Metal Fans Only Now Realizing Metallica Is Too Loud
Feelings of St. Anger, Denial
 


Do you think it's sad for the first wave of Lars Ulrich fans to realize, twenty years later, that they've become their parents as they listen to Metallica's 9th studio album and declare it too loud? It's like one of those key markers, along with a receding hairline and a paunchy stomach protruding from your Master of Puppets concert tee, that you might be getting a little too old to worship the same band that you idolized in high school.

Not to worry, your mid-life crisis is shared across the nation, where even the most die-hard Metallicites are calling the newest album, Death Magnetic, too sonically challenging. "Where there's no quiet, there can be no loud," declares a Minnesota electronic music teacher.

But in an increasingly noise-oriented market, where once marketable bands now compete with 14-year olds screaming into a mic on MySpace, bigger sound does equal bigger audience, to some extent. Still, the sense that this is a existential debate for die-hard Metallica fans remains apparent in one perfectly encapsulated sentence: "Thousands have signed an online petition urging the band to re-mix the album and release it again."

Dude, a petition? Real Metallica fans would have burned the Internet to the ground decades ago.

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No. 1 · Brandy

Metallica is never to loud if you think its to loud your to old! Do you remember Kill em all it was super loud and one of thier best albums. I love the new album and I don't think they should change a thing about it. It is perfect from start to finish!

Posted: Sep 25, 2008 at 10:28 am · @Reply · [Flag?]
No. 2 · Astro Travellin

No one is complaing that it's too loud. Please see this article to understand where the complaint arises from.

http://blog.wired.com/music/20.....licas.html

Posted: Sep 25, 2008 at 12:06 pm · @Reply · [Flag?]
No. 3 · Pigchop

The record is not to loud in the 'turn that damn crap down' sense. This is all about the zealous use of compression in the mixing of the music. Please look to the Metallica website in the forums section. There are a huge number of complaints there. As well, many websites are rife with Metallica fans damning the horrible sound quality of otherwise great songs.

Posted: Sep 25, 2008 at 12:14 pm · @Reply · [Flag?]
No. 4 · Pigchop

There is a petition with over 11,000 signatures as of this writing.

It is here: http://www.gopetition.co.uk/pe.....netic.html

Posted: Sep 25, 2008 at 12:17 pm · @Reply · [Flag?]
No. 5 · swebbit

If they have to remix something, let it be Justice! Thats may favorite album, but could really use some bass! :)

Posted: Sep 25, 2008 at 5:16 pm · @Reply · [Flag?]
No. 6 · chris

you people bitch about everything. its pathetic.

Posted: Sep 25, 2008 at 6:03 pm · @Reply · [Flag?]
No. 7 · Eden

How about they just scrap what's left of their career and go away? Metallica was good up to the Black album. Everything after that has been crap. Not only that, they are whiny assholes.

It's not too loud, it's just crap.

Posted: Sep 25, 2008 at 11:33 pm · @Reply · [Flag?]
No. 8 · Bovey Raphaël

If you care about :

- Metallica

- How Death Magnetic sounds

- Music in general

Then please sign the petition :

http://www.gopetition.com/peti...../sign.html

Posted: Sep 26, 2008 at 6:14 pm · @Reply · [Flag?]
No. 9 · coverdale_v

There is not about loudness. We are talking about sound clarity.

Posted: Oct 16, 2008 at 10:37 pm · @Reply · [Flag?]
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