Mission: Metallica (teaser)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTLBDMT9PmY

 

http://www.missionmetallica.com/

Official website live today!

Looks good to me. I like the "fly on the wall" type stuff. I'm thinking this will be the biggest rock release of '08. Rumors are album will be released in September.

 

Those little bits sounded pretty good. Here's to hoping.

 

Agreed! I like those a lot more than the St. Anger material already.

 

There is a great riff at 0:41 of the youtube video. Immediately following that sounds like a great track with the vocal "Bow down, sell your soul to me"

 

Oh yeah, now this is sounding promising Can't wait till Sept

 

I am seeing them live in 2 months

 

Looks like the rumor of a September release is factual. I was in Times Square last week, and the Billabong store has a giant display out front with a photo of the band and "New Album Coming in September" reference

 

Maybe a hint on the new album cover? From the official website:

 

That looks pretty cool. I guess "CC" would be some sort of shorthand for the album title.

I still like the 4-M ninja star better, but this is an interesting visual.

 

Actually, to me it looks more like the cover of some electronic music album.. We'll see how it will turn up.

There's a 200-post discussion at the Metallica forums

 

Now here's something I noticed when I visited the Metallica site yesterday. Perhaps you can help decode this. Is the vinyl LP going to be the full album, or a box set containing outtakes, throwaways, etc?

Here's why I ask - the vinyl album is going to be 5 LPs. Five records.

Is that really going to be the full album? I've been giddy at the thought that this would really be the case, and this is the reason it's taken them so damned long. It's never encouraging when a long-running rock band spends a year and a half making a studio album. By this point, they should be churning them out in their sleep. Lack of chemistry? Lack of inspiration? Have they simply grown too old? All questions, no answers, and to be perfectly honest my expectations aren't very high.

So, again, you can imagine my excitement at the sight of a 5-LP release. That would certainly be one hell of a surprise. Any thoughts?

 

Let's see.. a 5 LP release would translate to roughly 3.75 hours of music.. or enough for a 3 CD set... hmmm...

 

I have a feeling it will be the album only, pressed on 180-gram vinyl (45 RPM).

As for that mysterious logo/illustration, the C's look like the N in the Bonaroo logo. I think it is probably an illustration for an event shirt. That's my guess.

 

Why would you think that?

 

A) They've mentioned that only 10 songs will be on the album- with the rest of the finished tracks to be used in other outlets (think Japanese b-sides and i-Tunes);

B) http://www.missionmetallica.com/store/ says 5-LP box 180-gram in individual sleeves.

If taken literally, it sounds like 5 full-length albums (LP=Long-play), but I believe this should be construed as 5 discs. To spread 10 songs over 5 discs would mean 1 per side, probably at 45 rpm, not 33 1/3 (that would be a lot of dead wax). I think that sounds a little over the top, but it makes more sense than 3.5 hours of Metallica on this record.

 

I can't read those forums anymore, too much bashing and juvenille conversation

A 5LP set for just album material seems a bit extreme, but I think it will happen like that. The upcoming ...Justice For All LP will be 4 discs @ 45rpm. Add two more songs (Justice has 8) and you gotcha 5 discs.

As for why it has taken them another 5 year spell between albums, I think it just boiled down to changing priorities. They are all fathers, married, etc. I know they enjoy taking 6-months off to spend with their families. Instead of churning out a recording/writing session over 2 months, they take almost 2 years because of four (half) day work weeks, etc. And that's a luxury they've afforded themselves. Sucks for fans, but if I was as financially set as any of them, I can't say I'd be in a hurry to do something that I could just as easily take my time on and spend more of my days with the wife + kids.

 

Another part of that logo revealed (?) today:

 

I'm very excited about the upcoming release from these guys. I hope the album is as good as what I've heard on the site.

 

So what does everyone think Rick Rubin will bring to to table as far as producing the album?

 

There was a Hammet guitar solo.

 

I think Mr. Rubin has brought his b-s detector in a big way.

Hopefully, his b-s detector also picks up self-indulgence- something I think Metallica has been guilty off and on (mostly on) for studio work released in the past 12 years. Load and Reload could have been whittled down to one really killer album with an accompanying EP, IMO.

My hope is that he made the band find the essence of the "song" in each track and not let them go crazy with riffs for the sake of riffery. That's not to say I want stripped-down, one-riff songs, but I felt that St. Anger was way too repetitive with the lyrics and some of the musical arrangements seemed slapped together. Granted, their slapped-together songs are still better than a lot of what has been played on the rock and metal stations in the past 5 years, but I think they are capable of better than that.

In September, we will see.

 

Notice how Rubin never appears in the Mission:Metallica promo videos? I watched one the other day (I have a subsciption to the site) and they ask "What would Rick think?" and show a paper cutout of Rick's face with blinking red lights for eyes

I think Rubin will be a good thing. Things got too comfortable with Bob Rock, to the point he was a member of the band for St. Anger.

I am really enjoying the snippets of songs/riffs I hear on Mission:Metallica. However, the live/demo versions of "Vulturous" and "Death Is Not The End" (working titles) has not impressed me. They just sound like a bunch of riffs slapped together with weak vocals. I am pretty sure DINTE will make it on the album, based on the large amount of clips showing the band working on the track. They appear to have slowed it down, and hopefully improved the structure. Time will tell!

 

Ever since St. Anger I've been sure their next record would actually be good... I expect another Load, and I wonder if there'll be some speed, like in some St. Anger tracks...

I'm looking forward to it...

 

If any of you have access to the paid portion of Mission:Metallica site, they are streaming Metallica's live performance at Bonnaroo live right now

Sounds and looks great, maybe this show will get an official release?