Not another one of these threads... I don't know what is more pathetically absurd, people still whining about Metallica and Napster or people like the person below that seems to be under the impression that it had anything to do with the musicians themselves.
you know normally don't pick internet fights but I am bored.
so you lost interest over Metallica fighting against Napster, a band of fucking corporate thieves.
People bitch corporations doing heinous shit except I guess its ok for corporations to steal from musicians...
I remember my cousin, who was a decent guitar player in a local band (who shall remain nameless but they don't exist anymore) literally having to sell CDs and tapes after they played dive bar shows to try to make money as a band....and the day he saw his bands tracks on Napster....and literally smashed his girlfriends computer to pieces....
I can understand people doing file sharing because they cannot afford all the music they would like to listen to...that's the same as any of us making copies and giving out to our families and friends...yeah its a violation but its practical economics...
but a fucking corporation making commercializing theft...and people have the fucking balls to bitch at Metallica over it....fuck all those people.
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As to the music, Metallica is one of the top 10 bands of all time in the broad Rock genre. They went through their experimental phase with Load and Reload and seem back onto their core hard rock/metal/punkish sound. Will we ever see anything as great as the first three albums? No. But then again the same is true for multiple bands.
I think you mean steal from other corporations. And laughable that you get pissy about Napster but seemingly don't give a shit about the music industry being chock full of corporations stealing music and fucking over musicians far longer than Napster was. And it was the corporations that were mad about Napster, they just tell the popular musicians to spout the nonsense they want them to. And of course look at how the music industry has been since technology basically showed them for the laughable dumbfuck assholes they are. They've fought technology and their customers tooth and nail and wonder where their revenues went. They blame everything but themselves for their loss in profits when that's the most blatantly obvious reason. On top of that they still bitch and tout their profits and revenue from the 90s when they were literally found to be price fixing and complain about how revenue has fallen. Sadly they're dying a slow death as they try to get laws written to give them permanent copyrights (including for shit they never had valid copyright for, see shit like Happy Birthday) and force governments to do their work (see the ridiculously excessive MegaUpload/KimDotCom raid; them writing the legal documents for was it Alabama's Attorney General to try to go after Google with; among far too many others).
Actually, do you work for a music studio/publisher? That last paragraph is like straight marketing speak.
Sure they've "returned to their roots" by literally playing their roots (there's a reason you basically don't hear them playing shit from St Anger or even Death Magnetic). We'll see how the new album sounds (Moth Into Flame sounds interesting, I'd almost say good even although I'm really not a fan of James' vocals any more and feel like they lessen my enjoyment of the song).
That riff sounds awfully familiar too. For some reason I'm thinking it sounds like a Sabbath song?