This is by far Metallica's worst CD. The song quality dropped even from the less than interesting Re-Load CD. And who allowed such poor production value to even go out the door? I mean, was everyone asleep on this one? Your name can only get you so far and then you actually have to show some talent or your fans will not follow you anymore. Metallica can do much better than this especially after the long time between CD's. Metallica, you got nothing to worry about in regards to people downling your "music". It isn't worth it.