Lol I agree. As bad as this is, Risk and Super Collider are two of the only albums I can think of, of any genre, that I'd be genuinely embarrassed to be caught listening to.
They're like the album equivalent of the 45 year old bro who still lives in mom and dad's basement.
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Album Rating: 1.5
"As a 90's kid, it feels really sad that the moment you start listening to metallica and learning they're going to release an album when you have just started listening to them, it becomes the worst album they released at that point."
The same thing happened to alot of 80's kids who got to hear The Black Album (Metallica) for the very first time...
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Album Rating: 2.5
I'm not even kidding when i say that i always loved the snare here
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Album Rating: 2.0
People make too big a deal about it
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Album Rating: 1.5
One of the worst snare sounds in history
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Album Rating: 1.5
But lars probably thinks it's a cool sound...
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Album Rating: 2.5
I do
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"I'm not even kidding when i say that i always loved the snare here"
While I do think the sound (both snare and overall) is quite bad here, I also think it's unironically fascinating as a case study in middle-aged men trying to reverse engineer nu-metal. Like it's SO obvious they were trying to fit in with the Mudvaynes and the Slipknots and the SOADs but had no understanding of what actually made those bands good or why people liked them
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Album Rating: 1.5
The gold standard for shitty snares
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Album Rating: 1.0
i for one sure am glad we are spending precious oxygen and electricity discussing this album in the year of our lord 2008+12
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Album Rating: 2.0
Rules
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Album Rating: 1.5
Don’t focus so much on the snare that you forget how shitty everything else is
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Album Rating: 2.5
Lazy songwriting is my main issue here
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"While I do think the sound (both snare and overall) is quite bad here, I also think it's unironically fascinating as a case study in middle-aged men trying to reverse engineer nu-metal. Like it's SO obvious they were trying to fit in with the Mudvaynes and the Slipknots and the SOADs but had no understanding of what actually made those bands good or why people liked them"
While this is totally true, I think at the same time they genuinely tried to go back to their roots here without just aping their 80s material (like they arguably did on DM). Like how does Metallica fit into the early 00s where being aggressive and heavy is "cool" again... but not in the same way Metallica made it cool way back when? This was their answer.
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I don't even think the songwriting is all that bad here aside from every track being entirely too long. The main downfall of this record is the band essentially not letting Bob Rock do his job. I feel bad that he gets so much shit for this album, especially considering the black album, load, and reload all sound like they could've came out today despite being 25-30 year old albums.
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Album Rating: 2.5
that pang pang pang drum + songs being too long were what ruined the album, for sure. there's no reason for this to be 75 mins long.
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Yeah this album is a flaming trainwreck but honestly I respect it more than Death Magnetic or Hardwired because at least they were trying to think outside the box a little instead of just coasting on being Metallica and doing The Metallica Thing
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Album Rating: 2.0
theres actually a few ok songs on this imo
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Album Rating: 2.5
The Unnamed Feeling is legit
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Album Rating: 2.5
yea!!!
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