text: one more five year chunk of consistent preparations and priorities' revision is eventually crowned by a significant return to serious business: unlike its controversial predecessor, roaring album sounds much more sincere and closer to the roots, the type of Metallica that has been mesmerizing the world in their heyday; ten intricate, quite lengthy, yet catchy and hard-hitting compositions bring back elements of intensity and addictive anger into the music that earlier seemed too watered down, attracting attention of even those who demand "old stuff only"; super jewel box edition with a cut-out booklet, shaping a 3D image of coffin on its first ten pages
  Tags: metallica, death magnetic, energetic thrash metal, james hetfield, lars ulrich, kirk hammett, robert trujillo, that was just your life, the end of the line, broken beat and scarred, the day that never comes, all nightmare long, cyanide, the unforgiven iii, the judas kiss, suicide and redemption, my apocalypse, 2008, vertigo, universal, super jewel box