Metallica - 72 Seasons ALBUM REVIEW

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And now Metallica are back after 6 years with their latest, 72 Seasons. How does it hold up? Is it worth all 72 of those seasons???
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72 Seasons is the eleventh studio album by American heavy metal band Metallica. It was released on April 14, 2023, by their own label Blackened Recordings. 72 Seasons is produced by Greg Fidelman, who produced the band's previous studio album, Hardwired... to Self-Destruct (2016), and is the band's second studio album to be released through Blackened.
Background
In an interview with Australian magazine The Music's official podcast in March 2019, bassist Robert Trujillo said that Metallica had begun jamming on new material for its next studio album. "I'm excited about the next record because I believe it will also be a culmination of the two [previous] records and another journey. There's no shortage of original ideas, that's the beauty of being in this band." He estimated that the album would be released "a lot sooner than the previous two did... this time around I think we'll be able to jump on it a lot quicker and jump in the studio and start working. We've all vowed to get this one going sooner than later."[7]
In an interview with Australian magazine Mixdown the following month, guitarist Kirk Hammett said that the band had tentative plans to enter the studio after the conclusion of its WorldWired Tour in support of Hardwired... to Self-Destruct. He stated, "We're in our third year since Hardwired. Maybe we can get a bit more focus and go into the studio a bit sooner."[8] Having not contributed any writing to Hardwired... to Self-Destruct after accidentally losing his phone containing riff ideas at Copenhagen Airport in 2014,[9][10] Hammett said regarding his ideas for the new album, "I have a ton of material. I've over-compensated, so I'm ready to go anytime."[8]
In April 2020, amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, drummer Lars Ulrich said in an interview with Marc Benioff that Metallica could work on its next studio album while in quarantine.[11] Trujillo told The Vinyl Guide in June that the band was "excited about cultivating new ideas" for its new album. "We communicate every week, which is really great, so we have our connection intact [...] what we've started doing is basically just really concentrating on our home studios and being creative from our homes and navigating through ideas and building on new ideas. And that's where we're at right now". He also said that the band was working towards eventually entering a studio to record the album.[12] In November, Ulrich said in an interview with Phoebe Bridgers for Rolling Stone that the band was "three, four weeks into some pretty serious writing"[13][14] and stated that "It's the heaviest thing, the coolest [...] but all kidding aside, if it wasn't because we thought that the best record was still ahead of us, then why keep doing it?"[15][16][17] He followed up in January 2021 by saying that progress on the album had been "glacial",[18][19] while vocalist/guitarist James Hetfield said in March that "It's either touring or writing, so COVID chose for us [...] but, yeah, [we will release] a bunch of songs. We wrote quite a few songs."[20]
Title
On November 28, 2022, Hetfield commented on the album's title:
72 seasons. The first 18 years of our lives that form our true or false selves. The concept that we were told 'who we are' by our parents. A possible pigeonholing around what kind of personality we are. I think the most interesting part of this is the continued study of those core beliefs and how it affects our perception of the world today. Much of our adult experience is reenactment or reaction to these childhood experiences. Prisoners of childhood or breaking free of those bondages we carry.[21]

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@jameseu4553 Год назад

Hey crash, with all these new releases coming in and out, I hope you’re still taking care of yourself, we don’t want you feeling burnt out

@ngarewyrd Год назад

Those eyes in your shirt graphic were a... choice

@CrashThompson Год назад

Lars is ALWAYS WATCHING. 🤠🤠🤠

@ericksheldon3870 Год назад

@@CrashThompson I JUST NOTICED THAT LMAO

@ElliYeetYT Год назад

5:40 Heck the albums are literally almost the same length with each other if you look closely.

@marcen12 Год назад

HOLY SNAP! And it just barely is.

@Schmiddelwutz2000 Год назад

I have the feeling, many folks don't take the time to really get into a new record anymore. If it doesn't click after the first listening, it is 'boring' or 'meaningless'. Some of my all-time favorite songs and records took me several spins to really appreciate them. Not saying that this is the best record, but you should give it some time. There are definetely some songs that grow on you.

