Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:46:13 -0400, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: > On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 13:31:05 -0400, Sean Kelly <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Nick Sabalausky Wrote: >>> >>> I was avoiding stating my own Metallica opinions, but now that you >>> mention >>> it, that's exactly how I feel (and yea, I have heard a lot of other >>> people >>> say Load was the start of a downfall). I did kind of like "Until it >>> Sleeps" >>> and maybe one other (forget what), but yea, most of Load/Reload I just >>> never >>> got into. "Black album" was filed with good stuff, and I never >>> understood >>> people that said "St. Anger" was a return to Metallica's former glory. >>> Just >>> sounded like noise to me, and I'm a big metal fan! >> >> I think the first album of their downhill slide was the Black Album. >> Its production quality was extremely high, and one of the things I >> liked best about Metallica was the garage sound of the earlier albums. >> Musically, I really can't fault it though. > > I have a video of Metallica documenting the making of the Black album (A > year and a half in the life of Metallica). > > You may not like the not-garage sound of the album, but it was one of > the best produced albums they had, and Bob Rock did an excellent job. > One of the coolest things on that video was how they built a special > bizarre shaped enclosure for the rhythm guitar on Sad But True, in order > to get the correct deep guttural sound. They definitely worked hard to > get exactly the sound they wanted, so I feel like that album was almost > the peak of how they wanted to sound. Kirk Hammett said the solo on The > Unforgiven was the best solo he's ever done. It is a pretty good solo > :)
I'm not a big fan of Metallica, but have to admit that the Black album is one of my favorites. I've actually bought it twice. The first one just disappeared many years ago.
