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After the disappointing and relatively commerically unsuccessful (least selling Metallica album) St. Anger, the thrash band that helped to rip apart the 1980s needed an album to win back face - Death Magnetic does just that. Death Magnetic features a new producer (Rick Rubin, who replaces Bob Rock) is a fast-paced, in-your-face album that has few pitfalls (The Day That Never Comes is a watered-down radio-friendly Metallica). It is thematic (largely around death) much as Metallica’s old albums were (Ride The Lightning having a theme of being trapped and trying to escape, enter One and Escape). Death Magnetic is defintiely worth buying, or for your Guitar Heroes purchase on the Xbox Live Marketplace, and brings back the tough, technical sound that Metallica had long been known for before St. Anger attempted to be “raw”. Ten tracks of great guitar riffs, solos, and a great technical sound as a whole with gunfire-like double bass from Lars Ulrich, is well worth the album that you could really get into and give multiple plays to.
1. That Was Just Your Life
2. The End of the Line
3. Broken, Beaten, and Scarred
4. The Day That Never Comes
5. All Nightmare Long
6. Cyanide
7. The Unforgiven III
8. The Judas Kiss
9. Suicide & Redemption
10. My Apocalypse
8.5/10