@jeremyc9229 11 месяцев назад

Each time I listen to it, it gets better!

@LovlyHorror Год назад

I figured this would go in the next FIMI. That's a pleasant surprise.

@InkAndPoet Год назад

It's Metallica. It would be a sin to reduce this album review to under 10 minutes. Though, this album SHOULD have been included in the next FIMI.

@DevonArcherOsborne Год назад

I hear everything you said. To be honest I don't even know if Metallica really needed to do this album. It's definitely solid but this album didn't need to be more than an hour.

@animal1439 Год назад

Too Far Gone, Room of Mirrors, Lux Aeterna, and Inamorata made this album worth it for me. Even if I don't see myself going back to the rest of the record very often, those songs fucking rock in my eye and I'm happy to have some new Metallica tracks to spin and learn on guitar.

@DevonArcherOsborne Год назад

@@animal1439 I agree. I'm still a sucker for the title track, Lux Eterna, and Sleepwalk My Life Away.

@Defx7 Год назад

"sleepwalk my life away" sounds like "enter sandman" and "broken beat and scared" being played at the same time.

@infernalastaroth_1634 Год назад

the sleepwalk my life away main riff is literally the enter sandman chorus and it still kicks ass

@prometheustv6558 Год назад

It seems like everyone either loves Kirk’s solos or hates them completely

@mg682 Год назад

I hate them. I feel there's something there but it undelivers for me big time. I disagree that kirk is a highlight on this album. James tho, killing it on vocals. He's unleashing his pain!

@ricequin Год назад

Metallica have the same problem as Pink Floyd: they have made so much music that is incredible that anything new would have to be utterly stunning to make me want to listen to it over some of their other work. When I have a desire to hear Metallica I’m going to reach for one of the first five records. I liked “72 Seasons” well enough the one time I heard it but I haven’t felt the need to return in the week since. I don’t feel there’s much there I didn’t get first time.

@nickudeschini4812 Год назад

Honest truth I kind of felt that way too. Everything after St. Anger isn't terrible but it also feels nonessential. Credit where it's due, they're not farting around making Summer in Paradise, but if they wanted to just be a touring band who only played their old stuff I wouldn't mind. Also why is the Toxic Avenger clawing his way out of your chest?

@Hammerhead547 Год назад

I've always thought that the whole fiasco behind the making of St Anger is what soured them on making new albums because of how they were forced into making an album they really didn't want to make when what they really needed was five years off to just rest and recover after spending the previous fifteen either in the studio or on the road. After something like that happens to a band it usually becomes a self fulfilling prophecy that a band will either make mew material because they don't have a choice or because they just don't care and want the money (see dave mustaine admitting in an interview that he really doesn't like making new albums anymore but does it out of obligation because he wants the money).

@phyrexiancoffee6324 Год назад

As someone who's favorite (while recognizing that it is far from their BEST) album is Death Magnetic, I don't hate 72 Seasons. It's not nearly their best, but it's.... fine. Mainly just glad to hear some good mixing that brings the bass more towards the front, though that may be my bias as a basist.

@ericksheldon3870 Год назад

death magnetic kicks this album’s ass around the moon and back

@YouCanCallMeXoe Год назад

I think I'm at the point where I treat Metallica like Eminem. They are integral to my appreciation of their respective genres, and I won't complain if I hear new stuff from them, but you could not pay me enough to go actively listen to new stuff from them, because I'm bound to just switch it off after a few minutes. Case in point, I tried listening to this thing, and the first track sure did exist. It existed to the point where I went and seeked out other bands and artists to listen to before even finishing the song.

@kaydraven Год назад

100% agree with you. I said this to my friend the other day. I don't care enough about Metallica any more to actively seek out their new music. If it comes up randomly I don't mind hearing it but I'm not gonna go out of my way to listen to it.

