SamDBL wrote:Like the last few things, this sounds like a total compromise between trying to please their older fans of their thrash stuff and the fans that came on board once they went hard rock. And, like the last few things, it sounds fairly mediocre. I've heard better, and I've heard worse. The lyrics are super goofy. Certainly doesn't match up to their first three records. And not even as cool as the black album. The last couple albums were billed as come backs, and they both put me to sleep. They are one of these bands that just seem like it would be so easy to get back to basics and knock it out of the park... But something just seems to hold them back every time. Soul asylum and queensryche are kind of the same. The difference is that Metallica has achieved this Pink Floyd iconic status of eternally selling out stadiums and maintaining a massive fans base no matter how bad the albums get.
akissfan wrote:Sounds exactly like something off Death/Beyond Magnetic.
I know their way of writing is riffs riffs riffs and then throw a vocal over the top. It used to work for them but now it just sounds amateur to me. "Riff #1 could go into riff #2 and then do a few cymbal grabs and go right back into riff #1. Then go into riff #2 but do it half time." Then throw a vocal that has no melody over the top of it? Or the vocal melody doesn't jive with the riff?
Sorry, not digging it. Quite a few of the old school metal bands are coming out with way better material than Metallica. Anthrax-Breathing Lightning. Slayer-Repentless. New Prong album. Last Obituary album.
IMO
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