Blackest Album 2: Tribute to Metallica

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 28, 2000)
• Original Release Date: March 28, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Cleopatra
• ASIN: B00004RJ2Z
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #357,851 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Ugh, a disappointing waste of money., September 15, 2005

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k93 - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Blackest Album 2: Tribute to Metallica (Audio CD)

Yuck. I like industrial (as well as techno), and I love Metallica, so I had high hopes for this series of albums, but I am now convinced that never the twain should meet. A few tracks were OK (hence the 2 stars), not great, while several were downright awful and unlistenable. Instead of re-creating a song in an interesting way as a good cover should, it seemed like they attempted to 'industrialize' it merely by screaming the vocals and adding more noise to the guitars, it is really just very bad, and it only made me want to listen to the original Metallica (or some other Industrial like Ministry that does not attempt to do Industrial by taking good music and ruining it with unimaginative noise and screaming...) argh. Anyway, not recommended.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Several strong tracks, but more merely so-so, February 6, 2002

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Killer Shrike (San Diego, Ca United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blackest Album 2: Tribute to Metallica (Audio CD)

As the subject line says, there are some very good tracks on this disk, but the weaker tracks hurt the albums rating on average.

The Physical Attraction cover of Creeping Death is pretty good, as is the Apoptygma Berzerk cover of Fade to Black (one of my fave Metallica songs BTW), and the funky Innocent Blood cover of Enter Sandman is trippy take for the open-minded (but sure to be reviled by the more prosaic). Other notables are the mellow Tennis cover of Low Mand Lyric (although, it is a departure for sure), and Dreadline's Until it Sleeps.

Still, its a pretty solid CD, with no clear losers. If the rating system allowed 3.5, I would go with a soild 3.5 rating. However, its clearly not a '4' so thus the 3 star rating.....

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not Really Metallica, but very fine indeed, November 4, 2001

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Unholy Roller (Fear zone, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blackest Album 2: Tribute to Metallica (Audio CD)

~This one is for industrial music fans everywhere. The Sandoski files have a great mood for Unfogiven and Apoptygma Beserk takes Fade To Black to a techo-realm. This is a great party CD. I put it in a club, and the people went nuts!! Metallica fans and Techo-freaks alike will definatly enjoy this one. But, this is no Justice for all, or Black album. it is not Metallica, but it lets these new Industrial bands leap onto the scean.
Metallica may have sold out, but they didn't let some Cleopatra~~ bands get a hold of their music. I doubt if metallica would let Electic Hellfire club do Enter Sandman, or a Justice for them all.
One negative keeps this from acheving a full five stars and it the same thing that dogs most Cleo bands, some bands you have to crank it way up just to caught a hint of the vocals, but this has been seen in the AC/DC tribute and the Smashing Pumkins Tribute. But there are those bands that totally do it right, so it still gets four stars.~