New Metallica
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New Metallica
Legitimately unsure how I felt about this one. It definitely sounds like they're trying to be thrash again, except for the parts that sound like Load. Overall not awful, but I didn't rush to put it on my playlist, and I'm in no hurry to listen to it again. Big shoulder shrug from me.
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Re: New Metallica
It’s not so much the riffs but James’ vocals that do modern Metallica in for me…. Yayyyeeeahhhhh
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Re: New Metallica
This. It sounds like a song that Dave Mustaine wrote but didn't think was good enough for Kill Em All.
Lars does at least sound like he's playing to the track, instead of getting confused and playing along to a Saxon track in his headphones, which seemed to be his approach to Kill Em All, Ride the Lightening, Master of Puppets...
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Re: New Metallica
Kirk cribbed half the licks in that solo from Master of Puppets haha. Maybe they're trying to connect with the Stranger Things kids who've just discovered them.
Solid thrashy track but generationally I've always preferred the Black/Load/Reload era Metallica over thrashy Metallica so my opinion probably doesn't count haha.
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Solid thrashy track but generationally I've always preferred the Black/Load/Reload era Metallica over thrashy Metallica so my opinion probably doesn't count haha.
Also, I guess we know what Elon's next child is gonna be called now
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Re: New Metallica
I got a strong Motorhead vibe from it too.
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Re: New Metallica
First listen today while working out, I enjoyed it (played it twice). Hope the rest of the album is that good/energetic. Been a long time since listening to any Metallica.
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Re: New Metallica
I could hear a deep Diamond Head Influence in it, no bad thing in my view, especially in some of the vocal passages and the ends of the riffs
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Re: New Metallica
I'm hearing Nickelback
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Re: New Metallica
It's amazing James is nearly 60 and singing like that. He sounds really great. Still.
The drums are too loud and it sounds a bit too polished for my ears these days (same reason I can't listen to Alter Bridge) but it's fine I guess. It doesn't stay overlong, gets to the riff right away, has some hooky bits, and it's a decent rock n roll song. Not very 'metal' and not very creative but yeah, it's perfectly fine. I've definitely heard worse.
Kirk's solos make less and less sense with each passing album. I wouldn't mind if he went back to composing the solos a bit more rather than blasting wah-drenched pentatonic licks out at mach 10 for his 8 bars. He did some tasty things on Hardwired, some nice melodic lines, that it feels a bit like a missed opportunity when he just widdles in the 12-14th fret box.
The drums are too loud and it sounds a bit too polished for my ears these days (same reason I can't listen to Alter Bridge) but it's fine I guess. It doesn't stay overlong, gets to the riff right away, has some hooky bits, and it's a decent rock n roll song. Not very 'metal' and not very creative but yeah, it's perfectly fine. I've definitely heard worse.
Kirk's solos make less and less sense with each passing album. I wouldn't mind if he went back to composing the solos a bit more rather than blasting wah-drenched pentatonic licks out at mach 10 for his 8 bars. He did some tasty things on Hardwired, some nice melodic lines, that it feels a bit like a missed opportunity when he just widdles in the 12-14th fret box.
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Re: New Metallica
The sonics are really there - the overall sound is great, James' voice sounds great, drums are tight - and I dig the uptempo feel, but.... that Motorhead-wannabe riff and a bunch of overused double-stops just can't carry the song. It's not doing it for me. The song wants to be Kill 'Em All era (Hit the Lights etc) but it feels like a parody - almost like how the Team America themesong is a parody of 80's US hairmetal, but it's meant to be - this Metallica song has that vibe, but they're for real. It just feels inauthentic like when they tried to "go real heavy".
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They need a bunch of divorces, overdoses and maybe a death or 2 to get the fire back