Tag: metal
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Lou Reed & Metallica – Lulu (2011)
The biggest clue about the direction of this collaboration is the billing: Lou Reed comes first. What you have here is an unholy mess, two great artists failing to find a middle ground that suits both their sounds. Where the goal would be symbiosis, a burgeoning brilliance, a la Damo Suzuki going apeshit over a…
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Metallica – Death Magnetic (2008)
For a bunch of men in their forties (apart from Trujillo, who still isn’t exactly a teenager) to revisit their roots in such a vivid, technically demanding, and utterly manic manner, to erase over twenty years of their back catalogue and jump straight back into their prime, they manage to sound as important, world dominating…