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LONDON - METALLICA GO SLOW AGAIN

Remember a little while back we told you about the version of Ride The Lightning that some genius had ripped at the wrong speed on one of those USB turntables? No? Well, we had forgotten all about it too to be honest. Until our buddy Anthony Bartkewicz sent us an excited email saying that doing the same thing to Master Of Puppets and Kill 'Em All had led to his "most concentrated Metallica listening period since about 1990." This didn't exactly get us rushing to download, seeing as the concept of a "listening period" is inextricably linked to USB turntable ownership, and that's not all that appealing. But Anthony knows his stuff and promised us that the 33 rpm versions "sound like Hetfield grew a pair and everyone else had been listening to a ton of Bolt Thrower." So we gave them a go and guess what? Anthony's right! Thanks guy.