What Magnetic?

I've been asked about a million times what my opinion is about Metallica/Death Magnetic/New vs. Old Metallica and a host of "Metallica" related questions and supposed conversations starters revolving around this once mighty band who saw fit to disgust us all with a decade or more of horrible crap and who is now trying to sneak back into the consciousness of "metal heads" with Death Magnetic.

I'm gonna state my opinion and then it's all I'll say regarding the subject as I really didn't think that I'd ever have to discuss this band again except to say "I remember when" or "what the fuck were they thinking" or the ever popular "what if it would have been Lars and not Cliff?".

My opinion is this... I should have no opinion. Sure they're trying, sure to some it's a valiant if not awesome effort on their part. Sure Lars is going to be able to afford some more 6 million dollar paintings because you wanna re-live a by-gone era of has-been music with a bunch of baby's who have life issues and a knack for building up only to break down.

Death Magnetic has already been run straight into the fucking ground. Almost as much as that little picture of Robert and James with the Armani bag. What's funny about that? It's sad is what it is. This band is sad, and all the DM fans, most of which (not all) are the SAME people that have talked the loudest shit about how bad they ended up sucking. Now you're going to promote them into 4 more houses each, stocks in off-shore investments, spoiled wives and ego-centric therapists and life-healers.

With so much other good music in the world, past, present and future, there really is no need for this album. It serves no real purpose other than as a way for the people buying and supporting it to say, "hey, it's ok that you've sucked while along the way laughing and spitting in your fans faces. It's ok to try to re-live the distant past in order to try and erase the recent. It's ok to have built a career on tape trading only to sue your "fans" for doing nothing more than the equivalent in a different format." But that's another and even more run into the ground story.

Have another painting Lars, buy another car James...hire another therapist Metallica, it's on your fans.

(((03)))