Gone are the good days of 'here we are, this is our music, i dont give a f*** whether you like it or not' They were the golden metal days. But now metallica shift with different music 'fads' i.e rap metal, nu-metal and I feel betrayed, nothing they do is inspirational anymore, nothing they do makes me want to say 'you guys still f****ng rule'. Load and Re-load was mostly mindless tripe, nothing new, nothing inventive,made (to my ears) purely for the commercial side of the music buisness, and it is less than pleasing to see a great metal band deteriate into a commercial, predictable mess.
Dont get me wrong, I sincerely hope that metallica turn it around with their new album...but everything is pointing to a 'two riffs per track' mess.
oh, and Hammett should be kicked out. hehe.