“Landmine - taken my arms, taken my legs, taken my sight, taken my hearing, left me with life in hell.”
No laughs there then.
“See your mother put to death, see your mother die.”
No laughs there either (for most). In fact, there are no laughs anywhere on this album, which is unrelentingly harsh and, as one song puts it, blackened, with James Hetfield barking out gruff lyrics about harsh, black things. The music accompanying him isn't heavy in the way some Metallica has been: it thrums rather then pounds, expressing a manic anger and energy that have no particular place to go, like someone locked in a prison cell and beating his fists on the wall. Whether albums like this create moods or complement them is hard to decide, but you’ll probably find that you’ll like it depending on whether or not you sympathesize with the emotion it expresses.
And whether or not you can ignore the bloody guitar solos, which could be swapped from any song to any other song without anyone noticing the difference and don't serve any purpose but to be guitar solos. I hate ’em and I look forward to the day when technology means I can take them off this album.
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This record has so much good material that it's a shame the production is so shoddy. ... more
Song-wise, this is probably Metallica's most sophisticated album, exploring the theme of justice and perversions thereof with a vengeance. "One" is one of their best s...
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Advantages: This album rocks, the artwork rocks and the long tracks rock. Awesome Disadvantages: To Live is to Die only lasts 9.49, They hardly play any of this live.
Aug 12th, 2001
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