Archive for September, 2008Album Review: Metallica, Death Magnetic, 9/12/08Imagine this: shortly after …And Justice For All, Metallica is kidnapped and put in to a cryogenic warehouse. While in the freeze, another band claiming to be Metallica puts out a few albums, and Jason Newstead calls it a day. Now picture the frozen band thawing out, killing the faux-Metallica, and putting out a crushing new album. You can stop pretending. As I had written previously, this album seriously 
The Death of MetallicaWith the release of Metallica’s new album, Death Magnetic, looming, let us reflect upon their career. Actually, this album seriously is going to make or break them. Once a band hits that peak of creativity and age, there is almost no turning back the hands of time. For Metallica, The Black Album was the last hurrah to their old ways and a sign of change coming. Load and ReLoad sounded like a step in a new direction for
Album Review: Toadies – No Deliverance – Released 8/19/08Fans of Tool and the Toadies know what it means to wait. Nothing will test dedication to a band better than waiting 5-7 years between albums to see if a band is still important. With their third album in 14 years, the Toadies return with No Deliverance. Picking up where Hell Below/Start Above left off in 2001, this is a straight forward rock album. You won’t find that hint of southern Gospel that the previous two albums held, no sir, but you can feel
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