@volutedmetal8543 Год назад

I will say, I appreciate that the song lengths vary more than Hardwired did. I also thought the second half was much better than the first half (other than Darkness) tbh

@eliasmg9144 Год назад

I didn't like the 3 songs that he mentioned in particular, but after Darkness it definitely picks up the pace by a lot

@volutedmetal8543 Год назад

@@eliasmg9144 Oh yeah, absolutely. The 3-song run at the end is really damn good. Three songs with some really interesting guitar parts (finally more harmony parts!!!), and Inamorata is legit one of my favorite Metallica songs ever I think (my favorite is Fixxxer and I'm huge on The Outlaw Torn and My Friend of Misery, so I feel like that explains it haha)

@crazydud3380 Год назад

@@volutedmetal8543 Yeah, the lack of mention of Inamorata is weird. I fear the album's bloat may have hurt his perception of the closer, as he was clearly burned out well before he made it to that point.

@CustodianVirgil Год назад

It's always good to see you, Crash

@DylanBelievesInTheNet Год назад

Oh hell yeah youtube finally let me know when you uploaded a video >:U

@bigkc4263 Год назад

Hey Crash can you do a “How to get into Metalica” video?

@BrandonCroker Год назад

Apparently by never never land, they meant never never stop recording?

@porcupineinapettingzoo Год назад

100% agree, I feel post St. Anger Metallica kinda sound like a Metallica tribute band making an original album, at least in the Load era they were trying something now it's weak Master or Ride the Lightning lite which always makes me wonder why I'm not listening to their old stuff instead.

@CherryCheetah Год назад

The best thing about this album is that it helped me get through the mindless work task I do every month that includes mindless punching strings of numbers. Other than that - it's the definition of "ok". I'm not angry that I heard it, but I don't this I'll play it again anytime soon. Best song... um... Room of Mirrors? Yeah, maybe that. All the songs kinda blend together for me.

@DurradonXylles Год назад

As a lifelong Metallica fan, this is also my thoughts on 72 Seasons: lengthy songs, long runtime, front loads all of the best and/or most interesting tracks, has strong riffs and vocal performance, but ultimately it's just more late period Metallica. It's not a horrible listen if you like Metallica, I know that I had a pleasant listen through it, but it is slightly disappointing that we're just getting more Hardwired... To Self-Destruct after the better part of a decade. It's not even like Death Magnetic, another fine late period album, was following up St. Anger after five years. It's just... There.

@SuperDmath Год назад

Metallica is my favorite band and I enjoyed this one but I can’t argue with you asking if they need to keep making music as long as they’re touring and stuff

@danford4275 Год назад

Wonky greenscreen effects aside, repo records rules!

@CrashThompson Год назад

That they do. Nice place. Always try to hit them up when I'm in Philly

@hossdosboss Год назад

@@CrashThompson I actually have a sticker I got from them when I went back in april of 2022 for a black midi show

@Metalllians86 Год назад

Dude i beg to differ. Load and reload has one my favourite lyrics. I dare say peak lyric writing after the black album. Songs like bleeding me, the outlaw torn, cure, the house that jack built, thorn within fucken rules bro.

@tylerhackner9731 Год назад

I’ll listen to it again and see what I think

@user-zm6yh3ux7l Год назад

Somebody once said that if another song was never written, we would be fine. Music hit so hard from the 60s to the 90's that we've already got everything we need. It would be extremely hard nowadays to write a good song without sounding like something else. I'm a huge music fan and I've been a musician since the nineties. However, it's extremely hard for me to find new music that I actually like. Last music that I actually got into was from st. Paul and the broken bones. I also like Tom Misch.

@RanterInShades Год назад

You just don't like saying "It exists" about a Metallica album.

@TheseHotIdiots Год назад

For some reason I don't know why, but Metallica usually wants like, 5 to 8 minute songs, but it's kind of like they took a 3 minute song and looped it. There isn't a progression or like, distinct parts of a song that you can point out. You get to a really cool solo like chorus 3 or chorus 4, but like... Could the solo have come after chorus 2? I really wanted to like "oops my baby exploded" but could have it been a 40 minute album bar some fan decided to make an 80 minute edit?

