Ok so this is basically just me commenting on the latest Metallica show I went to. Dear God, have they ever still got it. The show was fucking unbelievable. I wont cite details of the stage set-up or anything because I don't want to ruin it for people who may still see them, but it's very cool. I was at the TD BankNorth Garden show in Boston last week and it was so good. I can't tell you how good it feels to see them live, and doing well again. They are truly like a different band than they were from 1995-2002. They seem younger, tighter, more energized, and just all around better. I don't love the new album, but I do like it and the new songs actually sound better live. Metallica really look like a young band again (except lars, but he still plays fast and drops a lot of f-bombs so it's fine). It made me happy because the feel of the show was like that of 20-year olds playing...no 45 year olds. James' voice sounded great...really great, even at the end of a 2.5 hour setlist when my own vocal chords were shredded. Furthermore he still is the ultimate in front-man technology: jumping around, machine-gun riffing, and singing all at once. Plus, as an added bonus, he's rockin' a mohawk now. I don't know why I thought that was so cool but when I realized it I fucking loved it. Maybe because he's paying homage to the punk part of his influence. Either way, it got me even more stoked. As for the guitars, it was business as usuall: twin autocannons of sound. The drums were sick, great sound and so fucking heavy and loud that you not only heard them but felt them. Every time Lars hit the Bass drums it literally-LITERALLY-shook a concrete and steel stadium like an earthquake. And the bass...well...we know how Metallica is with the bass. Or do we???
Rob's bass is LOUD- really fucking LOUD and it sounds sick. He has a great stage presence. At one point he was doing a sick solo and starts chasing the other band members around with is crab-walk...it's tough to laugh and head bang.
Anyway, I think you get the point, the show was unbelievable, and I urge anyone who has the chance to try and see them; so rewarding for having faith in the band. Nobody ever sounds as good live as Metallica, and nobody can reproduce what they do in the studio better.
Also, as a last note. Machine Head and The Sword were both really really sick as well. I would see either band again in a heart-beat.
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