METALLICA

Release Year: 2012
Artist Origin: USA
Style: expressive energetic aggressive thrash metal

four previously unreleased tracks from Death Magnetic sessions of 2007-2008 amount to another half-hour of feverish Bay Area thrash, sounding exactly like the album itself, without any unnecessary attempt to prove a point - at the same time, they offer an opportunity to wonder which songs were actually more deserving of a place on the full-length; modern perspective is as clear as day, yet the effort, energy and attitude prove that these four old dogs still have plenty of gunpowder left from their glory days, and at times even manage to recapture long-familiar tension that full-length does not always sustain to the very end, most notably within Rebel of Babylon and Hate Train, unquestionably the strongest moments of this EP, making for a short yet fully worthwhile continuation of the main course