@bobbykarmi8165 Год назад

What is going on with the shirt? The greenscreen eyes are starring into my soul.

@nickfrost2383 Год назад

This is probrably the most expensive metal album I will listen to this year.

@isaaczurich9272 Год назад

At time of writing, I have not listened to the record yet. The singles leading up to the album just didn't do anything for me. If I didn't know that they were Metallica songs, I could easily have confused them for a new band who really likes Metallica and are still trying to find their voice.

@stevenbaksh5545 Год назад

They choose the most boring meh songs If Darkness Had a Son and Screaming Suicide to be singles but if you expecting 80s Metallica this is not it If you can appreciate The Black Album, Load, and Reload era you may like most of this album if not well better to go listen to the Guitar Hero 3 version of Death Magnetic

@dubjubs Год назад

@johnwheeler9186 You're literally the only person saying "it gets worse". Room of Mirrors, Shadows Follow, Too Far Gone are great tracks

@stevenbaksh5545 Год назад

@@dubjubsRoom of Mirrors, Shadow Fallow, Too Far Gone I would add Crown of Barbed Wire and Inamorata are great but music is subjective

@Happyal-qt3xs Год назад

WELCOME BACK CRASH YOU LEGEND

@infernalastaroth_1634 Год назад

as much as you say specifically the “1-2-3 punch of mid”, i agreed with you on that first listen, but chasing light AND crown of barbed wire really do have much more to offer. the second half is, in my opinion, worse than the first, but it really is a lot better upon a second listen

@AlexPinage Год назад

I think it's fine. I like a lot of the ideas and song cores but they don't crop them, you know? It's exactly the same thing as Hardwired for me, too bloated (except for Inamorata, which is 11/10). I want more Metallica but I want it awesome, not just ok.

@BrosselLP Год назад

I'm with you on Rob's input, but honestly I couldn't find a single Kirk solo on this record that stuck with me. Half the time it seems like he went into the studio and improvised something that sounded okay to him. Definitely not exciting at all.

@chazwolf_ Год назад

my favorite part of the album is the singles actually having their own cover arts

@magicwindow6682 Год назад

That used to be more common in the days of physical singles

@chazwolf_ Год назад

@@magicwindow6682 i know, glad they're keeping up tradition

@magicwindow6682 Год назад

@@chazwolf_ I especially like it when they keep a consistent visual style along with the album art as Metallica is doing

@jellyzondo7535 Год назад

the first listen through I thought it was pretty bad, then I heard it more and it grew on me. the only bad track I thought was like garbage garbage was "if darkness had a son", and I hated screaming suicide when it first came out because I hate songs with deep meanings like that, then I just decided to throw the meaning out the window and groove to the creative drums lars made for that one. The only stand out tracks on that album for me are, Chasing Light, Lux Aeterna, Screaming Suicide, 72 Seasons. All of the other songs were all the same tones and almost the same guitar riffs lol

@ericksheldon3870 Год назад

this is the album that people think death magnetic is.

@akwilson1676 Год назад

What's with your shirt?

@CrashThompson Год назад

Lars is watching. Always watching. 👀

@afrimcelaj489 Год назад

This album is a lot better than it's getting credit for. I felt the same way you felt the first 2 times I listened to the album. By listen #9 or 10 it got so much better. Room of Mirrors is the best song on the album. The entire album is a grower, like a 2" penis that becomes a solid 5.75", not that I know about any of that or anything...

@InkAndPoet Год назад

"Does Metallica really need to release new music?" Ummmm... not really. Honestly, I could only get through the first three tracks because it didn't give me anything to say that others hadn't already.

@animal1439 Год назад

My biggest complaint about this album is that it is wayyy to long and that the guitar/drum tone sound so stock. There's some really good songs here (albeit many are too long), but it definitely over stays its length. Thankfully the album ends super strong with Too Far Gone, Room of Mirrors, and Inamorata and it makes me forget about alot of the mediocre songs in the middle.

@jacobgregersen377 Год назад

What's going on with your shirt

@CrashThompson Год назад

Lars is watching you. Always watching.

