Hetfield's vocal is pitch-corrected to such a degree it's actually distracting.
― ⓓⓡ (Johnny Fever), Monday, 28 November 2022 18:14 (one year ago) link
Lol yeah that long-held high note in the chorus is really pushing it
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 28 November 2022 18:33 (one year ago) link
This is ok, not an embarrassment and at this stage in Metallica's career "not an embarrassment" is pretty much an acceptable state of affairs. I note from Wikipedia that James' son is a drummer, maybe it's time they took him out on tour as Lars-backup as a precursor to shifting the line-up entirely to their offspring once the rest of them come of age.
― fretblanket is a band that really didn't need to reform (Matt #2), Monday, 28 November 2022 18:59 (one year ago) link
Greg Fidelman has an interesting engineering/mixing history, Adele, Toploader, Slipknot, Slayer, The Gossip, Supergrass, Neil Diamond
― MaresNest, Monday, 28 November 2022 19:09 (one year ago) link
Drums so quantized it sounds like 80s ZZ Top
― assert (matttkkkk), Monday, 28 November 2022 19:21 (one year ago) link
hardwired was fuckin great, really looking forward to this
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 28 November 2022 19:22 (one year ago) link
If Darkness Had a Son
lmao at this song title though
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 28 November 2022 19:23 (one year ago) link
ok have now heard "lux œterna" and yes doing a straight up throwback to their roots feels great, sounds good on them, fuckin' hyped for the record
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 28 November 2022 20:00 (one year ago) link
The Autotune on James's voice has been really annoying for years. They even used it heavily on S&M, he sounded so robotic
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Monday, 28 November 2022 20:09 (one year ago) link
These guys are still making albums?
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 28 November 2022 20:11 (one year ago) link
Nope just fake albums
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Monday, 28 November 2022 20:11 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsS5nw-U0iU
consider: james without autotune
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 28 November 2022 20:14 (one year ago) link
have zero interest in seeing these guys live but it's pretty, i dunno, neat? enterprising? something? that their upcoming tour is a 2-night ticket type of deal
― Murgatroid, Monday, 28 November 2022 20:17 (one year ago) link
Cocktails and canapés with Metallica
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 28 November 2022 20:19 (one year ago) link
I feel like the cover would be kind of cool if they took off the big M in the top right hand corner
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 28 November 2022 21:51 (one year ago) link
why'd they break the crib
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Monday, 28 November 2022 22:03 (one year ago) link
The instrumental part is actually very satisfying but everything about the vocals from the sound to the melody (minus the part where he says the track name which is actually p good) is dogshit
― zacata, Monday, 28 November 2022 22:05 (one year ago) link
https://i.redd.it/mi9my1snwrr21.jpg
― Master of Treacle, Monday, 28 November 2022 22:17 (one year ago) link
I liked Kirk's solo in the new song
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 28 November 2022 22:33 (one year ago) link
Going on the cover art, I’m looking forward to some ‘03 Dizzee Rascal influenced NWOBHM bangersFix up-ahWhoao-oh look sharp-ah
― Agnes, Agatha, Germaine and Jack (Willl), Tuesday, 29 November 2022 00:02 (one year ago) link
The tones are pretty solid but it's still somehow dorky
It's probably Scientology propaganda
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 29 November 2022 00:38 (one year ago) link
There's a very long and well-written for what it is profile of Metallica in the new issue of The New Yorker. It must have taken forfuckingever to write — there are quotes from all four current bandmembers, Dave Mustaine, Jason Newsted, Scott Ian, Ozzy Osbourne and probably some people I'm forgetting, and the writer (Amanda Petrusich) follows the band all over the place, to multiple concerts, rehearsals, and more — but the tone it takes, and its baked-in presumption that the New Yorker readership needs introducing to one of the five biggest bands on Earth, who would never sully their delicate shell-pink ears with rock and roll music, never mind heavy metal... it's kinda hilarious.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 29 November 2022 01:40 (one year ago) link
That’s the standard New Yorker tone, though… they’d write about Swiss cheese that way.
