I think it’s thrashier than the 9”’s material, even the black album. This and hardwired sit somewhere between Justice and black for me. Not as progressive as justice, but thrashier and less radio than black.
I get my fair share of AJFA and Load vibes from this album whereas I feel like hardwires was more KEA and black album and death magnetic harkened back to puppets and justice
@@dekapitatorr yeah i know, i actually love this new album i just said that for comedy, i like that it sounds like a little bit of everything Metallica, tbh it sounds like "black album 2" it sounds like an alternate reality where Metallica released this after black album but still taking inspirations from their past but mostly black album but also threw in some of those groovy ideas from the load/reload stuff the album sounds really cool and the songs are pure bangers!
Personally I think that You Must Burn! and Sleepwalk my life away are the best ones but I love seeing so many people giving each one of the tracks enough love. It's great that the album has enough tracks to fit many tastes.
Chasing Light is the highlight of the album for me. That main riff is just so vibrant, I get the feeling of a sense of curious wonderment, and forward motion.
I think just like Load and Reload if you forget that it's a Metallica album and just a random metal album, it's perfectly fine. It doesn't need to replicate Puppets or Justice to be an amazing album. So even though it was a bit different I liked it.
In general, a very amazing album. And there are actually more of "geeky" stuff regarding the previous songs. Like, how Inamorata is basically My Friend Of Misery 2 (even referencing a line from it, "misery loves company"), or title reference to Broken Beat & Scarred in Room of Mirrors. I hope you will have fun breaking down more of these songs
For people that think Metallica is good these days, please check out these songs and realize thrash is much more nowadays. Here's a list with modern thrash songs: Havok - Root of Evil HeXeN - Knee Deep in the Dead Warbringer - Remain Violent Power Trip - Executioner's Tax Traitor - 66 Exeter Street Blackened Thrash: Lucifuge - Black Battalions High Command - Fortified by Bloodshed Ketzer - Warlust Inculter - Impending Doom Witchtrap - Powerof the Maul Blackened Tech Thrash: Cryptosis - Transcendence Vektor - Pteropticon Revocation - The Grip Tightens Paranorm - Critical Mass
I love Robert, I honestly credit him for helping save Metallica after their lowest point in their career during the St. Anger era (I loved St. Anger btw). I think Rob helping encourage them to return to their roots from Death Magnetic forward, I remember hearing that he's responsible for Metallica playing songs live that they haven't played in years like "Call Of Cthulu". Rob is just a down to earth dude, such a loveable personality and he's a freaking beast on the bass! My love for Metallica will never die!
I feel like a lot of the recent appearances and stuff seem to reflect James and Rob becoming closer and more friendly. I feel like he’s really found his place in the band and they’re letting him run with it. Obviously it’s been a couple of days but I’d be interested to see what we would get out of a future album as they mesh more and more over the years, and James and Lars let the other guys bring more ideas to the table.
@@pollorojo hopefully after 20 years they finally are more friendly. Rob unfortunately always just seems in the background and doesn’t say a lot during their rehearsals or interviews
When I read a comment about "Metallica going sludge" under Inamorata, I became hyped in a milisecond. I heard the main riff, man, I legit teared up. Can't explain why, but this scooped guitar tones playing harmonies, are just giving a really warm hug for my brain, ears, and my entire body. I swear man, I really didn't expect these feelings to appear on the album
man I had that too! Maybe by chance that was also the perfect moment when I listened to that. Coming back tired, satisfied and a bit melanchonic after a gig of myself under a light rain... that's why we love them!
That riff and that ending riff in Inamorata...the "Misery.....ooh my Misery..." part. It's so damn good. Same with the main riff from Shadows Follow. All 3 5/5 easily. 🤘
It's good because it feels like he actually played on the song hearing what's actually being played by the rest of the band and adapting. The rest of the album sounds like they threw some generic licks at random and went with it.
@@thebatman1482 that’s my only complaint about the album. If Kirk’s solos actually played along with the riffs instead of trying to be its own thing, the songs would be so much more memorable to me. I think if I tried to listen to the isolated solos and try to connect them to the right song, I’d give up (Except for Inamorata)
If Darkness Had a Son sounds pretty amazing live - the version that they played on Jimmy Kimmel Live show really kicks ass as they cut off some fluff and made it shorter and it also has the punch the studio version lacks.
@@ilyeshmusic it's a grower. 3 songs I thought were meh I now think are amazing. Not a single bad song on the album imo. They haven't done that since Justice/Black albums!
