Album Rating: 2.5

Shame they never released that third Load album (ThreeLoad), the world needs to see the shit and vomit cover. And don’t even get me started on the FOURTH Load album cover art

Album Rating: 2.0

Horrific mixing.

Limp, practically nonexistent songwriting.

Dogshit soloing from Kirk.

Like maybe three vocal melodies of note.



What's the point? Their creative process at this point is basically assembling disjointed generic riffs into a 7-minute song while Hetfield yodels over them.

Album Rating: 3.5

lel

Album Rating: 3.0

Oof

Too soon to rate it, but after one listen I'm not sure if I wanna listen to that bloated mess again. The mix is awful, especially the drums sound lifeless and bland. The guitars are just chugging along, no dynamics, no clean passages, just riff after riff after riff. Kirk's solos are uninspired, Lars plays like a Lars AI. At least Rob does a decent job. James' vocals are ok, but his lyrics are not. Not a single memorable line, he basically just rambles incoherently in the verses before he repeats a single phrase over and over in most choruses.

It's just a big meh.

Album Rating: 3.0

With all of the money, resources and experience I don’t see how this band can’t manage to put out one great album over the past several decades. Do they use the same shitty producer every time or what?

Album Rating: 2.0 | Sound Off

same shitty producers



Greg Fidelman – production, mixing, recording

Sara Lyn Killion – engineering

Jim Monti – engineering

Jason Gossman – additional engineering, digital editing

Kent Matcke – assistant engineering

Dan Monti – digital editing

Bob Ludwig – mastering

David Turner – cover art

Somebody getting paid for this album cover shows that, sometimes, it’s who you know

Album Rating: 2.5

Virginity underrated.

Album Rating: 3.5

I need to listen to this (only listened to the singles) but holy god I'm not looking forward to it just because of the horrible production. I have no idea how they made it worse than Death Magnetic.

Album Rating: 3.3

@Smok: Yeah, but that list probably should have included James and Lars, since they co-produced it. And let's be honest... given their track record with the production of previous Metallica albums, they're probably the main culprits here as well

Album Rating: 2.0

I have no fucking idea what to rate this



No songs were bad but I don't really remember anything that happened during my listening experience lol

Album Rating: 3.0

^sounds about right.

This already has 12 pages what the what

Album Rating: 2.5

This is the metal equivalent of beige

Album Rating: 3.0

It’s Metallica, the most overrated and over discussed band in history. Par for the course.

Album Rating: 3.0

I have no fucking idea what to rate this



No songs were bad but I don't really remember anything that happened during my listening experience lol



You rate it after you've given it multiple spins and soaked it in instead of just rushing a rating out that your probably just going to change later anyway lol. This is better than alot of you are giving it credit for tho easily on par with the last album. It's just more of the same is all

Album Rating: 3.0

I wouldn’t be surprised if I end up liking this album a lot. Haha. I thought Hardwired was fun.

Album Rating: 3.0

Yeah I dig this a lot. It's modern metallica I'm cool with that. Whole album is solid it's metallica being metallica and having fun. On par with magnetic for me

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