Customer Reviews

Frantic 1

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Metallica have been sounding a little old and tired live lately. To me, they sound like they're just going through the motions, but in all honesty can you blame them? After selling a kagillion records and making ten bazillion dollars what else is left for them to do but churn out more tosh for the legions of diehard fans to shell out their hard-earned dollar on.

Blackened contains none of the fire and righteous anger from its halcyon days. Lars' drums that once pounded through the very gates of hell themselves now sound like an old organ grinder's monkey slamming on a cake tin. The vocals from the new boy Rob are weak and unispired and James himself forgets the lyrics in places. The mixing is poor and the production overall sounds like a mediocre fan recording. Fact is - I've heard better sounding bootlegs than this.

Harvester of sorrow? Come on guys, I mean how many more times are you gonna commit this to tape? Surely you could have given us something a little more interesting to listen to. How about a live version of Crash Course In Brain Surgery or Ride The Lightning or even (in keeping with the "...And Justice For All" theme) a ripping version of Shortest Straw?

The only redeeming factor to this CD is the enhanced video of the title track. The video is pretty good, your typical alcohol and sex fuelled drug binge ending with the obligatory car crash.
If not for this redeeming factor I would have been forced to give this CD the lowly rating of 1.

If you have no access to downloading music and you want some great Metallica then by all means buy this album. It's got a great song and two great live tracks. But for 12 dollars which is the price of one album I'd want a lot more. I agree with the other reviewers in that we can only see so many versions of Blackened and Harvestor of Sorrow. I have a bunch of Metallica bootlegs that I got off the interent and almost all of them have these two tracks on it. I have almost no live tracks from St. Anger and it woulda been great to have some on this disc.

Tracks:

1. Frantic (Original Version)
2. Blackened (Live version)
3. Harvester of Sorrow (Live Version)
4. Frantic (Music Video)

It is a good disc but for the price and how easy getting these live tracks I'd say get it if you are a diehard but save your money for a better set.

This cd is really a must for true metallica fans!! The 2 live songs are really good! For myself, it's a gift to have Blackened in it's live form from the 2003 tour! Metallica is still a great live band and will be for I hope at least 15 or 20 years!

metallica is definitely THE BEST metal band in the world !
even jason is missing, they are still at the top. long live !!!!

This captures Blackened live. Of course the song is weaker without the backing vocals of Newstead. However, the sound quality is excellent. I thought the version of Harvester was cool but there are a few mistakes in the song but hey we are not perfect and neither is metallica. All in all a worthy buy, but you might want to wait for the more expensive ep that always releases later with all the singles combined on one. I, however, could not wait to get a taste of the "new" Metallica. If you are collecting the live singles this is a great addition to your collection and if you are a die hard fan like I am this has been a long time in the making. Now if only they would put Fight Fire with Fire live as a B-side I could die happy. I HOPE THEY CONTINUE TO PUT OUT THEIR LIVE SONG B-SIDES AS METALLICA IS BETTER LIVE. I trade live recordings with fans, I DO NOT SELL OR TRADE COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL IF INTERESTED IN SELLING OR BUYING I AM NOT INTERESTED. If you want to trade live shows email me at eternalnight@msn.com