Gone Platinum

It’s been just six weeks since legendary thrash metal band Metallica released their new CD Death Magnetic, and it has already gone platinum. The album sold 490,000 copies in the first three days on the shelves. It debuted at number one on the Billboard top 200, and is the bands fifth album to top the charts. They also topped charts in many other countries like Canada and the U.K. This breaks their previous tie for first with U2, Dave Matthews Band, and The Beatles, who have four albums at the number one spot. Now this album isn’t exactly Master of Puppets, but it does refer back to their early days in the 80’s. They’ve gone back to what made them famous in the first place, they went back to basics. You could also say that lead guitarist Kirk Hammett is getting revenge on this album. In the previous St. Anger drummer Lars Ulrich and producer Bob Rock told Hammett that guitar solos were dead. But in this album we can see they’re much alive. We haven’t seen Hammett play this way in years, showing everyone, including Lars that guitar solos are a huge part of Metallica’s success. I think Metallica really deserves this all in all. They’re one of the most influential bands of all time, pounding out some of the best metal albums in history. Without Metallica you wouldn’t have bands like Bullet for My Valentine or Black Tide. And they show their dominance once again with Death Magnetic.