share because I sure as shit don’t hear anything remotely close to being as entertaining as anything on Kill ‘Em All, Ride The Lightning, Master Of Puppets, …And Justice For All or even the black album.

Before I get into the music, what the fuck is a “Death Magnetic”? That doesn’t even make any fucking sense. A death magnet makes sense, even magnetic death, while stupid, makes a bit more sense, but Death Magnetic? It’s a good thing these douche bags became rock stars because with that third grade education they sure as shit aren’t going to be sending astronauts into space.

Secondly… what the fuck is up with that album cover? I understand what the concept is supposed to be; a magnetic coffin, but it looks more like a magnetic asshole that’s coated in thick man hair and gaped from vigorous man on man anal pounding. The only thing it’s missing is a gerbil’s head sticking out of the coffin.

Onto the music… I’ve heard a lot of people say that this album is Master Of Puppets part two, to which I can’t help but laugh uncontrollably while trying to subdue my urge to grab them by the throat and throw them through a window. I’ve heard even more people claim that Death Magnetic sounds like a continuation of …And Justice For All, a statement that makes me need to grab my wrist firmly and pull my hand towards my wrist so I don’t backhand them in the mouth so hard that I leave a permanent hand print upside their head.

Here’s what Death Magnetic is really like; the songs are fucking long. Really fucking long, 10 tracks in just short of 75 minutes which means there are a ton of redundancies throughout the album, many of the tracks are really over after about two minutes, but they just go on and on and on ad nauseum.

The production of the release brings the band back to their old sound, with a deeper bass tone, clean higher pitched guitar tones, and a drum sound that actually sounds like drums and not some retard banging on pots and pans like the shit on St. Anger.

The song structures are a mix of material from …And Justice Of All, the black album and Load. The material sounds a lot more powerful than it really is due to the meatier production, but the songs themselves are pretty fucking boring, at no point do I find myself ready to tap my toes, let alone thrash like I used to do to the old material back in my teens. The music is just lifeless and dull, almost as if four millionaires entered a recording studio with the sole purpose of trying to record an old school Metallica album only they’re no longer capable of writing anything even remotely entertaining.

The material on Death Magnetic tends to be simplistic thrash rock in nature with the band rehashing old riffs and trying to pass it off as something new. On every song I find myself thinking “Hey, I remember that riff from Load, hey, that follow-up was from Master Of Puppets, hey, why the fuck isn’t there anything new on here? Couldn’t these washed up has beens at least pay someone to write them a decent riff?”

Fans of early Metallica, especially those who’ve grown to appreciate more extreme forms of metal, aren’t going to be impressed by Death Magnetic, unfortunately Metallica didn’t write this album for us, Death Magnetic was written to bring back the fan base they developed with the black album and in that regard, they’ll succeed. There’s no doubt in my mind that this album will sell millions of copies, the band will line their pockets with more obscene amounts of money and they’ll win tons of Grammys, but, lets face it we all know those awards are a farce, any organization that’ll hand Black Eyed Peas an award for anything other than winning a “Piss Your Pants In Public” contest is a fucking sham.

We all know at least one of these wanna-be metalheads who one day are contentedly jacking off to the latest Clay Aikens album and the next are wandering around sporting a Metallica t-shirt because they heard a song of theirs on the radio. There’s no doubt my fall is going to be filled with seeing douche bag retards trying to impress the ladies by sporting old school Metallica shirts they bought at Hot Topic. At every stop light for the rest of the year I’m going to be forced to listen to some ballless fucktard blaring Death Magnetic on his mom’s mini van stereo as he drives off to school. I already have the desire to punch random strangers in the face because I know they’re going to become born again Metallica fans.

Fuck Metallica, fuck anyone who likes any material they’ve recorded in the past 19 years and fuck any retard who claims that Death Magnetic is a resurgence of old school Metallica. You’re a fucking mindless sheep who’ll agree with any ridiculous statement that the band, and Warner Bros Records, publicity reps are willing to spout forth. I just want to take a dump on your chest, and while doing so telling you it’s a spa treatment and will leave you feeling 10 years younger, because you’ll buy into anything you stupid fucks.