@kylehegedus5498 Год назад

Maybe they should just be a touring band now.

@famineinfernal1 Год назад

Who noticed the eyes?

@jamierowe_ Год назад

Why would Metallica need to improve or grow at 60+ yrs old and 40+ yrs in? Like they say...they make music they like to play,and to me personally them being Metallica is all i want or need them to be

@stevenbaksh5545 Год назад

I find the first half to be just ok 72 Seasons, Lux, and Shadow Follow are great the rest is just meh but the second half is good to great Crown of Barbed Wire and Inamorata are the stand outs on the entire album. Too Far Gone, Room of Mirrors, and Chasing Light are good but If Darkness Had A Son is way too long shaving off 3 minutes could have improved that song greatly overall I am satisfied because I had low expectations going into it they choose some of the most boring meh songs to be the singles.

@gregoryhenry8464 Год назад

Metallica and spongebob have a very similar arc to me. Their old stuff is considered the best, they had what some consider their worst period for a while, then they made stuff that’s not bad but also not great

@mikethegrunty5968 Год назад

As a Metallica fan, I don’t want them to stop making new music. I want them to step it up, mix things up a bit, trim the length down. The album is ok, but Metallica can be fucking awesome if they if they wanted to

@theroguecybersoldier2629 Год назад

It feels like this album is just leftover tracks from Hardwired, that got cut for a reason. Hardwired is a great album, but minus the mixing issues I think Death Magnetic was their best in recent years. Unless they can come up with some good material that doesn't play it safe, I really think Metallica should stop making new music

@Hammerhead547 Год назад

They were clearly trying to emulate the more "raw" production sound that Iron Maiden has had on their last few albums thanks to kevin shirley just not giving a fuck anymore because he was at the twilight of his career and knew he didn't have to really try. I will say this much about it: metallica's producer at least understands that an album can have that raw sound but it has to at least sound finished and not like a leaked bootleg "nearly there" mix of an album that ended up being shelved.

@Tempo1337 Год назад

Mehtallica in full effect

@fantasmia Год назад

A friend of mine pretty much summed up this album for me by saying it should of been called 'attack of the b-sides'.

@edelgardian Год назад

I really wanted to give this more love, but it’s really just a solid record, nothing more. I wish they could cut the fat and just deliver an album of thrash bangers, but I guess that’s asking too much. 6/10

@bluecrystalcandles2845 Год назад

The radio station I listen to was playing a song off 72 Seasons at the beginning of every hour over the weekend. I don’t know the song name, but the chorus was something about you are the witch you burn. I was so bored I wanted to listen to a song that might be about the same subject from a completely different band in a different metal subgenre. Metallica of all bands shouldn’t make me want to listen to someone else (with way better musicianship). I love every Metallica record up to Reload. However, I haven’t liked any records after that. This one is no different. It bores me to death.

@kurtcobain279489 Год назад

As much as my teen self wants to love this album, between Hardwired and this, Metallica is safely nestled in the boomer biker bar sound now. Still a good listen but can't help thinking this fits perfectly in a place filled with old leather wearing dudes that have a line of Harley's hanging out front.

@OrgaNik_Music Год назад

A lot of the tracks are just way too long for no apparent reason. There are parts on many songs that just repeat over and over without adding anything substantial to it. It's not a bad album as such, but even the better songs seem to lose momentum because of the pointless length.

@shayneoneill1506 Год назад

Metallica was always at its best when it was doing "Unga bunga make the moshpit move" tbh. The problem with mid 90s onwards metallica is its just gentrified. The earlier albums (Kill em all to Masters and arguably Justice) where great because it was *hungry* meth raged flip out music. And then the band got rich and the band got comfortable (mid career meltdown notwithstanding). Best thing that could happen would be for them to break up for a few years and spend time playing in other thrash bands to get a reminder what it means to be a working class thrash band again, and THEN come back refreshed.

@marcosagrero2866 Год назад

Good ol' Crash

@Hammerhead547 Год назад

The only american thrash metal singer who can do it as good as james hetfeild at the same age is Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth of Overkill. Their new album Scorched is fucking killer.

