Well my man, so what do u want’em to do???? When they did AJFA, everyone tought it was bad cuz doesnt sounded like their older albus, the same with Black Album, and then the same but 100’000 times bigger with L&RL…
I mean, ofcourse DM is not RTL, MOP or AJFA, but those albums will never come back, masterieces comes only once per life, and metallica did 3, they won’t do an album as good as those ones. But what they can do now, is come closer to that thrashy sound than to the Load, ReLoad & by the mos that St.Anger weird sound.
That’s what we gotta espect’em to do, and i think DM is a proove that they r trying yo come to the good way again.

And ofcourse James doesn’t sounds lke in KEA, cuz he is almost 30 years older man! it’s a matter of age, time doesn’t forgives anyone. U & me we don’t sound the same now than when we were teenagers, and we wont sound, look, think or act the same now than when we become old men dude… But we r not a metal singers, we didnt played hundreds of thousands of gigs during our life. James did it, he should have had a voice trainer, he should had done his vocals exercises, but for 10years he took not care at all for his voice or throat, untl it blew up 18 years ago, losing his great voice. He fucked it up man, it’s his fault, blame on him, no one but he is the guilty.

I mean, just like any other physical skill, control of the voice, including, power, range, quality, pitch control is a skill that can be developed.
The best trained singers have such developed technique that they sound like they were born with it, but often weren’t.
The singers that end up being the best in the long run are the ones with the most dedication and hard work.
Someone born with natural ability may start 20 steps ahead of you, but that is not much in a marathon that is 30 miles.
All abuse comes from specific technical flaws:

-For example, if you don’t have enough air to support a note, you strain and rub your vocal chords together.
Obviously, this will cause vocal damage. If you or me try to sing like Axl Rose screaming, yea we WILL damage our voice. But a strong agressive powerful voice that is TRAINED always seems to have more impact than someone screaming.

When you just scream with no training, you sound like every other person that makes up for their lack of voice or vocal control by screaming.
May sound cool in the studio, but the stories of stars that tried to keep this up on the road are many.

Bruce Dickinson from Iron Maiden or James had major vocal problems from touring. Then they then went to vocal training to get back their voice and learn how to sing without destroying themselves.

They both recovered much of his voice (u can c it for james in Load & Reload) but after that James did hard alkohol & other drugs again, he didnt care about his exercises, and he fucked up again. Bruce keeps sounding pretty good.

A well trained singer can sing 3 hours a day 365 days a year and sound better every day…

But anyway, that’s the past, now a day he is trying to fix his voice, he can’t do throat surgeon for his vocals chords poblem, it’s not a problem like KoRn’s Jon Davis or Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler, these singers did laser throat surgeon and they could fix their vocals chords.
They had luck, but they also have a lot of vocal work.

The only thing James can do is do his “vocals warms up” every day, and taking care of his throat every single day of his life, but IN MY OPINION all these cares will be only so he doesn’t loses his voice.

I mean, if he doesn’t do these things, his problem will only get worse and worse with time, that’s his fate. So, we should understand he will never sound like in AJFA or Black Album anymore. Lets wish he will get a lil of his voice back in the next years…

My bad, buddy. I looked it up again and you’re right about Mustaine’s credits on the songs.

But I will have to disagree with you on your comment about Rob. No doubt his bass playing is solid, all respect to the guy, but if you’re saying that Death Magnetic was a good album then thats not much of a compliment to Rob coz DM sucked donkey’s balls. Most of the songs seem uninspired. There is actually very little so called power/heavy riffage in the album. The songs dont have any chunk to them. They all sound so “twangy” and James’ voice by no means sound “metal” anymore. I know he damaged his vocal chord in 1991 but come on! If you listen to KEA and then listen DM you cant even make out its the same singer.

I am not a Metallica hater. In fact the very first heavy metal song I heard was way back in ’89 when I heard One. It blew me away. This band is the reason I got into metal. But DM, I am sorry to say, is a not their come back OR return to form as people make it out to be. In all probability it consists of a bunch of songs from their music bank which they might have created over the years and just decided to put them together with a little re-arranging.

Mustaine is credited 4 times in KEA (4horsemen,JITF,Phantom Lord & Metal Militia) and 2 times in RTL (RTL & Ktulu) so, as i said before, 6 times. He is NOT CREDITED IN ANY M.O.P. SONG!

And about Trujillo, dude, after Hetfield, Rob is the one who wrote the most of DM stuff, and DM is a great album. He even wrote some guitar parts, he helped in the intro of TWJYL, he wrote the killer bass riff in TEOTL, he did some the “spanish guitar transitions” of TDTNC, the intro and several guitar parts in ANL… I mean, everything he suggested to the band, finally did it to the album, so, i think he is not just an employee, he is part of the band, and with time he will become an important part of the band. This album showed us his potential as musician, the next one will confirm him as a reality in metal music, and in the future his good work will become him a legend for all MetallicA fans, as both Jason and (mostly) Cliff were…

It was funny hehehe

I think there should be a poll for best to worse Metallica album or Slayer for that matter. Ofcourse its not rocket science but it would still be fun.

a) He is a splendid bass player.
b) He seemed to have more balls and had he been around now they would not have changed their sound which, btw is fucking ballocks now.
c) Anesthesia – You cant even make out that it is a bass solo, its so damn good.

My second choice would have been Mustaine.

a) He is a stronger guitarist than James and Kirk put together. Megadeth songs are a lot more harder to play than metallica songs.
b) He is like a rabid dog on a leash. He just cant wait to rip out a new asshole in Kill em All… there is not ONE song on that album that anyone can label as a bad song.
c) To the guy who claims he is credited on only six songs. Look up Ride the Lightening and Master of Puppets. He has been credited there too.

Its amazing that his band still captures our fascination. Fucking money hungry whores!! I feel sorry for Rob Truijlo, but just like any other employee, he is getting paid to play and not to write. What a shame.

Fuckin bass guitar player!!!

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He “left” Metallica before the end of the band in 1992. [2]

Mustaine is just credited in just 6 fuckin MetallicA songs, he was just in te band for a year and he keeps earning money by saying james & lars were bad with him. I like MegadetH too, but bullshit like this just drives me crazy. Kirk’s & James’ styles are completely diferent from Dave’s, do u think that cuz he taught’em the spider-riff then he deerves all the credit for MetallicA’s success???

MetallicA’s best songs & albums came later with RTL, MOP & AJ4A. At that time, Dave did KIMB, PSBWB, SFSG, RIP, albums u could only listen to 2 or 3 songs per album cuz the rest of the songs were COMPLETE CRAP. The Black Album kicks Cryptic Writtings, Youthanasia & Countdown to Extintion asses anyday. And Risk is not better than L&R. Ok, St.Anger is way worst than The World Needs a Hero & The System Has Failed, but then MetallicA came back to the #1 of thrash metal with DM, which beated UA once again. And all of this happened WITHOUT MUSTAINE!!!!

He “left” Metallica before the end of the band in 1992.