― "Mick Wall at Kerrang!" (morrisp), Tuesday, 29 November 2022 03:59 (one year ago) link
"This cheese has an unusual, remarkable feature: bubbles."
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 29 November 2022 04:06 (one year ago) link
Not too bad, thought I caught a Diamond Head nod in the lyrics as well, makes sense given the NWOBHM vibe.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 29 November 2022 06:07 (one year ago) link
Yeah, it's actually cute how Hey alludes to "Lightning to the Nations", pretty much admitting that he's well aware of the resemblance to that track.
― A. Begrand, Tuesday, 29 November 2022 12:14 (one year ago) link
It must have taken forfuckingever to write
Amanda posted that it took a year.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 29 November 2022 13:38 (one year ago) link
The music is well crafted but unexciting. The vocals are goofy even for Het, lyrics are awful.
― chap, Wednesday, 30 November 2022 08:33 (one year ago) link
Like Hardwired, I'll listen to the new album twice and conclude it's ok.
― chap, Wednesday, 30 November 2022 08:34 (one year ago) link
I thought the New Yorker piece was pretty disappointing, tbh. She's a great writer, one of my favorites, but I was not convinced by the angle. Though I suppose a problem could be that in 2022, what the fuck are you even supposed to write about Metallica?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 2 December 2022 14:10 (one year ago) link
― lets hear some blues on those synths (brimstead), Friday, 2 December 2022 21:52 (one year ago) link
St Anger was the first album I bought at midnight and put for sale on eBay at 2 am
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Friday, 2 December 2022 21:59 (one year ago) link
They've pushed and pulled the fundamentals of the music around in various ways over the years, but I wonder quite what is there left to say when you more or less wrote the book with your first few records, been the biggest rock band, toured the world loads of times.
A collab record with Peter Brötzmann, Colin Stetson, or Yamantaka Eye would probably kick ass, but the fanbase would get all huffy and confused.
― MaresNest, Friday, 2 December 2022 22:02 (one year ago) link
Lux Aeterna kinda rips? I loove how fast it is and i love Kirk’s solo. Soundwise to me it’s still in the same world as the last album, like they left it off bc too fast, but i guess i hear a little nwobhm in there too idg what the title means or why theyre singing about it but i don’t think that it matters the album cover looks pretty uh dumb to me but you can’t win them all
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 3 December 2022 01:54 (one year ago) link
Bunch of assholes.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 3 December 2022 01:56 (one year ago) link
Xpost it's about the thread on I Love AFL
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Saturday, 3 December 2022 02:05 (one year ago) link
lolmr veg and i were idly speculating on the album title & i was like well 72 divided by 4 is 18 maybe it’s like 18 albums and he was all maybe they mean concert seasons outdoor & stadium (cue me laughing and eyerolling)then this from hetfield soooo i guess the meaning is “i’ve been doing a LOT of therapy”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. — James Hetfield (2022)
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 3 December 2022 02:09 (one year ago) link
Prisoners probing possible personality pigeonholing.
― "Mick Wall at Kerrang!" (morrisp), Saturday, 3 December 2022 02:42 (one year ago) link
can't kill 'em all.
― pplains, Saturday, 3 December 2022 03:23 (one year ago) link
:(
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 3 December 2022 03:40 (one year ago) link
I don't like the new lyrics to "Dyer's Eve"
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Saturday, 3 December 2022 05:12 (one year ago) link
New song - "Screaming Suicide". Sounds like something they'd have written around the time of Death Magnetic; it has that same thrash-boogie feel. But the sound is crisper than Death Magnetic's was. Also, Hetfield has lost a bunch of weight and looks creepy now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDyDpdFZHBo
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 19 January 2023 23:22 (one year ago) link
I'm definitely feeling this a lot less than Lux Aeturna
― fentanyl young (Neanderthal), Thursday, 19 January 2023 23:27 (one year ago) link
It's unmemorable in the most literal sense — I've already forgotten how it goes. But at least it's fast, and I'll wind up listening to the album a thousand times just like I've done with Death Magnetic and Hardwired..., so it'll sink in eventually.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 19 January 2023 23:33 (one year ago) link
This sounds like so much generic stuff that would just fill space during "Headbanger's Ball" in the '90s.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 20 January 2023 01:03 (one year ago) link
Also, Hetfield has lost a bunch of weight and looks creepy now.
