Metallica Death Magnetic (2 Lp's) 2LP standard Gatefold Jacket the band's fourth album delivers

the band's fourth album delivers on the hooky hard rock promise of Meliora by doubling down on the '70s and '80s rock tropes that informed it

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Metallica Death Magnetic (2 Lp's) 2LP standard Gatefold Jacket the band's fourth album deliversThe world at large got a fly on the wall view of the creation of Metallica's 2003 album, ST. ANGER, via the documentary SOME KIND OF MONSTER, so we know they consciously tried to keep things contemporary at that time by avoiding fleet fingered solos and eschewing the sound of the "old" Metallica. If that hoary old term "return to form" ever applied to a rock album, though, it's ANGER's follow up, DEATH MAGNETIC. In the five years between the two