Metallica - Death Magnetic, is it gonna be all it's hyped up to be?

The 12 year old in me always gets drawn to Metallica, constantly checking out what's going on. Do they deserve this attention? On recent efforts, no not really, but the pre 90's Metallica was so immense, that I somehow can never accept that Metallica are through. I know there's 1 good album left in them, St Anger seemed from early reviews to be just that, but we all know how that turned out.

Then they announced a new album, with working song titles like Flamingo, they say it's the norm for them to have tounge in cheek titles, somehow i don't see Seek and Destroy ever being called Penguin. Then there's mission Metallica, there's some good sounding stuff mostly when Kirk's involved but there's also some weird stuff, there's also the two vids on youtube, Death is not the end and Vulturus. I think DINTE will be on the album and from the vids it seems to be pretty close to the live version from 2 years ago. I hope for Metallica's sake that it will be the worst song on the album. Unfortunately it probably won't.

Metallica have track record of dissapointments and somehow they always get another chance (it's those damn 12 year olds I mentioned earlier) but all the dissapointments have been produced by Bob Rock. Bob Rock's been replaced by Rick Rubin (the Slayer guy) Some of that Kirk stuff i mentioned earlier has Slayer feel to it.

As Death Magnetic approches we can only speculate, but i think it will be a step in the right direction. With the hope remaining that one day there will be another Kill em All!