Metallica: 72 Seasons

[NoodleFace]

 

[manu80]

yeah yeah......there are so many unheard songs to play...soooo tired of sandman, One, master etc....

 

[ShredmasterD]

CD arrives tomorrow says amazon. got my party hat on and hoping for a non-letdown

 

[JediMasterThrash]

Rob is way too good for that band. Everyone else is just fumbling around. It sounds like either Lars or James is nearly missing every 5/8 measure. But that bass is just rolling effortlessly through the whole thing.

 

[Ralyks]

Just got back from a listening party at my local record store. Thought the album was pretty good. I'd say better than Death Magnetic but not quite Hardwired. Got the midnight colored vinyl, and the $5.98 EP Garage Days Re-Revisted on vinyl while I was at it. Got a poster and won some guitar picks from the band in a raffle.

 

[Dooky]

yeah yeah......there are so many unheard songs to play...soooo tired of sandman, One, master etc....

Gonna guess you're a Gen Z or Gen Alpha. I could listen to different live versions of One and Master of Puppets till they quit.

 

[manu80]

I'm 42, don't know to which one it corresponds, started to listen at 12.
It just bothers me sometimes that bands who have a lot of material , are stuck (yeah fans etc......) to playing always those 10 core songs....
Damage inc? orion ? some garage days material ? Frantic etc....whatever but man, i can't stand sandman anymore lol
That's why the concept of 2 different nights is interesting, could bring a lot of other songs on the table. We'll see in may in Paris
LIstened to the album this night...Love Inamorata, crown of barbed wire & chasing light.
So much better then death magnetic and hardwired....

 

[Mprinsje]

New record is an absolute snoozefest. I've seen reviews of this giving it high marks, but if any other band than metallica would've put this out it would've gotten no more than a 5/10, 6 at best.

 

[p0ke]

I thought that was pretty tight by Metallica standards. Yeah, Lars is fumbling around all over the song, especially the added kicks sound pretty random and just flub around, but not enough to ruin the performance IMO.

Come to think of it, the song and the album will be 40 years old soon. Imagine writing a song and having to play it every night for 40 years, and if you leave it out once you'll basically receive death threats or something... Must be a major pain in the ass! So respect to them for playing it that close to the album version.

Regarding the new album: I guess it's OK, but the arrangements are just waaaaaay too stretched out. Take Shadows Follow for example, throughout the song I was waiting for it to go into a double time thrash beat, but that just doesn't happen and instead it just falls flat back into the same beat after every buildup. Boring! After the "On I run, still my shadows follow" would've been a perfect time to thrash away and that would've made the song much better.

The whole album just feels like it's building up for blast off, but it never actually happens.

 

[Zer01]

The album is fine. I listened to it once and probably never will again. If I had to imagine Metallica at 60, this is pretty close to it.

 

[Alsvartr]

Good god. Nothing like a band of boomers pretending they can play metal.

It's like some generic boring ass capitalist metal made by boomers to sell to boomers.

 

[NoodleFace]

I'm 42, don't know to which one it corresponds, started to listen at 12.
It just bothers me sometimes that bands who have a lot of material , are stuck (yeah fans etc......) to playing always those 10 core songs....
Damage inc? orion ? some garage days material ? Frantic etc....whatever but man, i can't stand sandman anymore lol
That's why the concept of 2 different nights is interesting, could bring a lot of other songs on the table. We'll see in may in Paris
LIstened to the album this night...Love Inamorata, crown of barbed wire & chasing light.
So much better then death magnetic and hardwired....

At this point, like most bands that have been around 40ish years, they're a band covering their own greatest hits and that's probably what 95% of the people going to shows want to see. Yeah it'd be cool if they busted out some of their other songs - but this is pandering to the paying crowd.

I thought it sounded pretty good, whoever Kimmell had doing sound nailed it at least.

 

[RevDrucifer]

Metallica does an amazing job at annoying both the older generation who grew up with them and the younger generation who doesn’t give a shit. Both generation have one huge thing in common; they state their preferences and opinions as fact and whine about a band they don’t have to listen to with the same ferocity.

 

[chinnybob]

Have had a couple of listens to the album. Nothing special but I enjoyed it well enough, new Metallica is always a good thing in my book. Interestingly for all the old school KEA vibes that were given off by the singles I actually found a lot of the album reminded me of Load/Reload. Musically it's fairly generic and pretty much what we've come to expect from Metallica these days, but I do think James' vocals on this one are really strong, he sounds the best he has done in a long time and there's some really nice vocal hooks.

Probably a little overlong, probably a little too one-dimensional, but there's enough in there to like. Shadows Follow and Room of Mirrors probably my picks, the latter has some nice throwback harmonies and double bass action which did make me wish there was more of that on the rest of the album.

Basically it's fine. Not the worst they've done, not their best but who's realistically expecting that? I'm just glad Metallica are still out their doing their thing; if they keep making music they'll keep touring, and so for anyone like this guy:

Good god. Nothing like a band of boomers pretending they can play metal.

Get yourself to a Metallica gig, even now they are brutally heavy live, they're definitely not pretending

 

[nightflameauto]

I think the thing that gets me with modern Metallica is they're still writing decent enough riffs, the drumming is as mediocre as everything we've had since the black album, and rather than piles riffs on top of riffs to make eight minute songs, they're still making eight minute songs, but out of just enough riffs and variations to make a two to three minute song feel tight and fun. By minute four you're going, "Is there something else?" By minute eight you're ears are begging for something new, and still getting the same thing thrown at them.

The singles have all felt that way to me. Like, mix it up a bit, guys. I don't even mind that things aren't always four hundred miles an hour like the old days. I'm older too, man. But slow + long + lack of variation gives me the snoozes. And us old fuckers need some excitement to keep the sandman at bay.

Speaking of which, if I never, EVER, hear Enter Sandman again? I'll still have heard it four thousand seven hundred thirty-two too many times. I even sorta dug that tune when it first came out, now it's like a freakish black force of nature, sucking my soul out one play at a time.

 

[HeHasTheJazzHands]

Hot take but I'm really liking it so far lol. Better than hardwired and way better than death magnetic

 

[Derek Spear]

LIstened to the album this night...Love Inamorata, crown of barbed wire & chasing light.
So much better then death magnetic and hardwired...

Pretty much sums up my feelings right here.

 

[soul_lip_mike]

I listened to puppets, AJFA, and Black album back to back this past weekend on a long drive. Compare those to this album. There's just nothing there that makes you want to listen a second time. Ugh.

 

[jaxadam]

Metallica does an amazing job at annoying both the older generation who grew up with them and the younger generation who doesn’t give a shit. Both generation have one huge thing in common; they state their preferences and opinions as fact and whine about a band they don’t have to listen to with the same ferocity.

🤜🤛

 

[SonicBlur]

Metallica can never win, it seems. If they make stuff that sounds old "they can't write anything original." When they write anything original "this is not the Metallica I know." If you want KEA, Ride the Lightning, etc then listen to those albums. What's the point of releasing new music if it all sounds like the same albums you've made for 30 years, lol. Everyone has personal tastes. Is this my favorite Metallica album? No. But it's new Metallica. There is not much else these guys can do at this point, they've done it all. I enjoyed this album a lot, FWIW.