Metallica. Death Magnetic (2008)

Death Magnetic is the upcoming ninth studio album by American heavy metal band Metallica. It is scheduled for release on September 12, 2008 by Warner Bros. Records. The album will be the band's first to feature current bassist Robert Trujillo, and the first to be produced by Rick Rubin. Death Magnetic also marks the first time in the band's history in which all band members contributed to each song on an album. It will be their first studio album released through Warner Bros., although they still remain with Warner Music Group, which also owns Elektra Records, the band's previous label.

Since May 12, 2008, the album has been heavily promoted on its specially dedicated website, entitled Mission: Metallica, which features daily updates of exclusive, behind-the-scenes sneak previews with photos and video clips from the studio. The original logo used by the band, which had been discontinued following the 1993 release Live Shit: Binge & Purge in favor of more modernized band logos, made its return on Death Magnetic.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by James Hetfield, Kirk Hammett, Robert Trujillo, and Lars Ulrich.

1. "That Was Just Your Life" – 7:08
2. "The End of the Line" – 7:52
3. "Broken, Beat & Scarred" – 6:25
4. "The Day That Never Comes" – 7:56
5. "All Nightmare Long" – 7:57
6. "Cyanide" – 6:39
7. "The Unforgiven III" – 7:46
8. "The Judas Kiss" – 8:00
9. "Suicide & Redemption" – 9:57
10. "My Apocalypse" – 5:01

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Metallica. Master of Puppets (1986)

Master of Puppets is the third album by American thrash metal band Metallica. The album was recorded in 1985 and released by Elektra Records on March 26, 1986.

The album reached number twenty-nine on the U.S. Billboard 200, and has to date sold over six million copies in U.S. alone. It was the last album the band recorded with bass player Cliff Burton and is considered a landmark in the history of heavy metal.

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aster of Puppets provided many metal fans with an alternate image to the commercially popular glam metal bands such as Poison, and Quiet Riot. The album sold over half a million copies at its time of release without any major video/radio airplay, making it the band's first record to be certified Gold by the RIAA. The album is often credited for innovating thrash metal, specially for the fact it included some rhythms which were written in a more progressive-like mode, and it also added acoustic features along with an ambient similar to power metal in at least some parts of the songs, all of these not credited to the thrash scene, thus being innovative. The album was influential to the later started post-thrash scene, mainly stylistically. The album has also frequently being tagged by critics as "one of the most influential heavy metal albums of all time".

The band's line-up during the album's recording was James Hetfield (vocals, guitar), Lars Ulrich (drums), Kirk Hammett (lead guitar), and the late Cliff Burton (bass). The album is remembered in part due to the death of Burton shortly after the release of the album in a bus accident while supporting the album on tour.

Track Listing

1. "Battery" – 5:13 (Hetfield, Ulrich)
2. "Master of Puppets" – 8:36 (Hetfield, Ulrich, Burton, Hammett)
3. "The Thing That Should Not Be" – 6:37 (Hetfield, Ulrich, Burton, Hammett)
4. "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)" – 6:28 (Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammett)
5. "Disposable Heroes" – 8:17 (Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammett)
6. "Leper Messiah" – 5:41 (Hetfield, Ulrich)
7. "Orion" – 8:28 (Hetfield, Burton, Ulrich)
8. "Damage, Inc." – 5:30 (Hetfield, Ulrich, Burton, Hammett)

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Metallica. Metallica (1991)

Metallica (also known as The Black Album, in reference to The White Album, because of its largely black and nearly-featureless cover) is the 1991 self-titled album by the American heavy metal band Metallica. It was the band's fifth studio album.

Metallica was released August 12, 1991, through Elektra Records and is the band's best-selling album to date, with 14.95 million copies sold in the United States alone (as of July 21, 2007). In 2003, the album was ranked number 252 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

On the cover, only the band's logo and a coiled snake (derived from the Gadsden flag - which could be seen hanging on a wall in the "One on One" recording studio where the album was recorded) are visible. The motto of the Gadsden flag, "Don't Tread on Me", is also the title of a song featured on the album.

Track listing

All songs written by James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich except where noted.

1. "Enter Sandman" (Kirk Hammett, Hetfield, Ulrich) – 5:32
2. "Sad But True" – 5:25
3. "Holier Than Thou" – 3:48
4. "The Unforgiven" (Hammett, Hetfield, Ulrich) – 6:27
5. "Wherever I May Roam" – 6:44
6. "Don't Tread on Me" – 4:00
7. "Through the Never" (Hammett, Hetfield, Ulrich) – 4:04
8. "Nothing Else Matters" – 6:29
9. "Of Wolf and Man" (Hammett, Hetfield, Ulrich) – 4:17
10. "The God That Failed" – 5:09
11. "My Friend of Misery" (Hetfield, Jason Newsted, Ulrich) – 6:50
12. "The Struggle Within" – 3:54
13. "So What?" (European and Asian release bonus track) – 3:08

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