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[andrewducker]

Metallica Sue Canadian Band over E, F Chords

Metallica are taking legal action against independant Canadian rock band Unfaith over what they feel is unsanctioned usage of two chords the band has been using since 1982 : E and F.

"People are going to get on our case again for this, but try to see it from our point of view just once," stated Metallica's Lars Ulrich. "We're not saying we own those two chords, individually - that would be ridiculous. We're just saying that in that specific order, people have grown to associate E, F with our music."

I rather liked Metallica, up to the Black Album. Sadly, following that they seem to have had problems being at all inspired, and instead fell back on "making albums that sound like Metallica", only not very good.

Comments

[andrewducker]

It really does sound like after the Black Album they had a conversation along the lines of

"So, James, what kind of music do we do?"
"Heavy Metal, Lars"
"And what does that sound like?"
"Listen to this."
"Oh, right. I can do that, no problem."

Whereas before that, it sounded like they were doing the music they liked to make, which happened to fall into the genre "heavy metal"

The article, by the way, is definitely a fake.

[thepaintedone.livejournal.com]

So it is, I should have spotted the dodgy URL first time round :o)

This seems to happen to a lot of innovative bands/musicians. At first they create the trends and everyone else copies them, this was definitely the case with Mettalica up until the Black album, then music styles move on and the band either has to accept its popularity waning, or else try to keep up. Keeping up inevitably involves copying others instead of being the creative ones. Sad, but somewhat inevitable.

What I find ammusing is to listen to the bands and songs that were the epitome of 'heaviness' back when I were a lad, and to realise how tame they seem to sound these days :o)

[andrewducker]

Yeah, the extreme now seems placid.

I remember thinking that Disco Volante was just noise.

...And Just For All still sounds like it was produced in a cardboard box tho.

[nosrialleon.livejournal.com]

I did not know you were hip to Disco Volante!
One of my favorite albums; though I did have to listen to it constantly for about a week until it made sense to me...

[andrewducker]

Yeah, me too. It took a while for my brain to lock onto the patterns hidden in it.

[johnbobshaun.livejournal.com]

But, amazingly, the production on "St Anger" sounds *even worse*. Its horrible.

[allorin.livejournal.com]

Cue.... Def Leppard.

They sounds so heavy to me when I was a kid. D'oh!

[a-pawson.livejournal.com]

It's a fake but quite a few news organisations. seem to have fallen for it.