Metallica's Cyanide: studio version now streaming

By Chris Vinnicombe
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Here's that artwork again...we're still not overly enamoured with it
Here's that artwork again...we're still not overly enamoured with it

The studio version of Metallica's Death Magnetic cut Cyanide is now available to stream online.

First aired at Ozzfest on 9 August, several days later we revealed that a soundboard-quality live recording of the track had been leaked.

You can stream the track, which is the sixth on Death Magnetic, either here on Metallica.com or here on YouTube. To our ears, the audio quality is better on YouTube.

Although our roving reporter at the Death Magnetic album playback felt that this was one of the weaker tracks on the record, to our ears it still represents a huge improvement on anything the band have done since 1991's eponymous 'Black Album'.

Roll on Friday 12 September when Death Magnetic is released worldwide via both conventional retail channels and the Guitar Hero III: Legends Of Rock video game.

Chris Vinnicombe

Chris Vinnicombe worked with us here on the MusicRadar team from the site's initial launch way back in 2007, and also contributed to Guitarist magazine as Features Editor until 2014, as well as Total Guitar magazine, amongst others. These days he can be found at Gibson Guitars, where he is editor-in-chief.