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New Metallica album 'Death Magnetic' leaks

Band say they don't mind though...

Wed 03 Sep, 2008

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hoolign69, what do you mean by oversaturated. Their are other reasons why I believe Metallica leaked Death Magnetic. This video explains: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfcGLnuNqCM

Tue 09 Sep, 2008

In my opinion Metallica leaked Death Magenetic themselves. If someone had ripped the CD and made mp3s as they say, the sound quality would have been much better. The tracks sound distorted and this wouldn't have been caused from them being mp3s. On the other, most of the Death Magnetic mp3s on the internet have been made with low compression settings which allow for above average mp3 sound quality! - 320 kbs (which is better than 192 kbs for eg.) For the songs to have this poor sound quality, the source audio must have had poor sound quality. By doing this Metallica have achieved:1. Positive PR by telling everyone that they don't mind that this happened.2. Saturating the internet with these poor quality version of the album, so when it comes out the fans are forced to buy it to get a good quality version.It makes sense to me.

Fri 05 Sep, 2008

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