Metallica, one of the biggest highest ranked metal band, or at least have been for over 30 years. They formed in Los Angeles, CA in 1981. They have released 9 studio albums, 4 live albums, 11 DVD's, and this is their 6th EP. The band has had a fairly strong line up, excluding their bass player, consisting of James Hetfield on vocals, Lars Ulrich on drums, Kirk Hammett on lead guitar, and since 2003, Robert Trujillo on bass. Beyond Magnetic was released digitally on December 13, 2011 but was released on CD on January 31, 2012. The album was produced by Rick Rubin who also produced their previous full length album Death Magnetic in 2008. The EP was released off of Warner Brothers Records, only has 4 tracks but still is almost a half hour long. The EP did fairly well, peaking at 29 on the US Billboard Top 200. The track listing for the album is 1.Death Train (6:59) 2.Just A Bullet Away (7:12) 3. Hell And Back (6:58) 4.Rebel Of Babylon (8:02). I included the length to show how long all of these songs really are. Most times the longer the song, the more repetitive it becomes, which is exactly what happened on this EP. Most likely because of the repetitiveness and lack of lyrical writing ability on this album I am going to give this EP a
2.8 Out Of 5 Stars
because of the fact that even though I genuinely liked their 2008 release Death Magnetic, and this EP, which was just a collection of songs that didn't make it on to the full length. My favorite song on the EP was Just A Bullet Away because even though it was filled with much repetitive sections, it still featured very strong vocals and amazing guitar solos, which I believe were the best on the 4 track album. You can listen to the song Here. If you are a Metallica fan and haven't either bought the album off of their own website, at best buy or any cd retailers, you can always buy it off of amazon.com using this LINK. This is all I have on Metallica's most recent release, and even though many die hard metal fans most likely wouldn't agree with me on this review, but still
STAY ALTERNATIVE
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