Between 2003 and 2008 Metallifans around the world including myself eagerly awaited what invariably would've been a better album than the disastrous St. Anger. And indeed it was. The snare drum got taken down a peg, the songs were better written, and guitar solos once more made their return. And they brought back the traditional Metallica logo, albeit in computer generated form. On the whole, 2008's Death Magnetic is a good album, but not like "Justice" was; I don't listen to it nearly as much as their eighties and early nineties stuff, and perhaps this is due to the crappy sound quality, the exceedingly long song durations (which worked better on previous albums) or the fact they've still retained the bouncing grooves, all of which hold this record back from greater recognition. The highlights of this album? "The Day That Never Comes", "All Nightmare Long", "Cyanide" and the instrumental "Suicide & Redemption", "The Judas Kiss" and "My Apocalypse." And the dud? "The Unforgiven III." This version is, in my opinion, far inferior to the previous two. B+
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