Interesting. Back in 2008, Metallica released Death Magnetic, arguably their best album since the early 90s. I blogged about it at the time. In summary, while the material was a triumphant return to form, somewhere in the mixing and mastering process, things were badly botched, and the album that was released sounded terrible: not only …
Well, from what I gather, with the future for Forge World’s Epic range uncertain, lots of people have been panic-buying the stuff they still can. To the extent that FW are making a lot of extra money from their Epic lines at the moment. It’s possible that this will mean FW will be more inclined …
So I finally got around to painting something again last week. After getting the Elf Blood Bowl (or rather ‘Gridiron’, Blood Bowl being a ®) team from Shadowforge, I got to painting them at a pretty good rate — painting a model most days — and had got most of them finished when I stopped. …
So, I thought I was done with this whole Death Magnetic thing. But while reading articles on the Internet about the so-called ‘loudness war‘ I came across the news that the vinyl release doesn’t sound as bad as the CD. And this got me interested in looking around for a definitive version of the album …
Last Sunday, having read largely positive reviews and having enjoyed the live version of Cyanide on their Myspace page, I bought Metallica’s new album. My initial reaction was good. There were some great riffs and an energy and excitement to the record that had been missing from everything the band had done after Smell The …