Album Rating: 1.5 | Sound Off

>Watchtower ruined Metallica?



damn johnny on fire today 2 for 2

Album Rating: 3.5

johnny reviewing a metal record is like an englishman reviewing a restaurant

Album Rating: 1.5 | Sound Off

yea well a dead clock is right twice a day

Album Rating: 4.5

I don't care about lyrics unless they're offensively bad, and these ain't it for the most part. There's some leftover teenage angst going on here for sure, but their mate died so that's explainable. Strongly disagree about the songwriting, I think it's great for the most part, but to each his own I guess. As for the fluctuating energy levels, I don't think I ever liked an even keel album from start to finish, you gotta tone it down and ramp it up in certain spots, but I know you understand this so I don't really see that as valid criticism here

Album Rating: 2.5

Lyrics are defo the last problem on this album. Being boring as fuck is the main issue, really. This has gotten away with it for so long because



a) it's not the Black Album, so metal purists defend it,

b) it's got long songs, so neckbeard fuckwits (uhh, lotta overlap with metal purists here) overintellectualise it.

This album spends more time in mid-tempo than upbeat territory to begin with, and the abstract value of variegated pacing is absolutely no excuse for how badly Eye of the Beholder and Harvester of Sorrow drag their feet - those two are so turgid that the criticism doesn't even need to consider sequencing
lyrics are probably the least significant of my gripes, don't normally mind Hetfield in soapbox mode so the degree to which it grates here is probably partially compound interest on everything else wrong
and tbqh the Black Album (while far from perfect) blows this out of the water, would take that over it 10 times out of 10

Album Rating: 4.5

Now that's a take

Album Rating: 4.5

Bring back thrash vocalists on soapboxes!

Album Rating: 2.0

black album destroys this turd of a record, agreed

Album Rating: 1.5 | Sound Off

even smok would rather hear sandman than SHORTEST SHTRAAAAAAH

Album Rating: 4.5

smok is a troll tho so his opinion is discounted

Album Rating: 5.0

"This album spends more time in mid-tempo than upbeat territory to begin with"



this album is unironically a super influential groove metal record yeah.

Groove metal probably a bottom 5 genre OAT so ig that figures

Album Rating: 2.5

jesus that take is making me want to drop my rating for this

Album Rating: 3.5

lol same kinda

Album Rating: 4.0

"b) it's got long songs, so neckbeard fuckwits (uhh, lotta overlap with metal purists here) overintellectualise it."



The hardest cope I've ever seen lol

Album Rating: 3.5

They're no Opeth tho that's for sure (thank god)

I dig the lyrics, but whatever.

Album Rating: 3.5

" the abstract value of variegated pacing"



daddy chill

eat my arse you american tramp