Nah, it was only cause you said something, otherwise i wouldn’t have even thought about it.

Also, 72 Seasons must be one bitchin hotel

Album Rating: 3.5

Hmmm. Too long is first impression both in terms of each song and the overall runtime.

Reminds me of the last Megadeth album. The singles were the best but overall too samey with limited tradeoff. No problem with Lars drumming but the hi-hat and cymbals are way too prominent in the mix. In terms of the songs I'm not feeling them yet

Album Rating: 2.5

Their most boring album imo. No ideas, way too long songs and Hetfields vocals are quite annoying at times.

Album Rating: 2.5

Yeah the song lengths are getting outrageous.

Album Rating: 2.5

Then there’s Lux aeterna which sounds like AC/DC covering Metallica

Album Rating: 2.0

This album drags way harder than the second disc of hardwired. ZZZzzz

Album Rating: 3.0

‘Hmmm. Too long is first impression both in terms of each song and the overall runtime. Reminds me of the last Megadeth album.’



You know I feel that album had a lot more variety than this and if it was 77 minutes long I didn’t notice.



This just doesn’t have any difference in tone, texture, (seemingly) theme, tempo (well, barely)…I’ll give it five or six full listens minimum before rating it, right now I’m not feeling it.

Album Rating: 3.5

I'm really trying to be generous here, because it's not awful and you can listen to this while lifting weights, but this feels like a b-sides album of Hardwire.

Album Rating: 3.0

I feel like this production/performance style should have released Death Magnetic - but then apparently that album has an improved mix out there?



Death Magnetic had four or so near enough instantly memorable songs



First listen and no song stood out here at all

Album Rating: 2.5 | Sound Off

Yea, also not feeling this. It just plods along. The best aspects of this are James' voice and some little guitar fill melodies

Album Rating: 3.5

"but then apparently that album has an improved mix out there?"



I agree this and Hardwire have stellar production, but yeah the songs themselves are pretty mediocre overall (Hardwire has some highlights, though). The 2015 remaster of Death Magnetic sounds decent, closer to the production of Beyond Magnetic EP, but still inferior to this.

Ive heard the singles and while i 3.5 one of them i cant take another metallica album. Its asking too much

Album Rating: 3.0

Yeah, a bit frustrating - if you took the best songs/elements from the past three 75 minutes albums and put them into one 50 minute package you’d actually have a 4+ out of 5 album



Then again that’s similar to the Load/Reload era - there was one good 50 minute album from those sessions

Album Rating: 3.5

I think DM is better song consistency but ass production. Hardwired is perfect Side A and then whatever until SOTB. 72S is moments intermixed with a lot of meandering. One section would be great which is then undermined by the next part.

Album Rating: 3.0

Spit Out the Bone is probably the best individual track from the last three albums overall - maybe something from DM with a better performance and production could match it (All Nightmare Long?).



I’ll have to revisit Hardwired because there’s no way I currently think Side A is perfect

Album Rating: 1.0

worst album art period.

Album Rating: 3.0

I’m not sure I turn up for the album artwork for a Metallica album since before the Black album



The previous three were certainly no better, then do we gloss over Lulu, and then you have the ‘arty’ Load/Reload covers

> even a little psychedelic doom influence circa early 90s Trouble
Okay, maybe this is not going to be completely uninteresting. (Trouble 🖤)

Album Rating: 2.5 | Sound Off

72 Seasons is a masterpiece.



This is not meant to sound like hyperbole; Metallica's new album is the strongest, most powerful statement they've made as a band since ...And Justice For All.



There is no question that in the last 35 years since Justice was released, Metallica have created unforgettable, game-changing and historic records; the "Black Album" will forever reign supreme in its own universe as one of the greatest albums of all time and St. Anger will get the credit it deserves one day. But never have Metallica sounded angrier and yet more in control than they do on 72 Seasons—and it's largely thanks to James Hetfield.

Album Rating: 4.0

Sounds a lot better than expected!