So should sound modern metal !!!

"The Blackening" compare with "Master of Puppets" is perhaps leaning a little far out of the window, but ultimately you will also the first to actually assess in a few years. It is clear that Rob Flynn and his men here is a really great album succeeded!

Production is usual first class. The songs combine modern Riffatacken with magnificent oldschool solos and all the angry hardness flashes sporadically even really beautiful melodies. That here several times the 10 minute limit is exceeded, is not disadvantageous. In particular, the opener has due to the diversity of the play feel, it would be much shorter.
My personal highlights are "slanderous" and "Halo".
Also the bonus track "Battery" knows how to please and you get an idea of ​​how it could sound when Lars Ulrich would not only be a great personality, but also a great drummer. ;-)

I really hope fervently that the great role models Metallica manages an even similar fun-giving union!