Anyone gonna buy new Metallica album?

[Blacksabbath25]

All most forgotten... BBC 1 it's on catchup Metallica at BBC 1 playing 3 new songs of the new album and 2 old songs and interview with the band *smile*

 

[bigfish786]

What I've heard has not converted me. More likely has put me off even more.

from being a young teenager, going to my first Metallica gig, around 1989 to how I feel about the music now, are polar opposites.

Maybe i "over played" their albums, to the point where I'm sick to death of them.?

whatever it is, I just can't bring myself around to buying the new album.

in contrast, I had Dystopia on pre-order for months before release!

 

[jjbomber]

By the way had a decent skim through the new album on Spotify and must say it's rather good. My 6 years old son likes it and he usually has a good taste

Number 1 in 57 countries. Top 3 in 75 countries. Top 5 in 105 countries.

I didn't know 105 countries had official charts!!!

 

[Blacksabbath25]

I think you should give the new Metallica album a chance *smile*

not sure if your heard the deluxe version or not but the more I listen the more I like

I think for me there's only 1 track I found a bit lame i also like old school Metallica and I also just bought megadeth latest album to give it a try as I did not like the albums before they were rubbish . I liked everything up to countdown to extinction anyway bands move on and at least Metallica have tried to go back to their roots .

 

[Muddywaterstones]

Best work they have done since the Load albums. Yes, I will go out on a limb and defend those two albums (even though there is only one disc worth of decent tunes between them) as the Black album was the real problematic disc in their career for me. I always saw Load as a return to form rather than an abandoning of principles.

One of the things that has always worked against them was the production on their albums. Puppets was probably their best ever work but recorded so badly/quietly it almost ruins the album. Justice cut the bass, had an odd drum sound (especially the double bass - like a stapler on speed) and was flat. Black was well done but totally commercial. Load a return to form. Re-load a continuation obviously.

St Anger was an album of good ideas with the most horrible drum sound I've ever heard. My 5 year old thwacking the radiators sounds better.Then there is Death Magnetic. This was actually a return to form but the production got turned to 11. Compression city. It is the most tiring album I like which I've ever been subjected to.

Now for Hardwired, I know Lars likes to be involved in the production but finally someone has managed to temper his enthusiasm for putting the drum parts to the fore. This is an album which really showcases James and Rob . There are some great drum parts but you can just tell they have been overdubbed in the studio.

Kirk seeem to straddle two camps. There are the improvised solos that aren't too worked out but there is also the banal reproduction of everything he has done on the last few albums. All I'm looking for from him is a few textural differences. Every solo doesn't have to be killer though he does have a few moments like on "Revenge".

Metallica have been my band since I was 12. I've outgrown them to some extent but I always expect more from them. I almost wish to see James cut free from the Metallica machine, just to see what he would come up with, almost as much vocally and lyrically as on guitar.

Sure there are one or two duds on the disc but generally it is as strong as I've heard in a long time. I especiallly love the tribute to Lemmy which has been critically slated. In my best American slang, I would describe that riff as sick.

 

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They're playing some tracks on the red button just now on a loop bbc radio 1 live at maida Vale studios.