@DeathMachineJoe Год назад

Hot take: If St. Anger didn't exist, this album would be my least favorite Metallica record. It's far from awful and has a few alright songs like the title track and You Must Burn!, but this album honestly kinda bored and even infuriated me a little bit. The best way I can describe 72 Seasons imo would be predictability. Many of the songs feel or sound alike with little deviation from the typical Metallica song structure and the album is way too long like the last few. There are definitely lots of good ideas here, but I feel like every time they introduce a new/interesting element it doesn't really go anywhere. And with most of the songs being over 5 or 6 mins, it feels like they drag on forever with the repeated riffs and predictable writing. Ironic that you praised the solos because what mainly infuriated me was most of Kirk's solos. I can't count how many times I've heard him do a "widdly widdly" part with the wah pedal on nearly every track. It really started to grate on me to the point where I started skipping songs outright. The closing track Inamorata has a few cool parts like the guitar harmonies and slower groove throughout, but mostly disappointed me with how repetitive and drab it sounded. I can say the same about many of the other tracks like as well and the fact none of them seem to have any "wow" moments that would make you want to listen to the songs again. Even the best tracks like 72 Seasons and Lux Æterna feel like they would be filler songs on one of the better Metallica albums. Maybe I'm being too critical or nitpicky, but this album ended up disappointing a lot more than it should've and I didn't have high expectations for it in the first place. Again, it's far from bad and I'll listen to 72 Seasons any day over St. Anger, but I know Metallica can do better than this, even this late in their career. I'll try and give it another listen sometime, but I don't think my opinion will change that much. :/

@corvettemustang1 Год назад

after hearing about 20% of 4 different songs ( couldnt tell you what they were called ) i don't like anything about it and the fact that they didn't attatch their name to the cover lol they must not think much of it either money grab perhaps ( but not my money lol )

@BradyMatteson Год назад

Crash who the hell is in your shirt

@CrashThompson Год назад

Lars is watching. Always watching

@BradyMatteson Год назад

@@CrashThompson OMG IT IS HAHA

@MofosOfMetal Год назад

Not a brilliant album but it's mostly solid and occasionally GREAT - best songs other than Lux are the final 3 songs. Weird review saying it gets weak near the end. The last 3 are the best!

@chrisman3965 Год назад

They really need to call it quits. Best days are FAR behind them and basically it's old man dad rock at this point for older guys who just can't let go, who think maybe, just maybe the NEXT album will be as good as Puppets. Stop, just stop.

@RT-if2ij Год назад

Same old average from this band. Needed to change production and stop listening to the drummer when producing the album. Was hoping for a more musical challenging theme, to live is to die, Orion type thinking, not predictable boring riffs that sound like what’s came before. I only see them live to hear the old songs. 72 seasons was what I thought it would be after hearing the first single release, not a fan of it sorry.

@DefyReality-ll2cg Год назад

I agree with pretty much everything you said. imho, Metallica haven't put out an album that is breathtakingly amazing from start to finish (Where I love every single song) since The Black Album. 72 seasons is a good album but it's not a good Metallica album. Honestly it all felt like one long song to me and found myself getting distracted out of the songs quite a bit. I don't find myself putting any of the songs on my personal Spotify playlists.

@wheelsofmercury Год назад

This new Metallica record is just good background music, that’s all.

@BobLee-df4zh Год назад

My review of this alhum- "it sounds like a Metallica album".

@jblazeby Год назад

67 Seasons then Crash haha

@Pepsolman Год назад

I feel completely the opposite than you. Kirk’s solos were slightly better on this album but still the weakest part of the album.

@phadrus 20 дней назад

It’s like all the filler from hardwired to self-destruct. And none none of hard wires best tracks just the worst.

@cmsull3316 Год назад

It’s ok

@InfernalRitesCharts Год назад

Two massive Thrash titans released an album on the same day, being Metallica and Overkill. By the 4th non-single track on the new Metallica, I was repeating "is it over yet" in my head. The new Overkill, on the other hand, kicks some ass and damn sure boots the new Metallica out the door.