This album is the missing link between The Black Album and Load. I love those albums, and I like this one. Maybe it's a couple songs too long. Inamorata is absolutely incredible though.
@@MegaAndyGG I completely disagree with Reload being better than Load. Reload has some of the worst Metallica songs of all time in my opinion, Carpe Diem Baby, Bad Seed, Better Than You, Prince Charming and The Memory Remains (one of their worst singles in my opinion). But I agree the new album is too long, most songs should be 30 seconds shorter or a couple songs could be left off.
The yellow album sounds good, imma start naming them albums by colors The red album The Blue album (Green for French lucky guys back in 84´) The... master red album The grey album Metallica The orange semen and blood album The orange Pee and blood album The not good red album The grey magnetic album The white album with a rainbow inside
Maybe unpopular, but Shadows Follow is probably my favorite song are my favorite song on the album and its not even close! One of my all time favorites now.
@Crazy man I loved Darkness at the first listen. It was a gutwrencher in the first order. And 72 was fun. Screaming Suicide ended up being a great message for myself. The problem I have with most of the album is that, there really aren't more, like, SONGS. The rest is like they kinda checked their musicianship at the door. This is my first impression. It's not flattering, but... :/ What can I say. I'll figure this out.
I think I second this. Doesn't mean it comes anywhere close to TBA, but it's definitely harder, more complex, less commercial than RE/LOAD. Not much in the 2000s is worth mentioning, IMO, but I've always thought meh Metallica is a million times better than no Metallica.
Am I the only one that would love to hear a remastered version of kill em all with the actual sound? In 72 seasons and Hardwired guitars are so sick and sharp💥
Don't remember which song it was, but in cinema when the members started praising a Kirk solo, half the audience burst out laughing. Turned out it actually was one of the better solos of the album
Ahh yes, the specialist, the musicians geniuses, and the worst - people who ate something of music and can play a guitar - snobs. Kirks solos are... sometimes decents, sometimes good. Like c'mon, if you really like it, fuck'em, just be happy that the legend and the best metal band on the world still playing with almost the same guys for 40 years. They late 50 and almost 60 and they still trashing. Fuck haters and snobs, headbang and enjoy! Do not take your happines to some douchebags.
@@antoniocenteno1483 nah man. He should do MUUUUUCH better. He was great back in the day. Now it's just meh ~~ same old shit over and over. All good though
I get the feeling Chasing Light was written as a metaphorical blessing from proverbial father (Metallica) to his child/children (Us, the fans whom they raised with their music). It was like they were saying to lean on them in tough times. I know it’s all subjective but that’s what I felt.
It's so cool to finally see you talk about a new Metallica album after all the years I've been subscribed! If this is the last one, boy what a way to go out! I loved how much it felt like a 3rd Load album! Especially the Alice In Chains vocals in YMB! And the slap bass intro in SMLA reminded me of Cure (Also, finally a bass (and drum) intro after all these years!) I also found the lyrical and melodic homages to Broken, Beat and Scarred and Misery cool too. For some reason Room of Mirrors reminds me of a mixture between a camp musical song and an RHCP song, lol. All the best frrriend. 🤘
If I had to guess Trujillo's riff for SS I'd guess the pre-chorus ("Don't ever speak my name") as it's groovy and feels like something he could come up with jamming on the bass. Just my opinion though.
I love Robert, I honestly credit him for helping save Metallica after their lowest point in their career during the St. Anger era (I loved St. Anger btw). I think Rob helping encourage them to return to their roots from Death Magnetic forward, I remember hearing that he's responsible for Metallica playing songs live that they haven't played in years like "Call Of Cthulu". Rob is just a down to earth dude, such a loveable personality and he's a freaking beast on the bass! My love for Metallica will never die!
I still think that a remastered st anger with a normal sound and mix and less “cried out” would be just shy of the first 4 albums and at least on par with Black Album. Most songs are really cool if you force yourself thinking how they could sound if produced and sang properly.
I honestly love this album. Mix is excellent. Bass guitar is more heard than on the previous 2 albums. Some solos are amazing. Maybe if only the drums could have been less loud & the overall sound wasn't too compressed as what it is
Shadows Follow has one of the most disgusting and evil riffs I’ve ever heard on a Metallica record. The record isn’t their absolute best work, but they did a great job
I was pleasantly surprised. I wasn't super stoked about the singles, but the rest of the tracks were pretty good. Inamorata was like a response to My Friend of Misery. I truly enjoyed it
Man... your experience matches my perfectly. I freaking love this album, best Metallica album since The Black Album, I'm super impressed with it, god damn.
