Like two nights earlier on Friday at Gillette, Metallica kicked off its unrelenting, heavy metal onslaught with a trio of old school thrash metal tunes. This time around it was “Whiplash” from ...

It’s called “The Lords of Summer,” and it would fit right in on Death Magnetic, which is to say, it’s striving pretty hard to sound like old school Metallica, and not doing a very good job. Sure, the ...