To be fair, Death Magnetic is much better than anything Metallica has recorded in the past 17 years, but saying Death Magnetic is better than the black album, Load or St. Anger is the same as being glad that you shit your pants instead of shitting your bed. You’re still covered in shit no matter what you do, which is exactly how my ears feel after listening to this over hyped piece of shit. I need to go grab a toilet brush and scrub my ears clean now.

This Album Is...
Worthless
A Total Waste Of Time & Money!
Review byTeufel
COMMENTS (197)
  1. doctor_gore wrote:
    February 10, 2009 at 2:00 pm

    hahahaahahahahahahahaahahahahahaahaha this is fun!

  2. David wrote:
    February 12, 2009 at 9:48 pm

    Teufel, your review sucked. Go back to taking it up the ass from your gay lover you mother fucking faggot.

  3. Pedro San Miguel wrote:
    February 25, 2009 at 4:34 pm

    You sir are a musical prophet.
    Metallica jumped the shark long ago. Death Magnetic is a joke, it’s worse than St. Anger, at least that had decent sound quality. Death Magnetic sounds like it’s being played by a phone through a webcam, and the actual musicianship is retarded. How exactly are they going back to their roots? How is it a follow up to Master of Puppets? I’m assuming none of you have actually heard either album, because if you had you really wouldn’t think this.

    And sure, at least the still play their old songs… but oh wait, I forgot, they can’t play. I’m a pretty crap guitarist myself, but fucking lol, Kirk Hammet?
    I’m a hardcore fan of evertyhing pre Load, but if you think Death Magnetic is worth your money you’re retarded, autistic, or maybe you watch KERRANG and SCUZZ too much.

    If you want to listen to good Metallica era music, try Megadeth’s new album. They’re ahead of Metallica for once, and guess what, Dave hasn’t even yet bragged about it yet. Metallica got MacPwnd.

  4. Pedro San Miguel wrote:
    February 26, 2009 at 9:51 am

    Furthermore, to the idiot that said Iron Maiden haven’t returned to their former glory either, you’re a mentalist. Iron Maiden continues to make music that is as good as it has always been, when they play live it sounds better each time, and I can’t think of a single album that is bad. Two were weaker, but not bad, certainly not like Death Magnetic, and Iron Maiden proved that could redeem themselves when Bruce came back.

    Also, someone said his father was a great footballer at 30, but can barely walk now that he is 40, and he still respects him. That’s fine, I agree. But your father isn’t trying out for Arsenal is he? He’s not trying to play in the world cup is he? Metallica know the songs they were writing were mediocre crap, and not only did they release it, but they advertised it as the best thing since vagina. Were they trying their best? that still doesn’t make this a good album, it may have been a good effort (which I doubt, I KNOW Metallica are better than this grey garbage) but it was still a compilation of meta-musical masturbation. In other words, it sounds like a 70 hour long aimless jam.

  5. al wrote:
    April 8, 2009 at 1:39 am

    master of puppters will never be ride the lightning

  6. robert edwards wrote:
    April 18, 2009 at 2:23 am

    wow.did any of the members of metallica fuck your mother?you sounded like dave mustaine there.rub your dick on the wall,the jealousy might wear off.

  7. Pedro San Miguel wrote:
    April 21, 2009 at 9:53 am

    Oh yes Robert, the old Metallica fan boy comeback: “You say something bad about Metallica, THAT MEANS YOU’RE DAVE MUSTAINE. YOU’RE BITTER. YOU’RE DAVE MUSTAINE. ANYONE THAT DOESN’T SUCK METALLICA’S DICK IS DAVE MUSTAINE”

    Clearly you didn’t read what I wrote. I love Metallica. I was raised on Metallica. But their latest album was very bad, even worse than St Anger. Do I have to like EVERYTHING Metallica does? I’m a human being, I have an opinion, and my opinion is that Death Magnetic is really, really shit.

    You’re using the other fan boy argument: “You criticise Metallica, THAT MEANS YOU’RE JEALOUS. YOU ARE SO JEALOUS. YOU ARE JEALOUS OF METALLICA, BECAUSE YOU DON’T AUTOMATICALLY LIKE EVERYTHING THEY TOUCH, CREATE, AND SHIT.”