72 Seasons falls flat for me. I've never heard Metallica sound so generic and write such bland tunes. Not sure what others are hearing tbh....but I'm glad for whoever likes it.
One thing I've noticed about Metallica on the last two records is they have a serious problem moving from the tonic and building a chord progression. Too Far Gone is actually the only example on the new record where the chorus has a discernible progression of chords. It's quite hard to create catchy or impactful vocal melodies when your chords are static. If you go back and listen to basically any other era of the band, they never struggled writing a chord progression, but something has gone a bit strange in this era. Still, I think this album is much better than Hardwired. The second half of this record is really exciting stuff, and some of James' vocal parts were really moving actually. His voice is definitely getting stronger with age, and that's impressive. All in, I'm pretty happy with this record.
I actually like the sound on 72 better than Hardwired, for one big reason: THE BASS! it's so much clearer, fatter here. I loved Inamorata so much, man. yeah, it's Sabbath-y, but it's also "My Friend Of Misery"-y at points... which is one of my absolute favourite Metallica songs.
I really like it! Gonna need more listens but, so far, my favorite songs come from the second half - “If Darkness Had a Son”, “Too Far Gone?”, and “Inamorata”
I was actually going to comment in your previous videos to say you were jumping the gun with your assetment of the new material. I actually really like now Screaming..great groove, If Darkness etc. and yeah after hearing the whole thing is like wow! so good! I really like Shadows Follow, so many interesting riffs all over the album, such great energy. Very happy listening to this album.
Im not much of a fan of most of the singles but damn Inamorata is fucking incredible, its Outlaw Torn mixed with My friend of misery but with a REALLY nice country influence, i love it.
Only negatives for me on the entire album are: Kirk has some great solos, some songs needed more thought on the solo Sleepwalk my Life Away needs to lean on the bass intro more and get a new main riff Chasing Light needs to lose the 30 seconds after the vocal intro, straight into the main riff which kicks ass If Darkness had a son was performed better on Jimmy Kimmel and should have been the version, 5 minutes is great for it
Im starting to love the album. At first I was upset about some aspects of the album, but after some more listening and rumination im starting to really like it. Room of mirrors and Too far gone? are classics already. I learned this album sounds better on speakers, try it out if you have some good speakers. Best record since black album and I think I mean it. By the way Too far gone is proper black album. James vocals on this album are great, like actually great, I think his efforts to sober up have restored some of his energy.
Finally a 72 Seasons review I agree with 😎. Sure, it's not at the level of their 80s album, but it's still a great album with great variety and, for me personally, it's definitely better than Hardwired and even Death Magnetic. I've read several comments saying that this album is like a mix of Hardwired and the Lord albums and I'm like "how!?". This album, like you say, it's definitely faster overall than Hardwired, and even the slower tracks are not that bad. Something else is that, while the album does have a pretty similar sound to Hardwired, I did feel an evolution. In Moth into The Flame we saw James singing in a more melodic style that sounded quite different to previous albums, and here he expands a lot on that kind of more melodic vocal lines, which I really liked.
Okay, it's pretty late here and i'm pretty tired and i have to revise some thing for school I Just saw the first 3 minute and i will finish tomorrow, but this gonna be interesting i Guess Btw the album imo Is awesome and inamorata Just gives goosebump. Keep to rock on frrriend
I was genuinely thinking I'd have to disagree with you for once when I saw your video last night while you were walking and listening to the album. It made me sad, being a big Andriy fan! But this was a great, and accurate of a review and I'm glad we have a very similar view of this album! So happy for this release, can't wait to listen to is another 200 times over the next week!
Well, it turned out better than I expected based on the singles. But it doesn't come close to Hardwired. Yes, some songs on Hardwired are too long, the solos are not great, but the songs have themes. You read the song titles, listen to the lyrics and it all makes sense. There is an atmosphere to each track, so you can actually tell them apart. Plus some cool clean intros, some very memorable riffs and vocal lines. 72 seasons is basically a Wanna-Be-Hardwired, but it lacks most of the points I mentioned.
