Stereo Warning: Metallica plays new song for record label

The release of Metallica's new album is getting closer and closer.

If you're a fan, this has got to be good news: the boys have brought a finished song to their record label, Warner and played it for the execs. Read after the break to find out what the label thought...

Yes, the good news continues: label sources tell Stereo Warning that the song was "heavy" and "brutal" but also "punkish." I don't know about you, but to us that sounds kinda like "Ride The Lightning." Can anyone say "Creeping Death"? One can only hope, right?

In related news, you may have already heard that Amazon.com jumped the gun and posted on their website that you can now preorder the new album and that it will be delivered on Oct. 28. The band has not responded to this, but it does seem curious that Amazon later took down that preorder page. You can still see it cached by Google if you go here http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:JXN57e6lCeEJ:www.amazon.com/2008-Release-TBD-Metallica/dp/B0017I1FQ2+metallica+amazon+october&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=7 or if you search for "metallica amazon october" in Google. Then again, once upon a time you also could preorder Axl's "Chinese Democracy" on Amazon, so who knows how on the ball or not these guys are...