Metallica Playing at the O2 September 15th
 

I managed to bag myself 2 tickets for this event , they are doing a gig at the O2 to celebrate the release of the new Album , did anyone else manage to get tickets ?

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Nope. Like the Album but my mosh pit days are behind me.

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Ooooh , you`ve heard the new album then ?

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Yes. Apart from "Unforgiven III" - a very welcome and long overdue return to what they're best at.

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Ah well , Unforgiven was a good song but I didn`t think much of Unforgiven II so III will probably be of small interest to me . Really liked St.Anger for the way they went about it but Load and Re-Load are albums I just blot from my mind and rarely listen to . Metallica was the first band I ever saw on the "Justice" tour and they blew me away , I last saw them on the Re-Load tour in Earl`s Court and was horrified by their performance , hopefully this gig will restore my faith and that buzz I got from seeing them Live .

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IIRC I was introduced to them in 1990 by an old (my age then) stoner at my local. He lent me the back catalogue of old stuff.

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How can you prefer St Anger to any of their other stuff!? Anyway, I have heard one song off Death Magnetic, and it seemed much better than before, but I think not very good still. I dunno why, just didn't speak to me. I think I don't like James' vocals anymore :(.

Re: Metallica Playing at the O2 September 15th
 

I entered a comp on Amazon for tickets to a 'secret gig' on September 15th???

Not very secret if its at the O2...but there is nothing on the O2 website about it?

Where'd you get tickets?

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The album's downloadable from various places but it probably comes with a little uploaded Lars Ulrich who'll tell you off for being a thief, then call the police :-D

I heard Cyanide and The Day That Never Comes at Reading, they were both pretty decent... TDTNC was a bit of a mess, too many directions, but still interesting. Cyanide had a big groove thing going on that Metallica don't usually have, but still very Metallica.

Actually, I thought they were better in a lot of ways than I've ever seen them, they're not afraid to mess with the songs now and a lot of the older ones had some real differences, gave them a lot of life and energy back. Kirk's solos were really different too, you could see him pushing himself (making mistakes, you don't see that often) and trying new styles. I liked Jason Newstead but I think Trujillo's making a real difference, which Jason was never really allowed to. Certainly a better time to see them than 5 years ago.

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I preferred St.Anger over the Load albums , to be honest my fave of the lot was "And Justice for all" , learnt every song and solo from that album on guitar and spent many an hour with it :smt040