Album Rating: 3.5

100%

Album Rating: 3.0

i'll take the uneven one with the way higher highs over something more standard anytime

Album Rating: 4.0

tbh i think i'm still pretty undecided. listened to hardwired in full last night. first half i was like yeah absolutely better than 72 seasons no question. second half made me walk that back hard

Album Rating: 3.0

does leave a sour taste, if it the disk order was reversed though i bet most would prefer hardwired because it would leave you feeling good.

Album Rating: 4.0

seeing them TONIGHT its gonna be raining hard af but they're still gonna play it seems. at the commanders stadium so its completely outdoors.

Album Rating: 2.0

it may just be how disappointing it is to me that a band that was ahead of their time and creating iconic songs that'd last through generations reduced itself to just trying to latch onto their old legacy because everyone bullied them for trying to go bold. just gives me a feeling of... inauthenticity, like they're writing just to please people who don't want anything new.

Album Rating: 3.5

you’re exactly right

Album Rating: 3.0

^^ Look, 'St. Anger' came out around the time of their 'Some Kind of Monster' walts-n'-all documentary that did a great job of getting the viewer on-side for what should have been their victory lap... the triumph over adversity.

It was a shit album. A career nadir, that whilst (very) arguably "bold", lacked anything that made them "ahead of their time" or having anything like the "iconic songs" you're talking about.

Also, it wasn't the supposedly bold statement you claim it it is... in said documentary, we clearly hear Kirk's protests re. lack of solos, claiming it merely echoed then-current trends (i.e. trend chasing, which he was SO right about).

Every proper album since ('Lulu' aside), is better. IMO, the "bullying" of the band (ironic use of the term, considering what they did to Newstead) is simply saying that not everything they shit out smells of roses.

Album Rating: 3.0

i'd def be more interesting in them truly doing whatever they want. load felt truly authentic in that respect, drawing from what they were listening to at the time. no way they've been listening to metal now if they weren't 30 years ago lol.



i get the feeling these albums are a way to save their legacy but idk i'll never truly know

Album Rating: 3.5

'seeing them TONIGHT'



that's fucking awesome, embrace the wet......you'll get the prime setlist since it's only one show at the venue......i get em June 8 at Raymond James

Album Rating: 3.5

I was gonna see them in Denver i think June 26 but i had to sell my tickets to make some money

Album Rating: 2.0

I mean maybe these guys are just washed and have nothing left to say...fine enough, just be a touring act that plays the iconic stuff, no need to dilute the pool with half-baked retreads imo

Album Rating: 3.0

meh i'd take a decent album occasionally over nothing at all

Album Rating: 3.5

Personally i think metallica needs to do another Garage Inc album and that’d be good enough. Im surprised they havent gotten around to another one yet

Album Rating: 4.0

alright yeah they fucking killed it. james is cooking so hard vocal-wise right now, sounded way better than when i saw them in 2018. whole band did honestly.



definitely knew they were in dc, kirk and rob played some fugazi during their doodle. also coincidentally pulled out leper messiah in what was otherwise a greatest hits set lmao.

Album Rating: 3.5

Interesting, i was gonna ask if they played any deep cuts. I’d take “leper messiah” as the sole deep cut ngl. I saw them in dallas back in 2022 and the deepest cut they played was “whiskey in the jar” lol

Album Rating: 2.0

"meh i'd take a decent album occasionally over nothing at all"



Yeah I'll never understand the "band should stop making music" shit. Even one good new song that i can play over and over is a big win for me. Especially for legacy bands



This album doesn't have it though lol

Album Rating: 2.0

I think the issue for me is the complete absence of new ideas or forward motion. Like, everything here feels like a poorly drawn replica of something they did better in the 90s and 80s, and the production sounds so identical to Hardwired. I'd probably be more forgiving if it didn't demand 80 minutes of my time ig Megadeth has this issue but they kept the runtime slightly more in check

LEAVE MEGADETH ALONE

Album Rating: 3.5

Besides Iron Maiden no band active in 1983 is bringing new ideas to the table inthr 2020s