I don’t agree personally, there are songs on this record which need some retooling (Sleepwalk, If Darkness, Chasing Light) but still have very memorable and amazing moments Hardwired could lose 3 songs completely and be much better (ManUNkind, Murder One, Here Comes Revenge)
@@AustinOgonoski Yeah, the comparison with Beyond Magnetic is spot on. I can't shake off the feeling on some of the tracks that I'm listening to some demo/not-final-release-version. Like Too Far Gone would have been an awesome track if only they made a chorus longer (the speedup part) for people to single along. Or the title 72 season track, catchy verse and chorus, but then they've put unnecessary chromatic half-break-half-bridge in between that completely ruins the pace of the song.
@@charlesbaker7505 Well I guess it's a question of personal taste as always in music. I do like all 3 tracks from Hardwired that you mentioned. One of the reasons for that is that they have very memorable riffs. Like manunkind main riff with that cool swing, or murder one riff with a chromatic hammering bit. There are almost no riffs like that on 72 season (there are some, but definitely not on every track)
It's the first album since their 2000s regenissis that sounds like 80s Metallica Edit: also I think Inamorata might have a James guitar solo Edit edit: I'm finding it better with every listen
I loved Lux Æterna and 72 Seasons upon first hearing, Screaming Suicide took a few but I now love it, to the point I learned it on guitar. Upon hearing the full album, If Darkness Had a Son became much better to me. And found bangers in Shadows Follow, Too Far Gone? and Inamorata. The rest is pretty ok, “You Must Burn” stands a little more. If I had to give it a mark, 4 out of 5. May seem too much but man, some artists are truly making their worst albums in this time period (Green Day, RHCP and Pearl Jam come to mind)
Green Day saddens me as I am a loyal die-hard fan of them, I know every Green Day song u could ever care to hear on guitar and I've seen them live twice. I heavily supported the Trilogy and Rev Rad was awesome(Forever Now is my favorite GD song ever) But since then everything they've put out I can't support it, I love them with all my heart and always will, but they really need to release better stuff🤞🏻
The fact that Metallica can still release songs that I'll have on my playlists and not skip is impressive. Like I enjoy songs from all of their albums and honestly I was a bit worried that I wouldn't like any of the songs from the new album but I like all of them! Sleepwalk My Life Away is the only one I might skip a lot but I love the bass intro in that song
Rob wrote the verse riffs in screaming suicide. I read an interview where he said he wanted to write a climbing riff that MetallicA never wrote before but the climbing verse riff in screaming suicide has been written before in House that jack built.
Unlike Hardwired… I don’t skip a song on 72 seasons. It’s been a while since I’ve had a Metallica album where I didn’t skip a song. I think Load was the last album I didn’t ever skip a song.
I don't skip songs either. I just son't push play pn this yellow turd at all. Generic as fuck. Chugga chugga whine bitch and moan is the new Metallica.
I love Metallica because they dont sing about Wizards, Vikings, Dragons and whatever other bullshit 90% of Metal bands that the sing about. James put his entire soul into this album. 8/10 imo
@Iceman because writing a good text plus a good music is more difficult than writing a good music with a “stupid” text. I mean, I love Dragonforce for example but the words… come on.
On hardwired they released the good songs as singles... on 72 seasons, the hard, heavy & groovy songs were just waiting to jump and prowl on Metallica fans! Such a good album! On my 5th listen now... absorbing it slowly...
I’m disappointed. That really sums up my experience. And, for me, this is perhaps the first time I’ve felt this way with a new Metallica album. For context, I got into Metallica in the late 90’s, but ReLoad was already out, so my first new album experience was St. Anger. And, believe it or not, I wasn’t disappointed with it. Everything everyone says about St Anger is true-I can’t deny any of it, but I still like it, and today, in hindsight, it almost has a “cult” status. It’s from an era when Metallica was still keeping up with the trends, and it’s essentially their version of NuMetal. Just like how Load/ReLoad is their version of 90’s grunge/alternative hard rock. When Death Magnetic arrived, again, I wasn’t disappointed. This was classic 80’s style Metallica, which we craved at the time. Then Hardwired. Again, I wasn’t disappointed, at least not at the time. It sounded better than DM in many ways, and has some bangers. I had some criticisms of each album, but perhaps I had more criticism with Hardwired than the others. It was too long-many of the songs could’ve been shaved off a bit, and some songs cut entirely. But whatever, I still really liked it. Now, with 72 Seasons, I find myself making excuses for them. “Oh this riff is pretty good” or “this sequence is fresh”, but overall, I’m disappointed. It’s fine, but I just wanted better than “fine”. Really, this album is like Hardwired’s ReLoad. It’s basically the same style of album in many ways: all heavy, few slower parts, almost no clean guitar tones, no ballads, and the solos are phoned in more often than not. Like, sure, Kirk is defending them, but sorry Kirk, I expected more. And don’t get me wrong: I am not badmouthing ReLoad here… I LIKE RELOAD-and Load. But, if you didn’t like Load, then you probably didn’t like ReLoad either. Well, if you didn’t like Hardwired, then you probably don’t like 72 seasons, cuz it’s VERY similar. The difference is, we didn’t have to wait 7 years to get reload… it showed up 1 year later, and was basically part 2 to Load. And regardless of what you thought of Load/reload, you can’t argue that at least it was different. And furthermore, the songs sounded different from each other… Fuel is a very different sounding song than Low Man’s Lyric. There’s variety. 72 isn’t different. It’s the same. And all the songs sound the same. And they’re all a little too long. So yea…. I’m a bit disappointed. And it sucks, because, for me, this is the first time MetallicA has disappointed me. Thanks for reading.
