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Generally favorable reviews- based on 715 Ratings
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Positive: 578 out of 715
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Mixed: 58 out of 715
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Negative: 79 out of 715
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MarcF.Sep 11, 2008Now they finally are using more Dynamics, Key/Time Changes, different Rythms, tempos, and style that balances of what Music real is at a professional Level 6. Don't get me wrong I love their old Music, but the today is more complete. This is a Masterpiece Album!! The CD should have a Label: WARNING: Songs are highly addicting, please listen at your own risk!!
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Dec 8, 2011Although not the best Metallica album it's at least better than everything else after the black album
Think as if Master of Puppets and And Justice For All... had a baby, this is it. -
Oct 11, 2012
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[Anonymous]Sep 11, 2008
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JasonB.Sep 11, 2008Brilliant return to form.
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JohnN.Sep 11, 2008Best Metallica Album in 20 years!
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Aug 18, 20101981-2003. R.I.P Metallica....2008: Metallica has spoken and will live on!! Yes, Metallica fans, Metallica is back! Better than ever! Songs heavier than ever, and more meaning. Only problem is that their songs in this album were depressing. But besides the depressing lyrics, their music has came back!! METALLICA IS BACK!!
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Sep 10, 20112008 marks 25 years since Metallica's very first release, and they're still amazing. Also, this proves that DEATH MAGNETIC is not just a celebration of 25 years since KILL 'EM ALL--it's original, and every song is worth listening to--over and over and over.
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JasonM.Oct 29, 2008
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Sep 6, 2013
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Nov 11, 2016
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SeanC.Sep 13, 2008Music good, but the whole thing is distorted to hell. It has no power and no dynamics and sounds like your speakers have blown up. One of the worst sounding discs I've ever heard. Very low quality product from such an important band.
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mokab.Sep 18, 2008Painfully dull and poorly produced, A great improvement on St. Anger, true. But being honest, a recording of them taking a dump would be mildly more interesting than the past one.
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JoshHOct 15, 2009It still is the best album they've done for about twenty years, but God that's not a difficult thing to achieve. This album does nothing for the imagination though, it's just plain same old Metallica. Nothing special really.
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TOmD.Sep 18, 2008Please give up the Name Metallica, belongs to young more aggressive Bands.
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JohnKApr 14, 2009
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GregV.Oct 11, 2008
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AngeloM.Oct 3, 2008My vote is due to technical reasons, is not a vote to the artistic value. Sound on this CD is awful, audio is too compress, there's no definition of nothing! Please Metallica, remaster your album.
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flyh.Sep 11, 2008R.I.P. Metallica has died.
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D.Sep 11, 2008I tried listening to this album with an open mind but that was nowhere near enough to make me want to ever listen to this album again. Boring and uninspired average hard rock from a one time great band. If I was given this album for free I'd still feel ashamed for owning it.
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AshP.Sep 13, 2008Sounds like a remake of load till you get to all nightmare long,then you feel like your back to the master of puppets days but only for a brief second,get out of the studio go back to the garage drink some piss and go back to where it all started,and we might have some hope of getting the seek and destroy days back.
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FredOct 2, 2008There's just nothing to complain. Death Magnetic is a 100%-Metallica album, and everyone who gives it less than 10 points probably forgets that Metallica is Metallica oder just doesn't like the real, original Metallica sound.
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ChrisGOct 17, 2008This is a return to glory for Metallica. If you don't like this album it is probably because you were a fan of the black album pop-metal era of Metallica. This album reminds me of Justice. The music is awesome, but the lyrics and subjects they now right about keep them from receiving a perfect score.
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JeffM.Oct 9, 2008
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MikeGSep 12, 2008Metallica have reinvented the term metal with this stunning new album. After the very poor St Anger, metallica have reinstated themselves as the slaves to metal. Epics such as The Day That Never Comes and the latest in tune to the Unforgiven it's not hard to see why Metallica are the most successful band in Metal.
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NikhilM.Sep 12, 2008Best Metallica album since Justice. Enough said. Haters of the album have no arguments, and just want to hate. This is too good to describe. The main draw back is the drums, but I still give it 10/19.
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UlrikG.Sep 13, 2008Simply the best album ever!
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JohnS.Sep 13, 2008Great album, boys are back in town with thrash metal !
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Awards & Rankings
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Sometimes the album's mini-epics come off as we've still got it! stunts. But when it's working, the effect is like ceding your senses to a particularly well-engineered roller coaster in the dark.
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The best ones spit in the face of death; this album instead finds aging men trying to reclaim their youth.
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The musicianship feels thrillingly live throughout, and nimble new bassist Robert Trujillo helps, even though he's mostly heard as a distant, ominous rumble.