Death Magnetic

Title:	Death Magnetic
Creator:	Metallica & Rick Rubin
Date(s):	September 12, 2008
Medium:	Music, Music Video
Fandom:	Metallica
Language:	English
External Links:	Album Release Page
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Death Magnetic is the ninth studio album by Metallica, it has well-known tracks like The Unforgiven III, which is the last part of the Unforgiven trilogy. To some, it's a return to their heavier sound that was present in their first four studio albums. It is cited as being a return to form by the way of having longer songs like 1988's ...And Justice for All did. It has longer guitar solos that St. Anger was missing entirely.

Track Listing

1. That Was Just Your Life
2. The End Of The Line
3. Broken, Beat & 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

There was a Deluxe edition of the album released in CD with 10 tracks all of which were demo versions of what would come to be Death Magnetic.

Sound Quality Complaints

At the time of the albums release many fans were unhappy with the quality of the sound of the record saying that it had a compressed sound quality.

Fans have noted that these sonic problems are not present in the Guitar Hero version of the album, where the guitars, bass, drums, and vocals are presented separately due to the mechanics of the game. The tracks were sent to the game publishers prior to being compressed. As a result, fans have shared "Guitar Hero" versions of the album. MusicRadar and Rolling Stone attribute a quote to the album's mastering engineer Ted Jensen in which he claims that "mixes were already brick-walled before they arrived" for mastering and cite a petition from fans to remix or remaster the album.

Mission Metallica

Mission Metallica was the name of the 2008 documentary that the band made while in the studio making of Death Magnetic. It wasn't a proper documentary like A Years and a Half in the Life of Metallica or Some Kind of Monster. It was much gritter in both footage and sound. It gave a view into just the recording process of the record. Rick Rubin who was the producer wasn't seen much in the documentary, which was strange considering how the fans were used to seeing Bob Rock with the band making recording, engineering, and even having arrangement choice along with Hetfield and Ulrich.

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