Album Rating: 3.5

Haha. Good song or not. Imho ofc

it's a yay or nay track by track review. The most based type of review in existence

Album Rating: 2.5 | Sound Off

I did a second listen with a condensed tracklist and it was quite okay. Might condense it even further, since I can't edit the songs themselves



And yes, the yay or nay track review format is based as hell

Album Rating: 3.5

Jammed this thing all wkd. Still love ‘em. Esp Het

damn their arrogance. Metallica think they can release an album almost an hour+half long and expect people to listen to the whole thing.

Album Rating: 3.5

Muzz bro, you dont care for Shadows Follow? I quite like that one...

Feel like this is a discography I NEED to listen to, but also feel like I'm too late to the party. Every time I hear anything Metallica, new or old, it just seems a little stale to me. I think the biggest problem is that I hear their influence in absolutely everything I listen to, so Metallica sounds unintentionally generic, and I don't want to go in with a warped opinion... Is it worth the plunge?

Album Rating: 3.5

Yo titan it has that shortest straw feel to it but hasn’t fully clicked yet. Agree hardwired trumps this

Album Rating: 2.5

@MyMentality, IMO Master of Puppets and Ride The Lightning are definitely worth digging deeper; a lot of people may argue about Kill 'em All and ...And Justice for All as well. After that, find a Best of Playlist and you'll be fine.

Album Rating: 4.0

yeah 2.5 listens in i think i definitely prefer hardwired overall. hardwired may have five tracks that are worse than anything on here, but i'd also say spit out the bone, halo on fire, moth into flame, and atlas rise are probably all better than anything on here.



both albums are way too long and i'll barely listen to this anyways by the end of the month (haven't jammed hardwired in full since like 2017???) so i'll take the album with more definitive highlights i might throw in a playlist than the one that's more consistent.

Album Rating: 4.0

hypothetical 72 hardwireds tracklist:



1) hardwired

2) atlas, rise!

3) crown of barbed wire

4) moth into flame

5) dream no more

6) halo on fire



7) 72 seasons

8) shadows follow

9) lux aeterna

10) too far gone?

11) room of mirrors

12) spit out the bone



7 minutes shorter than both the actual albums somehow despite keeping 12 tracks lol

I have listened to Master of Puppets way back when, but it didn't a strike a chord with me sadly. Think I might appreciate it more now though, will definitely give the first few albums a spin and see how I go from there.

Album Rating: 3.0

this feels like their worst offering since st. anger. i appreciate them trying to throw it back, but it just doesn't work that well. and lars sucks.

Album Rating: 3.5

every song on this is in the 3/5 - 3.5/5 range. i'd give a 4/5 to "Inamorata" and "sleepwalk my life away". my average tracklisting for this a 3.41, which is about perfectly where i sit with this.

Album Rating: 2.5

Like, what do you expect from these guys at this level? Even within the frame of a concept like going back to your teenage selves, the repetitiveness, lazy songwriting and their mixing tones are making them deteriorate so far away from even their Load/Reload stuff. They are really trying to emulate that grunge energy which just gets neutered in this modern metal sound. It's flat, it's uneventful and it's missing all the spice. Where The Wild Things Are wipes this off the map effortlessly.

Album Rating: 3.0

Would have been so much better if they trimmed out the fillers and went for a 45 minute album instead of 1h:20m.

Album Rating: 3.0

yeah after about six listens I agree there's a pretty decent 45 minute album here



it's somewhat of a grower

the first half of the first paragraph is so true unfortunetely, I feel like that about everything now, it is not that I do not want to enjoy new experiances, it is that everything in this new age sucks, it has taken all the originality and diversity out of everything due to tech and algorithems to find what people will like or not. I want to be surprised, but everything is the same and watered down and had been doen before but better. I am surte that is the problem here. I'm sure the new album is decent, it cant be terrible, but is it breaking new ground no, because how can it.

Album Rating: 2.5

Also feeling this somewhat. Relistening to DM and HWTSD for comparisons

"Feel like this is a discography I NEED to listen to, but also feel like I'm too late to the party. Every time I hear anything Metallica, new or old, it just seems a little stale to me. I think the biggest problem is that I hear their influence in absolutely everything I listen to, so Metallica sounds unintentionally generic, and I don't want to go in with a warped opinion... Is it worth the plunge?"

My thoughts exactly. I dabbled in their discography when I first got into heavy music, but was put off by what I felt sounded like generic metal. Hard to reconcile that the progenitors of much of the music I would later listen to were the same ones that I struggled to get into.

I think my opinion of them was poisoned during the Napster era as I felt like the whole band came off sounding like disconnected, wealthy dicks trying to masquerade as a broke band in an effort to paint P2P in as bad of a light as possible. On the musical side, I've never really vibed with Lars's playing style or Hetfield's vocals.

Even listening to the opening riffs (which have a lot of Enter Sandman vibes) on "Sleepwalk My Life Away" (which my head canon says they lifted from a lyric off a Parkway Drive song), I kept wishing the tempo was a little quicker. Some of Metallica's songs are just...plodding I guess. I really don't need every song to eclipse the 6-minute mark.