Metallica - Death Magnetic [2008] [PROMO]

Artist: Metallica Album: Death Magnetic Release Date: September 12, 2008 Record Label: Warner Bros., Mercury, Sony Japan Genre: Metal/Thrash Source: PROMO CD Bitrate: 320 Kbps (VBR) Encoder: AAC Codec: Nero Digital Audio AAC Codec Size of Release: 192 MB Format: AAC/MP4 Channels Stereo [44100 HZ/16 bit] Ripped by: UnisonBand Included: All Tracks [in MP4 format] and Artwork Tags included in each MP4: Artist, Album, Track Name, Track Number, Year, Album Artwork Track Lists: 1. "That Was Just Your Life" – 7:08 2. "The End of the Line" – 7:52 3. "Broken, Beat & Scarred" – 6:25 4. "The Day That Never Comes" – 7:56 5. "All Nightmare Long" – 7:57 6. "Cyanide" – 6:39 7. "The Unforgiven III" – 7:46 8. "The Judas Kiss" – 8:00 9. "Suicide & Redemption" – 9:57 10. "My Apocalypse" – 5:01 Personnel: * James Hetfield – lead vocals, rhythm guitar * Kirk Hammett – lead guitar, backing vocals * Robert Trujillo – bass guitar, backing vocals * Lars Ulrich – drums, percussion Production: * Rick Rubin – producer * Greg Fidelman – mixing * Ted Jensen – mastering Album Summary: Death Magnetic is the upcoming ninth studio album by American heavy metal band Metallica. It is scheduled for release on September 12, 2008 by Warner Bros. Records. The album will be the band's first to feature current bassist Robert Trujillo, and the first to be produced by Rick Rubin. Death Magnetic also marks the first time in the band's history in which all band members contributed to each song on an album. It will be their first studio album released through Warner Bros., although they still remain with Warner Music Group, which also owns Elektra Records, the band's previous label. Since May 12, 2008 (2008-05-12), the album has been heavily promoted on its specially dedicated website, entitled Mission: Metallica, which features daily updates of exclusive, behind-the-scenes sneak previews with photos and video clips from the studio. The original logo used by the band, which had been discontinued following the 1993 release Live Shit: Binge & Purge in favor of more modernized band logos, made its return on Death Magnetic. Info About My Releases: The LAME codec will never be used by me on any release; it is outdated, especially when compared to such a great codec such as the Nero Digital Audio Codec. It is known for ultra-high compression ratios that blow LAME away...for example, an AAC file at 128 kbps will be of higher quality than a MP3 at 192 kbps. I encode all songs at a VBR [Variable Bit Rate] at the quality level Q=0.79 and the quality definitely can be heard by any audio lover. Turn it up as loud as the CD; you will hear no distortion like with an MP3. Also, each track is tagged by me personally, and pre-organized for you so there is no mess to clean up with the tags. Just add the files to your favorite music player, and hit play. Or go play them in your car from you iPod or Zune player and impress your friends. After a few UnisonBand releases you will never look for a MP3 release again! Enjoy, and remember Release-Lounge RG=Quality! Final Words: This album rocks, there is no question. However this is a rip of the PROMO Disc, which is rumored to lack a certain production value on the final mastering process. The sound quality is very rough, but this is the way it is suppose to be. If the retail release has better sound quality, I will release that one as well, but if it is the same we will know that this was that sound Metallica was going for on the album. Tracked By: http://tpb.tracker.thepiratebay.se:80/announce http://bandit.ukb-kvcd.com:5600/announce Info Hash: 3CE850775292E11412165CA4A44F42307DE49896

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expometty (2008-09-09)

Do not download, confirmed this is the same transcoded version of the 192kbps leak.
The sound exactly the same and the jpg covers are fake the front and cd pictures are made from wallpapers from metallica.com and the back cover is the biggest give away as the barcode is blank, the fonts of the song and the weak amature design.
Plus it says "written and composed by" where it's supposed to say "Produced by" like every other back cover of every Metallica cd ever released.

unisonband (2008-09-09)

This is from the PROMO, not retail...
Here is some verification:
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EAC extraction logfile from 6. September 2008, 19:36 for CD
Metallica / Death Magnetic
Used drive : HL-DT-STDVD-ROM GDR8162B Adapter: 1 ID: 1
Read mode : Secure with NO C2, accurate stream, disable cache
Read offset correction : 0
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Used output format : Internal WAV Routines
44.100 Hz; 16 Bit; Stereo
Other options :
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Installed external ASPI interface
Range status and errors
Selected range
Filename E:\Music\MetallicA - Death Magnetic (2008)\Metallica - Death Magnetic.wav
Peak level 100.0 %
Range quality 100.0 %
CRC EAA8A305
Copy OK
No errors occured
End of status report
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The sound quality is the same as the MP3's because it is the same source...hopefully the retail will have better quality.

expometty (2008-09-09)

DjUtu That's the only way I can tell now, they all sound pretty much the same but little things like the fake artwork is what gives away scams like this now.
But if you say this one is all right and really is 320kbps then I'm getting it cause it would be an upgrade from the IHATEP2P version, yeah?

expometty (2008-09-09)

Actually this one here does have the same proof of the link you posted, but in addition to the scam covers I mentioned in my first post, that's what got me suspecious cause the pictures are so fake and someone used them on their fake transcode @ mininova the other day.

RodrigollicA (2008-09-10)

That "Verification" info was taken from a torrent posted at demonoid

unisonband (2008-09-10)

"That "Verification" info was taken from a torrent posted at demonoid "
I used the Lossless rip posted at Demonoid, which is why I marked it [PROMO], and the scans were not done by me, they were included in the Lossless rip. I did not realize they were fake, I'm just an encoder! Don't shoot the messenger if the source was fake, I thought it was real, even Audio Checker said at 100% probability that the Lossless came from a CDDA.

oneway23 (2008-09-11)

The loudness wars have destroyed this album. Please sign this petition to request that Warner remix/remaster this album so as the full sonic quality and actual dynamics can replace layers of distortion and brick-wall over-compression.

unisonband (2008-09-12)

Retail rip here: