METALLICA UNVEIL COVER ARTWORK?
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008 at 8:55am by Vince NeilsteinMetallica and their management may not understand that you can’t control what people say on the Internet, but they sure do understand one thing: getting headlines on Blabbermouth. And apparently MetalSucks, too; like passing a wreck on the highway or a retarded kid outside a cerebral palsy clinic, I just can’t help but watch (and write) every single time.
The latest news article in question is actually from Metallica’s Official Website, and was posted yesterday with the title “???”
Are Metallica gonna go all Beatles on us and make The White Album while simultaneously referencing 1991’s unofficially titled The Black Album?
-VN
I think that looks fuckin’ cool, if anything!
I will try and stop myself from saying that it looks like Cavalera Consipiracy (ooops!), and that subsequently can be mocked as Cunt’s Conspiracy.
Then again, are those magnets attracting or detracting the last bit of credibility for the band?
In any case, in all seriousness, me thinks it looks cool, sober, and intriguing.
I like Metallica up until Load. My favourtie albums by them are Ride The Lightning and Load, actually (i.e. the second one from each decade). Come to think of it, this will be the second one from this decade. I now have hopes…
that sucks
Anyone else think Goatse when they see this, or am I just that fucked up? Is Metallica finally just spreading their ass cheeks apart and telling us to buy it?
You know what I heard? I heard there were some early reviews of the new album, and one of the reviews wasn’t totally glowing so the band (probably that Lars) made the magazine or whatever pull the review and then you know what I heard? I heard Lars had the guy who wrote the review killed and then Q-Prime kidnapped the guy’s wife and two daughters and sold them to an Indonesian sweatshop and then you know I heard? I heard Lars is going to sue the writer even though he’s already dead and then you what I heard? I heard they’re also going to sue Cliff Burton’s family because Lars found out Cliff’s mom had some bootleg copies of some old shows from the Troubador from 1983 that she made copies of for this friend in her bridge club to give to her grandson.
Then James wore a cowboy hat!
Is this a magnet? Are those magnetic lines of force? How… something.
If it’s true, it’s crap. How ’bout an old school cover for a throwback disc?
Last night I had a dream I heard the first 2:30 of the first track on the new disc. It sounded similar to Sad But True. I liked it.
you guys can suck my god damn dicksack…the new album fucking rules…you faggots will see!
james and i are going door to door to everyone of you who dont like us and careening your skulls with a fucking baseball bat!
talk shit now fagr0dz!
*chugs diet coke with lemon*
They must have hired one lazy-ass graphic designer.
That looks like a shitty WWE logo. What happened to METALLICA?They are too far gone to ever get anywhere close to thrash or anything remotley cool ever again. They are about as cool as a tribal tattoo. Besides their horrible mall metal imagery or the fact that lars has slowly unlearned how to play the drums the worst part about metallica is Jame’s redneck cheese vocals.lame, lame, lame
desperation
That would be a cool logo/artwork if it wasn’t for Metallica. That kind of graphic design just doesn’t scream Metallica to me, electric chairs in a sky full of lightning and bloody hammers scream Metallica!
It sucks, ’nuff said.
Spread The Ass.
A perfect title for a comeback/throwback album. Kill Em All, Ride The Lightning, Master of Puppets… Spread The Ass!
If it were “Spread the Ass,” wouldn’t the U-shaped dealies be pointed the other way – with the round side pointing out, I mean (with maybe the letter O in the middle)? As it is, I’d say it looks more like two buttcheeks pressing together as opposed to spreading apart. But whatever.
This is from the perspective of a Jewish Megadeth fan (i.e. me), so I’m going to focus on financial issues (that’s where the Jew in me comes in) trying to be level-headed about this (where the Droogie in me comes in):
Ok, so Metallica have disappointed sure enough, and if you have your reasons to hate them, go ahead. Please bare in mind that it seems that a lot of people are getting pissed off because over the span of the release of Load (which I like) and St. Anger, roughly 8 years, Metallica ‘robbed’ them of (counting only studio albums) the value of approx. $30. Over 8 years $30 isn’t much. Now, if you keep on buying the stuff they put out whilst you moan about feeling cheated, then who’s the asshole?
And yeah… Sure, I don’t like anything after Re-Load (which I incidently bought, as well as St. Anger), but I’m not bitching that they cheated me… I just think that the band didn’t develop in the way that I was expecting -which turned out to be shit, that’s all.
Those are my 2p… Yeah… I’m in the UK.
that logo looks like it was previously designed by a graphic artist working for Microsoft in an attempt to look more like a mac.
And since when are 3rd grade science experiments metal? Was a picture of a vinegar and baking soda volcano not good enough?
This artwork is pretty fucking minimalistic.
At least it doesn’t have the cheesiness of the one for St Anger but it still ain’t the artworks we’ve seen on the first few albums that were good.
What I understood from it is that it totally represents two birds colliding with one another.Just like they can’t fucking stop bickering on each other all the fucking time.
In the videos they posted on Blabbermouth I sincerely felt for Kirk.The dude is out of inspiration because there’s too much arguing for any concrete creative process to take place.
The ”music” in these videos (well the parts we’ve heard) were not so great.
These guys can’t keep a damn focus anymore.I thought the producer would force them to discipline themselves a little but we never fucking see the guy in the videos.Can someone tell me where he’s gone?
Sick of the bitch fights I guess?
Retired at his young age just because of this experience with Metallica that totally threw him out of it and made him realize this job is not for him??
If so,heck,I FUCKING FEEL FOR HIM TOO.
The art looks cool. Fuck you all. Metallica rules. This is the first time I’ve been to this website. What a bunch of pussies.
Am I the first one who thinks there’s no way in hell that this is the artwork for the new album?
I think they are working on some sort of way to release the album to peeps on the interwebz (think Trent Reznor style) to get their street cred back / make a killing.
This is probably some concept art for that web site that got released in order to make everyone forget about their management taking down those reviews a few days ago.
Just my $0.02.
I HATE METALLICA !!!
Bring back Pushead man.
Apparently Vince Neilstein is trying to “control what people say on the internet.” I put up a pro-Metallica post, and called him a pussy, and it disappeared. What a hypocrite.
Metallica still rules. Vince Neilstein is still a pussy.
Look at the website now…a new thing that looks like that with more letters in the middle. Maybe their just unveiling the name of the album? :|
@Skhayden14
It would seem they’re pulling a Slipknot and are about to have a million teasers.
It seems in their official page it’s called “magnetic”. Man that’s weak.
officially it’s “Death Magnetic”….