@stevenbaksh5545 Год назад

Problem is with the new Overkill is it just sounds generic boring like I have heard this alot from this band before in my opinion.

@weregretohio7728 Год назад

Those two albums are such a great contrast. You have metal royalty that can phone it, has changed its sound but still manages to sound the same, and then you have a hardworking, blue-collar band that can't change. You have bloat and pretention on one hand and passion on the other.

@eliasmg9144 Год назад

3/7 for me, it definitely has some good songs but DAMN do I wish it was 20 minutes shorter at least. It opens and closes really strongly at least

@Googledude Год назад

+ 72 Seasons sounds like the worst version of Hardwired to Self-Destruct (As if they took rejected demos from "HtoSD" and made an album in 3 months, for the sake of a new tour). Why listen to this weak cliche on hardwired, if you can just listen to the same hardwired.. the answer is simple.

@XakTerrible Месяц назад

I agree. That was my exact thought when I first heard it. Hardwired is so fucking good and this album is a total disappointment.

@danielcash58 Год назад

Inamorata is an EPIC song. Your ears need checked. Perhaps you are trying to get clicks by posting incorrect information? Funny thing is 90% of EVERY REVIEW I HAVE SEEN says the BACK half is the better half.

@XakTerrible Месяц назад

MetallicA are my favorite band and have been for a very long time, but this album is hot garbage. I've never been this bored with an album of theirs (St. Anger doesn't count because it doesn't exist).

@ArtemyMusha Год назад

"If Darkness Had A Son"? I didn't know Metallica wrote KonoSuba fanfiction!

@dannenils Год назад

This is the best album since justice. Period!!

@XakTerrible Месяц назад

Better than Hardwired? No way.

@tronslater274 Год назад

Though it has some riffs that were good/solid, for the most part, this album was dull and boring. 1st Metallica album that I will not listen more than once…in other news, Just as old Overkill made a better record.

@alexddragame Год назад

Very much a normal album, nothing that special tho. Not better than Hardwired, not worse than some other post Black records

@volutedmetal8543 Год назад

I thought Load and Reload (particularly Load) had some very well-written songs. Load's my favorite Metallica record tbh Also, it's funny about St. Anger, because even if the drum sound is really wonky, the actual playing is Lars at his most technical (other than Justice)

@stevenbaksh5545 Год назад

I know that's the odd part that Lars's best drumming outside of AJFA can be found on that album but he just had to get his trash can and it seems that he realizes that was a bad idea there was this video of him backstage in 2013 I think of him making fun of the snare drum on St Anger

@volutedmetal8543 Год назад

@@stevenbaksh5545 Yep, I remember that! Though the band was asked very recently if they'd change things about their career and the band over the year if they could, and they all said no, including Lars specifically referring to the St. Anger snare iirc. The St. Anger - Live In Studio DVD (which is very easy to find on YT) has a pretty good sound with performances pretty close to the album itself, and the snare, while still ringy, actually sounds like a snare

@stevenbaksh5545 Год назад

@@volutedmetal8543 they see St Anger was necessary to fix the band just watch Some Kind of Monster documentary but that still doesn't justify it there are not so bad songs on it if you can look over the snare Frantic is a great song it sounds great live St Anger the title track The Unnamed Feeling and All Within My Hands are not bad too

@g.u.959 Год назад

0/10, didn’t call it Mid-tallica. (jk) Love ya crash. ❤

@bgvo4373 Год назад

Mention St. Anger!!!

@kevinshepard7796 8 месяцев назад

I thought it was an awful album. Im glad others enjoy it. But its by far their safest, most boring, most generic album. Every song is so fucking long. Way too long. The generic production quality sounds so flat, their guitar tones are lame. Every song is just power chord over power chord. Very safe writing. Just boring. And you mention Kirk shining on this record and shreds.. the sad thing is, he hardly *at all* wrote anything for the album. Very disappointedd in this release. Cheers man. Good video

@Alfredo78666 Год назад

"This is the best album since Master of Puppets", yeah never heard before. Overkill also released their last record last week, way better than this overhyped turd. If a noname band would have released this trashbin-worthy record, nobody would hesitate to call it what it is.

