Why do people hate Metallica?

[rhodesbe]

I've listened to more Metallica in the last three days than I did in total when I was younger. The new stuff sounds great to me - Reload, Garage Inc, etc.
I get that Metallica has fallen out of favor for jocking it's fans and 'selling out' or whatever, but some people consider them a shade of Nickleback.

What gives? Why do people hate Metallica?

 

[348]

Because they suck. Not the same way Primus sucks. I mean bad suck.

 

[PUMPKIN]

It's worn out, kinda like back in black....

 

[OliverKlohzoff]

This is exactly why people hate Metallica:

Because they went from this:

[Broken External Image]

To This:

 

[been]

I like their music every once in a while but not too frequently.

 

[Mr10mm]

Great music but they are a-holes now

 

[WalkerBulldog]

Yeah, anything after the Black album pretty much sucks, and St. Anger was the nail in the coffin for me.

Otherwise, I think a lot of people don't like Hetfield's opinions on being able to purchase music digitally.

 

[LightningCrash]

their music lacks clarity and dynamic range and one of their new albums even set a record for compression

http://www.wired.com/listening_post/2008/09/does-metallicas/


they've got some good tunes but that compression just drives me nuts.

 

[Biggsly]

Great music but they are a-holes now

This.

 

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