Listened to Death Magnetic yesterday at the gym. It's been a few years since I heard these songs and I quite enjoyed listening to them. The album was a bit better than I remembered. As 'That Was Just Your Life' opens with that steady mid-tempo beat, the last thing you expect is for it to suddenly take off on a high speed double bass pedal celebration of the 80s albums. I remember listening to it for the first time in 2008, my face flush with joy that the old Metallica is back!! Yesterday I almost relived that moment. The first 4 songs are incredibly strong! I'm still not crazy about the 5th track, All Nightmare Long. The title is cheesy as heck and the lyrics are borderline hilarious! There is some serious thrash going on there though. Musically it's fine. But for similar reasons, I'm not a fan of My Apocalypse. I do like Unforgiven III. It gives a nice respite in the middle of the album to all the high speed thrash. I don't remember how the instrumental track goes. Didn't get a chance to listen to it yesterday. So I will finish the album and comment again.