How can you tell through all the Vaseline smeared on the camera lens?
― Vexatious litigant (morrisp), Friday, 20 January 2023 01:20 (one year ago) link
Director: "Ok, now make one of those crazy Metallica grimaces, you know the ones, the ones you always do? The ones that look like you are both constipated and also very angry? Do one of those!"
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 20 January 2023 02:11 (one year ago) link
I'm too afraid I'll be disappointed to press play.
― I can't tell if he's trolling or not (ilxor), Friday, 20 January 2023 05:30 (one year ago) link
I'm pretty gutted that the year I might finally see Metallica live is one in which they'll be releasing a new album.
― chap, Friday, 20 January 2023 09:45 (one year ago) link
to me this is like a 5-star review
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Friday, 20 January 2023 11:19 (one year ago) link
It sounds so repetitive in the middle, at least after three listens. When I hear the twin harmonies on the excellent last two tracks I'm all, "we needed more of THIS!"
But I will say that none of the weaker tracks are bad. There's no "Unforgiven 4" here. But I can't shake the kind of fatigue and depression I feel whenever I want to torture myself with Load/Reload deep cuts.
― A. Begrand, Friday, 14 April 2023 14:30 (one year ago) link
yeah the twin harmonies at the end were really nice and something they've really underutilized in recent years.
it really does feel like a 'there's nothing BAD here, but there's not much great here either' album.
I'll revisit this morning, but then I'm going to the new Overkill
― Will.I.Am's fetid urine (Neanderthal), Friday, 14 April 2023 14:32 (one year ago) link
also very little thrash here, they very much wanted to go to the NWOBHM well. which is cool! but there aren't many moments when you'll want to flail your limbs
The one weird thing that sticks out for me is, this is the first time they've included "studio talkback" stuff on a for-real album (as opposed to the Garage Days EP), and I don't love it or hate it, it's a value-neutral proposition for me, but I'm wondering why they chose to do it. To make them seem more human and less like cyborg riff machines? Unnecessary. But maybe Meshuggah should try that...
Anyway, I'm quite deliberately not paying any attention to the lyrics and focusing on the riffs, and...they rule. I made it all the way through twice yesterday and will go back again today.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 14 April 2023 15:03 (one year ago) link
lars absolutely killing it on this record :)
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 14 April 2023 15:56 (one year ago) link
the opening of the first song has me mf hyped
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 14 April 2023 16:01 (one year ago) link
If I'm being honest, after one listen to each, I prefer the new Overkill.
At an appointment with dad so Metallica back up next
― Will.I.Am's fetid urine (Neanderthal), Friday, 14 April 2023 17:26 (one year ago) link
I tried with the new Overkill, but as always, Blitz's voice is a deal-breaker. He's on the wrong side of the Udo line for me.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Saturday, 15 April 2023 00:34 (one year ago) link
lol:
i'm getting reports our new video for metallica has killed dozens, perhaps hundreds of their fans 😓 if you're a fan of real music DO NOT WATCH pic.twitter.com/QgojsBd3NV— sam rolfes (@samrolfes) April 17, 2023
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 19 April 2023 16:26 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv5Rhp3fX60
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 26 April 2023 21:06 (one year ago) link
I started watching that, but 1) super drummer vs. Lars is no contest and 2) I don't want to hear that song more than once, if that.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 26 April 2023 21:12 (one year ago) link
spent a little more time with this and i think it's the most consistent of their back-to-thrash releases even tho i mean "consistent" in a slightly damning way, like there are only a few songs as good as "all nightmare long" or the entire first disc of hardwired. still the title track has been stuck in my head for weeks. think every song is at least ok but the album really hits a stride from "lux aeterna" on and i kinda wish the album was the title track, "shadows follow," and then that run
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 5 May 2023 15:43 (one year ago) link
pretty otm there. the songwriting is consistent, more of the bad excesses of Hardwired and Death Magnetic lopped out, and there's a better flow to each song, but at the same point, it's kinda like being a contact hitter in baseball, they're getting on base more, but it's mostly singles.
few songs that utterly blow me away. I've only relistened once since drop date. I relistened to Hardwired more.
