Thought Overflow

Well, this post is obviously filler. But I found this picture amusing enough to share. Basically, Steve’s a pretty big fan of Metallica, and is pretty excited about their new album, Death Magnetic, which is receiving some pretty good reviews. So, he invited me to join the group “Metallica” on facebook. And this is the result of accepting that invitation. So now you know who’s doing the background vocals on Metallica .

Since I’ve already spoken about Metallica’s new album, I suppose I might as well go ahead and comment a little bit on the album,which I’ve heard (not in its entirety though). My initial comments are:

• Kirk Hammett returns with his impressive guitar solos/leads (I’ve never really understood the difference between a guitar solo and a guitar lead…someone might be able to explain this).
• It does NOT sound like St. Anger or any of their last few albums actually.
• But it doesn’t quite sound like Master of Puppets either. Perhaps that’s partially because MoP has become a legend in my head to the point of where I know and love every note of every song (almost).
• “The Unforgiven III” is absolutely awesome and I’m likely to like it for a very long time; at least, I certainly hope so. I have a bad tendency to get bored of songs (as does everyone else, no?).
• The sound appears to be a little dirty. In fact, I’d say it’s probably their dirtiest sounding record yet (not counting St. Anger). It makes the sound rougher, but it’s not quite an effect I like too much. Then again, it could just be that I got a bad version or something.