@eversosleight Год назад

I can agree Crash! Lackluster. I prefer the new Megadeth over this and I'm a die hard Metallica fan.

@neiljackson81 9 месяцев назад

Lol kirks solos are terrible on this album. Go listen to megadeths new one to hear good solos

@thelastchannelonyoutube Год назад

I think the band is still recovering from St. Anger and the Napster fiasco. They don’t want to relive that level of backlash so they’re playing it safe. The problem is that as a result, the music isn’t worth listening to.

@marcen12 Год назад

That moment when Fall Out Boy had a better late period record than Metallica.

@CrashThompson Год назад

Weird innit. 😂

@austinbramer558 Год назад

Yea, no. Fall out boys best record will be worst than st anger

@marcen12 Год назад

@@austinbramer558 Let's not say things we cant take back.

@eliasmg9144 Год назад

@@austinbramer558 trust me bro, few things in the music world are as bad as st anger

@austinbramer558 Год назад

@@eliasmg9144 nope. You’re on a bandwagon

@mattdeinken6580 Год назад

This album is boring

@TheRareVideosXL Год назад

This album sounds the same and is meh.

@francoisdewit8073 Год назад

Yikes, this was a bad take on the album.

@XakTerrible Месяц назад

Well, the album was a bad take on an album, so...

@mixedbag222 Год назад

I don’t understand you

@weregretohio7728 Год назад

I can't believe the number of people declaring this an 8/10 album. We must be listening to different things. It's so bloated and lazy for the most part. Worst part is that they could have easily made this a much better album if they were capable of making better choices. This is the definition of what waiting for a paycheck feels like. No, they don't need to release new music. Do they want to? Hetfield probably does. Lars and Kirk are collecting that paycheck. Lackluster is a good word for it. It's a bog-standard album. The definition of a 5 or 6/10.

@alphaenemyplus8376 Год назад

Straight up agree, except that Kirk really isn't impressing me on this one either. What they did manage to muster from Hardwired is just kinda the same thing here with a bit different production. That this is the biggest metal band of all time is really hard to understand in any context 32 years after the black album came out. There are shitloads of metal bands that put out objectively better material than this regularly.

@IsaacAllison Год назад

0:00 Lars Ulrich Sucks Drumsticks

@dannyinoakpark9095 Год назад

I like this album No frills No BS Just down and dirty metal And I've gone back and listened to the past stuff (Not St Anger) 72 Seasons hits And that's fine 4/5

@tylerbailey9329 Год назад

Yeah, this one was pretty much a slog. There were quite a few good ideas, but it sounded like Metallica really didn't know what to do with them the vast majority of the time. For a genre that's defined by focus and precision that's really not a great look.

@vorhese Год назад

Everything post Black album is completely forgettable. But I dont think they care, they are raking in the dough. The modern day Metallica fan is the metal version of a Foo FIghter fan.

@stevenbaksh5545 Год назад

There is some good stuff on Load and Reload and the original mix of Death Magnetic boy is some of those songs unlistenable but I recently listened to The Guitar Hero 3 mix of Death Magnetic and I got to say that album is great the only weak moment is Broken Beat and Scarred for the cringe lyrics.

@Hammerhead547 Год назад

@@stevenbaksh5545 I've always found that metallica are like motley crue, iron maiden and many other bands that write stuff which they know will sound great live but it never quite translates in the studio versions either because of compression or because of the production. On their last few albums metallica has definitely sounded like like they're trying to produce a "live mix" for the studio where they have the soundboard configured the same way it would be if they were playing an 80.000 seat stadium in south america.

@tylerbailey9329 Год назад

Screaming Suicide is straight-up offensive for just how badly they execute it. It's a serious song, but it sounds like some stupid shit a buttrock band would come up with to try to sound edgy.