Metallica - Death Magnetic

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Album Review

Release date: 15 September 2008

Metallica - Death Magnetic

Metallica

Death Magnetic

When exactly did Metallica stop being a metal band for metal fans and become one of the hugest groups ever to stalk the planet? Was it in 1991, when ‘Enter Sandman’ built upon ‘One’’s groundwork and turned the biggest heavy band in the world into a radio/MTV-palatable proposition? Or in 2004, when the world saw the relationship between its creative fulcrum disintegrate in Some Kind Of...

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Metallica - Death Magnetic: Wikipedia Album Entry

Death Magnetic was released on September 12, 2008. Metallica's ninth studio album, it was the first to be produced by Rick Rubin. It was Recorded April 2007–May 2008.

It is the band's first studio album to feature current bassist Robert Trujillo. Death Magnetic is also the band's first studio album released through Warner Bros. Records, although they still remain with Warner Music Group, which also owns their previous label, Elektra Records. Outside of North America, they are distributed by Universal Music Group as they remain signed to Vertigo Records in the United Kingdom.

Grammy Nominations (4)

Best Rock Album
Best Metal Performance ("My Apocalypse")
Best Rock Instrumental Performance ("Suicide & Redemption")
Best Recording Package

Platinum Album in the U.S., Gold in the U.K.
Fifth consecutive Metallica album to debut at number 1 on the Billboard 200 in the US.

Information from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallica's_ninth_studio_album

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Metallica - My Apocalypse Lyrics

Claustrophobic, crawl out of this skin
High explosive, reach and pull that pin
Fear thy name ‘extermination’
Desecrating hail of fire

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Metallica - The Day That Never Comes Lyrics

Born to push you around
You better just stay down
You pull away, he hits the flesh
You hit the ground

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Metallica - All Nightmare Long Lyrics

One, two

Luck runs out
Crawl from the wreckage one more time

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Metallica - Broken, Beat & Scarred Lyrics

You rise, you fall, you're down then you rise again
What don't kill you'll make you more strong
You rise, you fall, you're down then you rise again
What don't kill you'll make you more strong

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Metallica - The Unforgiven III Lyrics

How could he know this new dawn's light
Would change his life forever?
Set sail to sea but pulled off course
By the light of golden treasure

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Metallica - Cyanide Lyrics

Sleep and dream of this
Death angel's kiss
Brings final bliss
Completely

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Metallica - The End Of The Line Lyrics

Need more and more
Tainted misery
Bleed, battle scars
Chemical affinity

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Metallica - That Was Just Your Life Lyrics

Like a siren in my head that always threatens to repeat
Like a blind man that was shoved into the speeding driver's seat
Like a face that learned to speak
When all it knew was how to fight

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When the world has turned its back
When the days have turned pitch black
When the fear abducts your tongue
When the fire's dead and gone

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