Metallica Death Magnetic (2 Lp's) EP " Tipping their collective hats

" Tipping their collective hats to Chuck Berry

ASSASSINATION DAY 2

Betts acquits himself well on the opening "Ain't Wastin' Time No More

they are spared from becoming too self-indulgent and depressing

Metallica Death Magnetic (2 Lp's) EP " Tipping their collective hatsThe world at large got a fly on the wall view of the creation of Metallica's 2003 album, ST. ANGER, via the documentary SOME KIND OF MONSTER, so we know they consciously tried to keep things contemporary at that time by avoiding fleet fingered solos and eschewing the sound of the "old" Metallica. If that hoary old term "return to form" ever applied to a rock album, though, it's ANGER's follow up, DEATH MAGNETIC. In the five years between the two