    Grow the fuck up fan boy. I’m a true Metallica fan. And as a true Metallica fan, I feel I have the duty to state my opinion of my favourite band’s latest effort: IT’S REALLY BAD. And maybe that is just opinion, yes, I can understand some people (stupid people) like Death Magnetic. And they’re in their full right to enjoy it. But please, don’t ever compare it to Master of Puppets, Ride the Lightning or Kill ‘em all. They sound nothing alike, they don’t share a single musical characteristic. Regardless if Death Magnetic is good or not, it is certainly NOT thrash metal, and NOT a follow up to Master of Puppets.

    And seriously, if you start the Dave Mustaine vs Metallica argument once more, you will prove the true extent of your homosexuality.
    I love both bands. Currently, Megadeth is still playing awesome thrash metal. Metallica used to play awesome thrash metal, but only plays a ghost of that at the moment. They’re both under constant fire from their respective fan boys.
    The fact that you bring up Dave Mustaine as soon as someone critices Metallica, shows that YOU are the jealous faggot, who needs to rub his dick, not against a wall, but inside a woman. Maybe then you’ll grow the fuck up, and realise music is more than “OH MY GAWD MY FAVOURITE BAND JUST RELEASED AN ALBUM AND I LOVE IT EVEN THOUGH I HAVEN’T HEARD IT YET AND IF ANYONE OUT THERE DOESN’T THINK IT IS THE BEST THING IN THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE THEN I WILL CALL THEM JEALOUS AND MAKE A MUM JOKE FOLLOWED BY A DICK JOKE.”

    PS. Fuck you.

  8. robert edwards wrote:
    April 22, 2009 at 5:46 pm

    it wasn’t meant for you.it was for teufuck’s review

  9. Pedro San Miguel wrote:
    April 23, 2009 at 7:45 am

    In any case, you’re still an idiot.

  10. razorback wrote:
    April 25, 2009 at 8:15 am

    I was expecting pedro’s reply to be more of,”damn!i thought i was the asshole you were talking about.Turned out i wasn’t the only one.sorry”.And worse,got the guts to call you an idiot,when it was so obvious that he was the one who deserves that title.Oh,now i get it.Maybe it was his mom that was fucked by a member of metallica.Or maybe the 4 of them.Calling metallica,pedro is your bastard son.Pedro,i salute you.You are the only brainless creature in the entire universe who thinks that st. anger was better than death magnetic.I will pray that God will give you the brain that you need very badly,and beg the tallica boys to recognize their retarded bastard son,and let dave mustaine be your godfather.

  11. Pedro San Miguel wrote:
    April 27, 2009 at 7:09 am

    Maybe you didn’t read the review, nor the comments before mine. Had you, you would realise I’m far from the only one who thinks Death Magnetic is even worse than St Anger. You called me brainless a few times, but it seems like I can use correct grammar and punctuation while you can’t even press shift and ‘I’ at the samte time. By the way, brainless means without a brain, I don’t think you knew that. By calling me brainless, you’re trying to imply I am not as smart as you, but your literacy says otherwise. Of course, someone that doesn’t know how to correctly use commas and full stops can’t be expected to know the difference between good and bad music, so I don’t blame you for liking this shit. However, you don’t actually like it, I don’t beleive you’re that dumb. What I beleive is you’re just another Metallica fan boy that will lick their balls no matter what they produce. And if someone out there critizes their latest work, you go on a crusade to defend them.

    Anyway, here is what I got from your comment:
    “You are the true idiot because I was expecting you to be an idiot but it turns out the real idiot was you, is the idiot. Oh yeah, Metallica fucked your mum. Or even better, maybe all FOUR fucked your mum. You’re stupid because you don’t like the same music as me. I think your opinion is unique (even though I didn’t bother checking) and so you must be really, really stupid. I don’t know how to spell. I hope ‘Tallica (See how metal I am? I took out the Me) don’t hate you. Oh yeah, Dave Mustaine is a pussy, lol.”

