Metallica rocks the Garden with power and passion
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- Metallica rocks the Garden with power and passion
- Metallica embodies esprit de corpse at Wachovia Center
- Eagles of Death Metal
Metallica rocks the Garden with power and passion
Boston Globe United States
Robert Trujillo his bass slung low stalked about as if wading through a swamp. The spotlight narrowed on lead guitarist Kirk Hammett every time he launched into a dizzying solo that prompted countless men to unleash their inner (air) guitar hero. The spectacle wasn’t just limited to the music. Stage lights blared from giant coffin-shaped fixtures overhead a salute to the cover of “Death Magnetic” and inflated balls emblazoned with “Metallica” rained down on the audience during the closing “Seek and Destroy. “The night began with two openers that represented polar opposites of metal’s spectrum. Machine Head played almost comically self-aware metal from lead singer Robb Flynn’s screeching squall to his insistence that “We want to see everybody in here head-banging like it was 1986. “Meanwhile the Sword offered clean straight-ahead metal reminiscent of early Black Sabbath.
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Metallica embodies esprit de corpse at Wachovia Center
Philadelphia Inquirer PA
Scurrying out onto the darkened stage like black-clad ninjas illuminated by a two-story-high mesh of lasers Metallica launched into the new "That Was Just Your Life" with the conviction of men who have learned the hard way that no one here gets out alive. Sounding at times like a B-52 trapped in the belly of an oil tanker they dug deep into their hairier scarier ’80s catalog unleashing the punishing roar of "Creeping Death" and "Ride the Lightning. " Then they dialed back the heaviness for songs like "The Unforgiven" and "Nothing Else Matters" that have helped make them the U2 of metal. The band seemed eager to connect with the crowd – "Did you miss us?" asked frontman James Hetfield his hair shorn into a boyish shock of blond – and the tour’s unique staging seems designed to minimize the distance between artists and audience. The outsized stage took up most of the floor of the Wachovia with the general-admission crowd surrounding it. There was no set upstage or downstage. Instead microphones ringed the perimeter of the stage and band members constantly shuffled from this side to that anchored by drummer Lars Ulrich positioned dead center on a rotating riser.
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Eagles of Death Metal
PopMatters IL
Throw in a well-timed tribal breakdown and – hey presto – you’ve got a shoo-in for Guitar Hero 4. So it goes that aside from being completely disposable Heart n isn’t quite a bad album. It’s just that the recklessness of Eagles of Death Metal’s brand of party music is now too much of a throwback to past decades. While the keener glam of our beloved Steven Patrick Morrissey has always acknowledged some kind of imminent threat theirs is simply too irresponsible for our times. The fact of the matter is that these days the people get down to the sound of gunshots ruminations on insanity or – at their most lighthearted – reflections on casual bi-curiosity. If anyone wants to hear a song about self-gratification the more iconic tributes of folks like Billy Idol or Cyndi Lauper are more likely to fulfill that urge. After all those walking CFC clouds were singing from eras in which a certain amount of flagrant irresponsibility was par for the course.