This story's a bit of a mess. We know some UK bloggers were invited to listen to an "unmixed" demo of the new Metallica album and weren't required to sign any non-disclosure agreements or stick to an embargo regarding what they heard. Which meant they could all, quite legally, tell the world all about it on their blogs. So sites like The Quietus ran with reviews (cached version here) - only to get told to take them down shortly afterwards. This has, predictably enough, turned into a mammoth Metallica HATE-FEST with everyone blaming the put-upon band for trying to break the internet again...