Sunday, September 14, 2008

Magnetic Death Demos! or Death Magnetic Demos

I have always liked listening to demos of songs. I think a demo of a song often is comparable to a rough draft when writing anything. Rough drafts often capture the writer's original spirit that is then refocused and refined and revisited countless times until you end up with the final product. With Metallica, their demos have often don't have lyrics or different lyrics than what ends up on the official version of the song. The demos for "And Justice for All" are like that. So, courtesey of YouTube, I came across a Blabbermouth.net news item that linked out to 10 videos of the demos for Metallica's "Death Magnetic" release. However, only 2 of them work!?!

Update: 10:35 PM - none of them now work... :<)


So I had to go and find this:




And this:




There was also a post that includes this quote from Dream Theater drummer Mike Portnoy:

"'Death Magnetic' is HANDS DOWN the best METALLICA album in 20 years. This is the CD I've been waiting for them to make since '…And Justice For All'. And thumbs up to them for doing the first REAL METALLICA instrumental in 20 years since 'To Live Is To Die' (if you don't count DREAM THEATER's 'Stream of Consciousness'). Welcome back, boys."




On the same page, there was a video of Dream Theater playing "Master of Puppets" live in Chicago:










Then I decided, "That's enough Metallica." How about another heavy band that I like? Lamb of God came to mind:









And this is the song played by Lamb of God:









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