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A Juggernaut Of Riffs

Taken from this year’s ‘Death Magnetic’ album, ‘All Nightmare Long’ is a mind boggling tsunami of finger wizardry to devour in a state of brutally confused bliss. With an exhausting juggernaut of riffs heralding their approach, ‘All Nightmare Long’ is Metallica at their finger defying best. From the steady beats that teasingly hint at a gentle introduction, ‘All Nightmare Long’ explodes in a rampage of raging riffs, blasted around James Hetfield’s formidable voice that threatens to tear you from this life and hurl your into the next. Eight minutes of galloping riffs, fierce beats and scathingly intense vocals ensue as the four kings of the apocalypse pound home to all those doubters that they still lead the metal charge, all whilst they fling you from pillar to post, diverting their direction with each and every fresh blast of manic guitars and crashing drums until you are left in a crumpled heap of sheer satisfaction.