Metallica Will Fight This Century To The Death
“Don’t download this song / even Lars Ulrich knows it’s wrong.”
-Weird Al Yankovic, “Don’t Download This Song”
What’s with Metallica and digital music? First they drag Napster to the ground and kick the hell out of it, and now their fans are complaining that iPods make their music TOO LOUD.
“Death Magnetic” is a flashpoint in a long-running music-industry fight. Over the years, rock and pop artists have increasingly sought to make their recordings sound louder to stand out on the radio, jukeboxes and, especially, iPods… Some fans are complaining that “Death Magnetic” has a thin, brittle sound that’s the result of the band’s attempts in the studio to make it as loud as possible. “Sonically it is barely listenable,” reads one fan’s online critique. Thousands have signed an online petition urging the band to re-mix the album and release it again.
Sure it’s barely listenable sonically, but what about all the other ways?
Well, like all trends this one is a pendulum - it looks like the “make everything loud” trend is about to swing back. I’m sure Lars and the boys have another great unplugged album in ‘em.
-daniel k
September 30th, 2008 at 7:39 am
Sounds like the boys watch “Adult Swim.”
The AS show “Metalocalypse” is about a metal band called Dethklok who make the most “brutal” music in the world, capable of causing all sorts of destruction when performed. Kirk Hammett and James Hetfield have both done cameos on the show. Brutal.
Metallica can’t make their music fatal, bur they can apparently make it annoying.