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Friday, 5 May 2023 15:52 (one year ago) link
I wound up watching a really well-shot audience cam of night two of the Amsterdam shows, and was struck by how it seemed more mechanical than you'd expect from Metallica. Minimal interaction, just two hours of material broken up into half hour quarters. No encores, no extras, just "Here's Enter Sandman, goodnight." And the band looks oddly dwarfed by the huge roller derby stage. The aerial camera angles are super cool, but I'm not sold on this in-the-round concept for football stadiums.
The way these shows are structured, they really want to coax fans to both concerts, which is understandable I suppose. Plus the guys probably don't want to do epic two and a half, three hour sets anymore. But having seen these guys play for nearly 40 years, this set felt oddly devoid of fun.
Though starting both shows with Orion and Ktulu is a wicked idea. Love it.
― A. Begrand, Friday, 5 May 2023 17:23 (one year ago) link
Hey would you look at that, Lars' dad is still around. 94 and I hope he's thriving.
― Random Restaurateur (Jordan), Friday, 5 May 2023 20:06 (one year ago) link
v dumb metallica ranking ahoy
(lulu)justicekill 'em allmaster of puppetsride the lightningst. angermetallicareloadhardwired.../72 seasonsloaddeath magnetic
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Sunday, 7 May 2023 14:18 (one year ago) link
I don't know about dumb, everyone has their own history with Metallica. Mine is probably:
And Justice For All / Ride The LightningMaster Of PuppetsKill Em AllLuluHardwired / Death MagneticBlack Album72 SeasonsLoad / ReloadSt. Anger
The new one, the energy is there and I like the production but the riffs aren't that great and the songs all stretch out to lengths that can't be justified due to the (lack of) strength of aforementioned riffs, it's a real slog.
I guess it's a question of time until someone edits these songs down to a more concise "42 Seasons".
― Siegbran, Monday, 8 May 2023 06:58 (one year ago) link
Master of PuppetsAnd Justice For AllRide the LightningLuluKill 'Em AllMetallica72 SeasonsSt. AngerHardwiredReloadLoadDeath Magnetic
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 8 May 2023 14:29 (one year ago) link
Ok, here's my comprehensive list of Metallica albums that I would feel like listening to again
And Justice for AllMaster of PuppetsRide the LightningLuluMetallicaHardwiredLoadKill 'Em All
― Random Restaurateur (Jordan), Monday, 8 May 2023 14:51 (one year ago) link
Master of PuppetsLuluKill Em AllAnd Justice For AllRide the LightningBlack AlbumThe single-album edit Spotify playlist I made of Hardwired to Self Destruct
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 8 May 2023 15:00 (one year ago) link
The single-album edit Spotify playlist I made of Hardwired to Self Destruct
Oh yeah obviously this is implied
― Random Restaurateur (Jordan), Monday, 8 May 2023 15:08 (one year ago) link
if were just the first disc + "spit out the bone" it'd be right below ride the lightning on my list
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 8 May 2023 15:09 (one year ago) link
haha i hadn't listened to mine in forever, and that's exactly what I ended up doing back then
HardwiredAtlas, Rise!Now That We're DeadHalo on FireMoth into FlameDream No MoreSpit Out the Bone
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 8 May 2023 15:21 (one year ago) link
"ManUNkind" is one of the dumbest song titles in history
Naming a song ManUNKind definitely makes it a funny Metallica alb
Xpost goddammit
― Qeq-hauau-ent-pehui (Neanderthal), Monday, 8 May 2023 15:22 (one year ago) link
Probably my favorite stupid song title since Yelawolf's "Slumerican Shitizen"
― Qeq-hauau-ent-pehui (Neanderthal), Monday, 8 May 2023 15:23 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edkV2e0wYxs
god this song rules
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Saturday, 13 May 2023 14:30 (one year ago) link