Following my last blog post about Metallica's new single Paul (aka Magmar, Mags, Maggy etc..) wrote some words for me to post on here about the single and the album in general:
"Although James Hetfield's voice is not as sharp as it was back when they released their self titled masterpiece [the 'Black Album'], the front man appears on the album with vocals which without any doubt are far better than the ones on the band's previous studio album, 2003's release "St. Anger". Hetfield's fellow 6 stringer, lead guitarist Kirk Hammet also made a return to his roots as he colours the new singles with his signature "old school" solos which aid Hetfield's riffs to produce the classical Metallica sound.
The band's ninth studio album is also bassist's Robert Trujillo writing debut and as seen and heard so far, Trujillo is doing a pretty good job. The bass riff on "Cyanide" (which was debuted live at Ozzfest 08) proves that back in 2003, Metallica made the right pick when they were replacing Newstead. To the disappointment of many, the band's cofounder Lars Ulrich did not offer the fans what they were expecting. The first single off from the new album titled "The Day that never comes" was described by the media as a reminiscent of the epic breakthrough single "One, but on the contrary to the latter, Ulrich doesn’t offer that machine gun drumming he did offer back in the old days. Let’s just hope that on the remaining nine tracks of the new album Ulrich delights the fans with the legendary sound which made Metallica the Icons of Metal."
Some trivia on Paul:
Mags is a musician. Wait... scratch that... he's a drummer actually (the picture proves it!). He has been a fan of Metallica since his foray into metal music. It is because of Metallica's drummer that he started playing drums and it is his personal aim to be better than his drumming hero (yeah right...). He is also the only guy who's as tall *cough* as I am. Magmar is also known to lurk in the shadows of the living room late into the night watching YouTube videos on his laptop (formerly on mine) as well as writing (silly :P) riffs on Guitar Pro 5. Paul is also allergic to any kind of shirt and is mostly seen bear-chested.
Roo
"Although James Hetfield's voice is not as sharp as it was back when they released their self titled masterpiece [the 'Black Album'], the front man appears on the album with vocals which without any doubt are far better than the ones on the band's previous studio album, 2003's release "St. Anger". Hetfield's fellow 6 stringer, lead guitarist Kirk Hammet also made a return to his roots as he colours the new singles with his signature "old school" solos which aid Hetfield's riffs to produce the classical Metallica sound.
The band's ninth studio album is also bassist's Robert Trujillo writing debut and as seen and heard so far, Trujillo is doing a pretty good job. The bass riff on "Cyanide" (which was debuted live at Ozzfest 08) proves that back in 2003, Metallica made the right pick when they were replacing Newstead. To the disappointment of many, the band's cofounder Lars Ulrich did not offer the fans what they were expecting. The first single off from the new album titled "The Day that never comes" was described by the media as a reminiscent of the epic breakthrough single "One, but on the contrary to the latter, Ulrich doesn’t offer that machine gun drumming he did offer back in the old days. Let’s just hope that on the remaining nine tracks of the new album Ulrich delights the fans with the legendary sound which made Metallica the Icons of Metal."Some trivia on Paul:
Mags is a musician. Wait... scratch that... he's a drummer actually (the picture proves it!). He has been a fan of Metallica since his foray into metal music. It is because of Metallica's drummer that he started playing drums and it is his personal aim to be better than his drumming hero (yeah right...). He is also the only guy who's as tall *cough* as I am. Magmar is also known to lurk in the shadows of the living room late into the night watching YouTube videos on his laptop (formerly on mine) as well as writing (silly :P) riffs on Guitar Pro 5. Paul is also allergic to any kind of shirt and is mostly seen bear-chested.Roo
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