Metallica's Blackened + Bass
As you probably know if you are or were at any point a Metallica fan, Metallica turned Jason Newstead’s bass way the hell down in the mix on the entire …And Justice for All album. Well, someone grabbed the separate tracks from Rock Band and re-mixed the song with proper bass. The result is just awesome. I’d love to get a higher quality version of this if anyone finds one.
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Wow. I can’t believe the difference. It’s worlds better!
really? i think its worse.
Apparently so did Metallica. I think you and they are both nuts.
That whole deal was one of the factors in me finally saying “fuck it” and giving up on that band and why I never bothered with And Justice despite my obsessive love of the first 3 records. I was super psyched that they had hired him since his previous band was phenomenal as well. Then when I heard stuff off that album I realized they fucked up a good thing. Turns out it would only get worse.
Y’know, I’m listening to Blackened now after having listened to the + Bass version and I never realized just how much they turned down the bass. I mean, it’s not even here! They just boosted the bass on the guitars. Newstead might as well not be on the album!
Shit, they added bass to Harvester of Sorrow and Shortest Straw and they both sound so good.
ooooooOooo! BILL! When you listen, verify that it’s actually remixed (from Rock Band?) and not just remastered. THere’s a lot of recordings out there that just boost all the bass frequencies and, yeah, you can hear Newstead better, but it also makes the guitars and drums too bassy.
It could also be the recording I’ve heard about where some dude re-recorded all of Newstead’s bass.
Either way… upload to FTP?
The torrent is being crappy. It stopped downloading.
There are bigger crimes on that LP,ladies and gentlemen i give you ….Lars Ulrichs’ ridiculous drum sound. I love Metallica but that drum sound wrecks it for me.As for the bass,it’s now way too loud.Only Funkadelic and James Brown can rock nice loud bass. As a bass player for 20 years it sounds like overkill. There’s gotta be a happy medium. Plus, Jason Newstead was in Flotsam And Jetsam and they were beyond terrible.
FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT.
Flotsam and Jetsam’s first album fucking rules. Metallica should have broken up when Cliff died and formed a new band.
Yeah, I was pretty much talking about that first album since like a lot of metal bands from that era I didn’t really follow much past that.
newstead was only on the first F&J album. the band turned to shit over the years, but so did metallica. too much guitar wanking on and justice for all anyway.