Album Rating: 3.0
Apparently they spent a *lot* of money on the production of this one. Tried a bunch of different things to make it sound as heavy as possible. Can't imagine them trying nearly that hard now
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Album Rating: 4.0
It wasn't a trend back then to compress & maximize the audio levels.
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Album Rating: 3.0
That was only a problem with Death Magnetic tho, wasn' it? Production on Hardwired sounds fine to me
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Album Rating: 3.0
Death Magnetic's production is by far the worst part about that album. I find it hard to listen to now.
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Album Rating: 4.0
this album is really fucking good actually
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Best guitar tone
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Album Rating: 3.5
Yup
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Album Rating: 3.0
I look on this a bit more favorably now than I used to. Really can't justify giving this the same score as the subsequent two albums when there's much more filler and just outright crap stuff on them.
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Album Rating: 4.0
shut up Casavir
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Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off
decent album is decent, deal with it
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Album Rating: 3.5
Album hasn't aged as well as the past 4, but it's solid. My Friend of Misery is superb.
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Can’t remember the last time I listened to this one.
Prob the Metallica album I’ve listened to the least besides hardwired ofc
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Album Rating: 3.5
I keep reading reviews where people calling this AC/DC or Aerosmith-esque. This sounds nothing like either of those bands. To me Metallica was definitely taking inspirstion from Pantera. Tell you me don’t hear them Panteraing the fuck outta Sad But True and Dont Tread On Me...in alternate universes those are Pantera originals.
Even Enter Sandman has a midpaced groove metal riff you’d expect from Vulgar-era Pantera
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Album Rating: 5.0
It's light Pantera produced by a known pop and rock music producer
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Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off
there's definetly groove metal on here, though Metallica always did some groove metal. "Leper Messiah" is like a precursor to Pantera tbh
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I hear 0 Pantera on here lmao
Hell this was out like six months before Vulgar Display even
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I hear 0 Pantera on here lmao
Hell this was out like six months before Vulgar Display even... if anything Pantera was influenced by this.
And they were already doing that slow tempo/heavy riffs thing on past albums. To Live is to Die, The Thing That Should Not Be, fucking Harvester of Sorrow... I wouldn’t even say Cowboys from Hell has much of that honestly, that album is way more of a thrash album than yall seem to remember.
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Album Rating: 3.5
CBF is very thrashy.
You seriously hear no Pantera on Sad But True? Even the edgy lyrics reek of Phil’s signature machismo shit
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No it sounds like James Hetfield. Listen to Seattle 89 or any of their live stuff from the Justice era... James had the whole chad machismo thing in the bag already, just hadn't really made it to record yet.
Again, considering Pantera was still a straight up hair metal band when Metallica was touring Justice, and were just releasing Cowboys from Hell (which while popular, wasn't anywhere near the seismic shift Vulgar Display was) while Metallica was making this album... I have a very hard time believing Metallica was trying to ride Pantera's wave with tracks like Sad But True. This album was already multiple times platinum by the time Pantera really asserted their influence on everything.
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Album Rating: 3.5
Yeah Allergist, it's a weird take.
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