Brainwashed wrote:are the poster boys for the RIAA
Strange, I'm sure I saw a couple of threads the other day where Devin got upset about people downloading his music.
Metallica just got some pretty bad advice from people within the RIAA /5years ago/
They've said how much they regret the backlash but you have to understand that they thought they were helping fellow musicians. It was unfortunate that the recording industry has taken 5 years to get any semblance of a reasonable online model for distribution. They fucked up, Metallica fucked up, but to not like Metallica because of that is ridiculous.
Hate Stanger (I do) for being a glued together, badly produced muddle of psychiatrist skewed rubbish, and pity the band for appearing in a film showing them falling apart, but they still have written some of the best metal in history.
I still hold out hope that they'll come back. I just wish they wouldn't listen to their loudest "fans" who dumped on them when Load & Reload came out (which contained some of their most original material) & try to recreate their classic thrash albums - Megadeth & Slayer are more than capable of living in a timewarp, Metallica are best when they're ignoring what's popular (or what people expect of them)
Blimey, that was a waffle. I think they should self produce, and get a decent engineer, like Devin, or Andy Sneap or Steve Wilson.