Album Rating: 2.5
You Must Burn! is one masterfully written track, it cannot be helped
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Album Rating: 2.5 | Sound Off
The lead section in Room of Mirrors is my favorite moment of the album
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Album Rating: 3.5
came in at #2 on the Billboard 200......that's disappointing
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Album Rating: 3.5
yeah room of mirrors is neat
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drumming on this is comedy, impossible to take seriously
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Album Rating: 3.0
He's phil rudd nowdays just with snare fills every song lol. It's not bad Drumming just lazy and unimaginative. Much love to Lars but yeah
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Album Rating: 3.5
shadows follow slowly becoming one of my favourites, this song riffs.
Also, this might be better than black album. Fight me.
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Album Rating: 3.5
Shadows Follow is one of my favorites as well. Love those chugging riffs around the 3 minute mark.
Also, I like Lars’ drumming. Simple yet effective.
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Album Rating: 3.4 | Sound Off
I should have mentioned this was a grower. I had it for a week or so before release, so it had time to grow while I was prepping for the review. I'm glad people are giving it multiple chances because it is good.
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Album Rating: 3.5
Your defense of this record was certainly warranted, knowing what we know now. That week head start had you where we are now…
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Album Rating: 3.5
"Of the three most recent releases, Death Magnetic is my least favorite. There's a few songs I really like, but the rest feels bland to me".
"I should have mentioned this was a grower. I had it for a week or so before release, so it had time to grow while I was prepping for the review. I'm glad people are giving it multiple chances because it is good".
Well there's 2 more opinions that I agree with Willie. Chuck in your cradle ranking on the Damnation thread and we've got a lot in common I must say
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Album Rating: 3.5
Nice 4.0 titan. I prefer Load to this - even though Load was probably the most disappointed I've been in a new album ever haha
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Album Rating: 3.5
This album is a grower for sure. I enjoy it far more than I thought I ever would. "Sleepwalk My Life Away" is the only filler song imo
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Album Rating: 4.0
kill em all isn't even better than load... let alone this 🤨
load squadron assemble 🫡
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Album Rating: 2.5
This is better than Death Magnetic but still too long. And those solos are atrocious
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Album Rating: 3.5
Overall, this is probably the strongest in quality of their post St Anger records. They actually tried on this one and even though there's some sections and parts that drag too long or don't do anything for you, overall it's really pretty solid, especially for their age. It feels like they finally settled into a sound that encapsulates all the styles they've done and they handle it pretty well. Room Of Mirrors, Inamorata, Too Far Gone and the title track really bring home the classic Metallica feel better than anything they've done since Black and Justice. Spit Out The Bone might be the best track they've done since the Justice days but there's a few on here that comfortably get to that level, imo.
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Album Rating: 3.0
this is their best since black album prolly yeah
good take
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Album Rating: 3.5
hardwired is better
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Album Rating: 3.4 | Sound Off
This release also had the side-effect of getting me back into the band, in general. I hadn't really intentionally listened to them in awhile (meaning I only listened if a song shuffled through), but I've pretty much revisited their discography and wasted a few different nights down the Metallica YouTube rabbit hole.
@Muzz79: It's not often my musical opinions line up so seamlessly, ha ha.
Edit: It seems I'm not the only one that the new release has kind of re-introduced Metallica to. I have noticed a lot of Metallica threads since this album's release.
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Album Rating: 4.0
"This release also had the side-effect of getting me back into the band, in general. I hadn't really intentionally listened to them in awhile (meaning I only listened if a song shuffled through), but I've pretty much revisited their discography"
i read somewhere that this is a big reason why many legacy artists continue to release album after album way past their prime... the back catalog sees a huge jump in streams/sales on top of what they get from the new album
you can see it on the band's spotify right now even, heavily advertised new album drops yet 7/10 of their top songs are still from their back catalogue. typically the entire new album takes over the top 10 for most artists for months, but people are jamming sandman, puppets etc. just as much if not more than the new album... and like someone said earlier this debuted #2 on billboard so not like the album is underperforming or anything
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