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Last week Metallica released their 9th(?) studio album. I don't know if St. Anger really counts since they did practically zero production on it (Lars' snare sound??). Anyways, Death Magnetic was sounding like it was going to be the return of Metallica. Was it though? If you've heard the album then I'm sure you've already got your opinion. Mine was mixed. I thought that I'd write out my reactions to the songs as I listened to them so that's what I did and that's what I've posted here. When I did this I had already heard the first 6 or 7 tracks at least in part so some of the riffs and parts had grown on me and others were annoying me more than they did the first time I heard them.

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It's one of those things that you hate, but you have no control over and in a way you know that they kinda have to do it to keep their pants on to compensate for dropped music sales since the digital music uprising. Still though, they come off as a little more than greedy with their definition of "performance" as well as the royalty rate hike for Internet based radio stations. You have to ask, "when will it be enough?" Will they eventually make it so you can't play music in your own home loud enough to where your neighbors can hear it as well? I'm fuzzy on the details, but I'm pretty sure it's already against their policies for a store owner to play music they have purchased for themselves through the store's sound system without paying the RIAA royalty fees per song performance. Click through for more.