METALLICA - Death Magnetic Out Today, L.A. TImes Review Available
September 11, 2008, 15 years ago
As previously reported, METALLICA's new album Death Magnetic officially hits record store shelves today (September 12th). L.A. Times correspondent Ann Powers has filed a review of the album; an excerpt appears below:
"The band, which first triumphed reforming a bloated heavy-metal scene in the early 1980s, has encountered public resistance every time it has tried to adapt or augment its sound. That's made for a tough quarter-century. The band kept taking risks but eventually lost confidence and wound up in a depression culminating in 2003's miserable St. Anger.Death Magnetic enacts the band's process of recovery, using a tried-and-true method: game therapy. Throughout Death Magnetic, the band presents its music as existing in its own space, uninfluenced by fashion or the news, true only to its own rules and pleasures -- like a game."
Go to this location for the complete review.
Go to the Bravewords.com main page for Death Magnetic reviews from scribes Martin Popoff and David Perri (left hand column).