Let me be clear: I don’t dislike Hardwired, I just didn’t want more of it. I also don’t HATE 72 seasons. It’s not terrible, by any means, and some of these songs may very well grow on me. I just wish Metallica would try something new. These guys are gettin’ old, and I’m older too, and I would be perfectly ok if they slowed down a bit. Or, at least, try some experimentation. I liked that acoustic rendering of Blackened they did recently… how bout more stuff along those lines? Give me a whole album that sounds kinda like the middle section of Inamorata….
There's a Broken, Beaten, Scarred reference in Room of Mirrors. And the double Yeah, Yeah at the end of Too Far Gone? (although it's not as bombastic as his previous Yeah, Yeahs back in the day, but it's still a nice call back). If Darkness Had a Son says Unforgiven (only once though). I just love the little easter eggs they put in these songs.
That is a bold statement! I’ll have to listen to it a few more times, but I’m not sure they’ll ever top the Black album when it comes to amazing choruses. We will see.
72 seasons is brilliant. I did not agree with your perceptions of the other singles. I have loved every single song. Metallica are brilliant!!! Best Band ever.
72 Seasons is much better than I expected, I love this album! James's vocals are definitely a huge highlight for this album imo, he does something cool on each song on the album and there's lots of cool riffs. This album tops Death Magnetic/Beyond Magnetic and Hardwired for me, and that's saying a lot because I freaking love those albums. I'm honestly blown away, this album exceeded my expectations based on the singles! Long live Metallica! #MUYA
Kirk wrote the fast riff on 72 seasons, which I’m assuming is his writing credit. He says it in the global premiere (I saw it in the cinemas on the 13th), but idk if that specific interview is out yet
I was much more hyped for you review than for the actual album. Veeery glad the album turned out the be much better than what the singles were promising.... BTW, Kirk wrote the main riff to 72 seasons! This was brought up before the song was played in the cinema yesterday, super cool
Oh Dude i agree with you !!!! I am shouting that all over. This is not Metallicas last album. Metallica lyrically will close this carrer with redemption and lightness in order James reverse his path .
The Black Album is called Vertigo I believe :) Great Lyrics diving into James and our wounds hitting us in the feels. A few dual harmonizing solos It has a great energy for 60 year olds lets be real this fire !
Kirk is the ultimate godfather of thrash. prove me wrong. I am pretty sure that he wrote breakdown riff in title song, which is the best riff on whole album.
This album is the best since 1991, sorry Load and Death Magnetic fans My 5th favourite Metallica Album and Inamorata resonated with me so much as a song that I actually cried in the cinema around 6 minutes in
The title track and Shadows Follow were certainly the best tracks imo. Crow of Barbed Wire was a neat surprise. Unfortunately, the majority of songs didn't really catch my attention. Kinda wished there was a thrash song to finish the album properly (in the veins of Damage Inc, Dyers Eve, My Apocalypse, Spit Out the Bone).
Who cares if it's controversial. I would personally disagree. Actually, SCREAMING is great if they would've just gone into the main riff instead of that meandering and misleading intro that makes me want to skip the song.
@@austinhunt4260 so funny, I was saying that to my gf today. Even if they just bookeneded the song with the sort of dual lead style part that would be cool, but the first part of the intro gives a really weak first impression. The rest of the song kicks ass tho