    You’ve successfuly completed the Metallica fanboy’s argument formulae: You’re stupid + Members of Metallica had sex with your relatives + Dave Mustaine is stupid + You’re stupid + You must be really jealous, just like Dave Mustaine x I actually have no self opinion and if I had listened to Death Magnetic and Metallica’s name hadn’t been on the album cover I would have hated it.

    As a real Metallica fan, I urge you to go and listen to Megadeth.

  12. Pedro San Miguel wrote:
    April 27, 2009 at 7:12 am

    Maybe you didn’t read the review, nor the comments before mine. Had you, you would realize I’m far from the only one who thinks Death Magnetic is even worse than St Anger. You called me brainless a few times, but it seems like I can use correct grammar and punctuation while you can’t even press shift and ‘I’ at the same time. By the way, brainless means without a brain, I don’t think you knew that. By calling me brainless, you’re trying to imply I am not as smart as you, but your literacy says otherwise. Of course, someone that doesn’t know how to correctly use commas and full stops can’t be expected to know the difference between good and bad music, so I don’t blame you for liking this shit. However, you don’t actually like it; I don’t believe you’re that dumb. What I believe is you’re just another Metallica fan boy who will lick their balls no matter what they produce. And if someone out there criticizes their latest work, you go on a crusade to defend them.

    Anyway, here is what I got from your comment:
    “You are the true idiot because I was expecting you to be an idiot but it turns out the real idiot was you, is the idiot. Oh yeah, Metallica fucked your mum. Or maybe all FOUR fucked your mum. You’re stupid because you don’t like the same music as me. I think your opinion is unique (even though I didn’t bother checking) and so you must be really, really stupid. I don’t know how to spell. I hope ‘Tallica (See how metal I am? I took out the Me) don’t hate you. Oh yeah, Dave Mustaine is a pussy, lol.”

    You’ve successfuly completed the Metallica fanboy’s argument formulae: You’re stupid + Members of Metallica had sex with your relatives + Dave Mustaine is stupid + You’re stupid + You must be really jealous, just like Dave Mustaine x I actually have no self opinion and if I had listened to Death Magnetic and Metallica’s name hadn’t been on the album cover I would have hated it.

    As a real Metallica fan, I urge you to go and listen to Megadeth.

  13. Dysenteric wrote:
    May 23, 2009 at 6:30 am

    …any organization that’ll hand Black Eyed Peas an award for anything other than winning a “Piss Your Pants In Public” contest is a fucking sham.
    I was skim reading through old reviews to pass the time today, and I’ve only just remembered how great this line was.

  14. Fuck you Pedro San Miguel wrote:
    June 5, 2009 at 5:11 pm

    Yes, I totally agree, Pedro San Miguel. I, too “BELEIVE” he’s dumb for liking Death Magnetic and that he can’t sue the “SAMTE” grammar and punctuation as you. You’re fucking awesome.
    Not only did you fuck your post up in which you go on a parade about how you’re superior because your “grammar and punctuation” is somehow better, you’re even retarded enough to post a second version, this time the errors removed.
    This action made you look like an even bigger fucking idiot than I already thought you were. You need to get over your fucking self and get your dad’s dick out of retarded ass, you goddamn piece of pathetic shit.

    You’ve successfully completed the fucking retard’s argument formula: I can use correct grammar and punctuation but I still fail to do so + you like to lick Metallica’s balls just because you like Death Magnetic + I’m a real Metallica fan because I think Megadeth is better + I’m a fucking retard and I don’t think before I post + now I’m gonna continue eavesdropping on my middle-aged mother getting fucked up the ass by flaccid cocks and attempt to practice many masturbatory arts but fail in the process because I cannot find my penis.

    Go jump off a fucking cliff, you fucking faggot.

