Album · Metallica
Death Magnetic by Metallica
Death Magnetic is an album by Metallica, released in 2008. 4 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 30 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “The Day That Never Comes”, on 15 lists with a best position of #8.
Death Magnetic, Metallica's ninth album, landed in September 2008 on Warner Bros. in the States and Vertigo everywhere else, and it's the sound of a band remembering what the pit felt like. After the rough detour of St. Anger, Rick Rubin took over production from longtime partner Bob Rock, with James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich co-producing, and the sessions ran across Los Angeles County studios from March 2007 to May 2008. It was the first Metallica record with Robert Trujillo on bass.
The payoff is a return to thrash: long, knotty songs, standard tuning, and Kirk Hammett and Hetfield trading solos like it was the mid-'80s again. "Suicide & Redemption" is their first full instrumental since "Orion". Critics called it a comeback, though plenty griped that the mix was squashed to within an inch of its life in the loudness war. It still made Metallica the first band to score five straight number-one studio albums on the Billboard 200, and it won 3 Grammys, among them Best Metal Performance for "My Apocalypse".
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Death Magnetic on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Day That Never Comes | 15 | #8 | – | 2008–2009 | |
| 2 | Cyanide | 8 | #42 | – | 2008–2009 | |
| 3 | All Nightmare Long | 5 | #24 | – | 2009–2013 | |
| 4 | Broken, Beat & Scarred | 2 | #56 | – | 2009 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.