Metallica has announced the next single to come of their latest album Death Magnetic will be "All Nightmare Long". I really enjoy this song, even though it's in drop D tuning which isn't my favorite, it works with this song. It's probably one of the hardest song off the new CD, or even since 1988's "...And Justice For All", and should be successful. It will be a digital download but I guess it will come with a three disc set, including a video, which I can't wait for. I've seen other Metallica videos and they can be pretty cool, so you can imagine a video about nightmares. I've heard a lot of people sat that this was their favorite track off the new album as well.
Even though I'm not the biggest fan of the Black Album, All Nightmare Long sounds somewhat similar to the song Enter Sandman which was an extemely successful song from that album. Especially the opening hypnotic riff. It's just like Metallica to start out with and acoustic opening, then kick it into high gear with distrotion, and this song does it very well.
This song also rocks in a lot of different ways, you could almost call it Progressive, much like ...And Justice For All. You start out enjoying the sounds of the acoustic begining, then suddenly you want to head bang. Then it changes again, you're tapping your feet, then you go back into a state of agression. This song rocks on many different levels. It's almost like they're taking ideas from their glory days in the eighties and putting a new twist on them. I'd give the song a 4/5 for a rating.
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