  15. Pedro San Miguel wrote:
    June 13, 2009 at 6:32 am

    Unlike you faggots, I don’t use Word to correct my typos because I don’t own it; I went to school instead.
    Beleive and samte aren’t spelling errors, they are in fact typos. I’m typing on a keyboard.
    Perhaps YOU should run your typing through Microsoft Word.
    ‘evesdropping’
    ‘gonna’
    Those are spelling mistakes.
    Why did I post twice? Because I had accidently clicked on ’submit comment’ before proof reading it. Because I am human, I might have still missed a few typing errors the second time round, but anyone with any common sense can figure out they are typing errors, and not spelling mistakes.
    I would have taken you seriously if you had missed out the ‘now I’m gonna continue eavesdropping on my middle-aged mother getting fucked up the ass by flaccid cocks and attempt to practice many masturbatory arts but fail in the process because I cannot find my penis.’ part.
    Now I know you’re just another 13 year old who can afford Microsoft office, and bases his arguments on letting the opponent know that he or she engages in questionable sex acts with his or her relatives.

    Maybe instead of calling me a faggot, you should try to answer back some of my previous points. This is about music, after all, and not about me evesdropping on my middle-aged mother.
    And by the way, if you had ever engaged in sexual activities yourself, or if you knew what flaccid means, you would know fucking someone in the ass with a flaccid cock is impossible.

    You’re very good at insulting people over the internet, but you’re not very good at defending Death Magnetic. Anyone else looking at this might think all Metallica fans are rude idiots such as yourself, which fortunately is not the case.

  16. Anonymous wrote:
    June 13, 2009 at 6:34 am

    Dear Razorback,

    Salutations, good sir. Please excuse the intrusion but I could not go without alerting you that via friendly hearsay it has subtly come to my attention that your peeps are of the opinion that you are one who enjoys a good measure of garrulousness, but don’t often achieve the intended impact.
    Ergo, and again I pray you excuse my presumptuousness, but I will take the liberty of suggesting the replacement of your agglomeration of assorted audio compact-discs with a glossary consisting of synonyms and grammatical syntaxes for your referential needs and/or pleasure, perchance an event requiring prolix dialog should arise.
    In other words:
    Your argument sucks balls because you don’t know how to write. Maybe you should stop listening to Death Magnetic and start learning English. Pussy.

  17. Fuck you Pedro San Miguel wrote:
    June 14, 2009 at 12:02 pm

    I’m actually 16 years old, you brainless fuckface. I can afford Microsoft Office but that doesn’t mean I fucking use it to check my spelling, cocksucker. And get your fucking facts straight, eavesdropping is spelled correctly, moron.
    Just for the record, I wasn’t defending Death Magnetic, dickhead, I was telling the world how much of a cock loving douchebag you are.
    I like all Metallica albums, even Death Magnetic. I can’t see why you people hate it so much, but I’m not gonna be a bitch about it because you can have your own fucking opinion.

    P.S. Getting fucked up the ass by a flaccid cock is possible. Ask your mom.

  18. Pedro San Miguel wrote:
    June 15, 2009 at 2:36 am

    You wrote evesdropping the first time, not eavesdropping. Evesdropping is not correct spelling.
    My excuses, I see you are not a thirteen year old that can’t hold his own in an argument without swearing and calling the opponent gay. I now know you are in fact a SIXTEEN year old that can’t hold his own in an argument without coming up with “you’re gay lol”.

    If you want to share your opinion like an adult, then people will take you seriously. If you’re just going to go around writing every swearword you remember from south park, then people will deal with you like the troll you are.

    Go and find out how sex works.

  19. Pedro San Miguel wrote:
    June 15, 2009 at 2:37 am

    P.S:
    You ARE being a little angry bitch about it.

  20. Pedro San Miguel wrote:
    June 15, 2009 at 3:36 pm

    If it makes you feel better, the reviewer is an asshole. I may not like Death Magnetic, but the reviewer’s reasons for not liking Death Magnetic are neither musical nor good.

  21. Fuck you Pedro San Miguel wrote:
    June 19, 2009 at 8:41 am

    I didn’t misspell eavesdropping in the first post, you fucking shithead. Use your fucking eyes and reread it before you start talking, asshole.
    I’m not being a bitch about Death Magnetic, I’m begin a bitch because you’re acting like some kind of superior elitist, so fuck you, cocksucker.

  22. Baroness wrote:
    June 26, 2009 at 7:05 pm

    omg faggots lolol

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