Metallica - 72 Seasons (New Album April 2023)

Like Hardwired, I'll listen to the new album twice and conclude it's ok.

I thought the New Yorker piece was pretty disappointing, tbh. She's a great writer, one of my favorites, but I was not convinced by the angle. Though I suppose a problem could be that in 2022, what the fuck are you even supposed to write about Metallica?

Like Hardwired, I'll listen to the new album twice and conclude it's ok.

St Anger was the first album I bought at midnight and put for sale on eBay at 2 am

They've pushed and pulled the fundamentals of the music around in various ways over the years, but I wonder quite what is there left to say when you more or less wrote the book with your first few records, been the biggest rock band, toured the world loads of times.

A collab record with Peter Brötzmann, Colin Stetson, or Yamantaka Eye would probably kick ass, but the fanbase would get all huffy and confused.

Lux Aeterna kinda rips? I loove how fast it is and i love Kirk’s solo. Soundwise to me it’s still in the same world as the last album, like they left it off bc too fast, but i guess i hear a little nwobhm in there too

idg what the title means or why theyre singing about it but i don’t think that it matters

the album cover looks pretty uh dumb to me but you can’t win them all

Bunch of assholes.

Xpost it's about the thread on I Love AFL

lol

mr veg and i were idly speculating on the album title & i was like well 72 divided by 4 is 18 maybe it’s like 18 albums and he was all maybe they mean concert seasons outdoor & stadium (cue me laughing and eyerolling)

then this from hetfield soooo i guess the meaning is “i’ve been doing a LOT of therapy”

72 seasons. The first 18 years of our lives that form our true or false selves. The concept that we were told ‘who we are’ by our parents. A possible pigeonholing around what kind of personality we are. I think the most interesting part of this is the continued study of those core beliefs and how it affects our perception of the world today. Much of our adult experience is reenactment or reaction to these childhood experiences. Prisoners of childhood or breaking free of those bondages we carry.
— James Hetfield (2022)

Prisoners probing possible personality pigeonholing.

can't kill 'em all.

:(

I don't like the new lyrics to "Dyer's Eve"

New song - "Screaming Suicide". Sounds like something they'd have written around the time of Death Magnetic; it has that same thrash-boogie feel. But the sound is crisper than Death Magnetic's was. Also, Hetfield has lost a bunch of weight and looks creepy now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDyDpdFZHBo

I'm definitely feeling this a lot less than Lux Aeturna

It's unmemorable in the most literal sense — I've already forgotten how it goes. But at least it's fast, and I'll wind up listening to the album a thousand times just like I've done with Death Magnetic and Hardwired..., so it'll sink in eventually.

This sounds like so much generic stuff that would just fill space during "Headbanger's Ball" in the '90s.

Also, Hetfield has lost a bunch of weight and looks creepy now.

How can you tell through all the Vaseline smeared on the camera lens?

Director: "Ok, now make one of those crazy Metallica grimaces, you know the ones, the ones you always do? The ones that look like you are both constipated and also very angry? Do one of those!"

I'm too afraid I'll be disappointed to press play.

I'm pretty gutted that the year I might finally see Metallica live is one in which they'll be releasing a new album.

This sounds like so much generic stuff that would just fill space during "Headbanger's Ball" in the '90s.

to me this is like a 5-star review

Butt metal.

i preferred the first single

i don’t dislike it & its fine for standard metallica - they’ve been doing versions of this song since Load. they all sound like “intense workout metal for Leg Day” to me lol

"I had an AI write a 21st century metallica song" vibes

I hate it when their riffs get bluesy.

More like greysy.

lol yeah their bluesy influence usually never comes off well. that one very stonery riff before the verse isn't bad per se but it just doesn't really fit their sound.

be like Slayer throwing in a ZZ Top riff

'Hardwired' had the right amount of evil-sounding half steps to stir up the right Metallica memories

Also in retrospect it's kind of incredible that they went so far as to have a Megadeth-style ellipse title but didn't add the exclamation point

shoulda used a question mark to keep it separate enough

"Killing is My Business...How are Margins Looking?"

Not about the new album but I finally listened to these Death Magnetic demos. Neat listen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z5lPY6bTqU

Third single: "If Darkness Had a Son." Big 'n' heavy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_t53a5Ons0

lmao "if darkness had a son"

sorry just had to get that out of my system

lol. The cymbals are all EQ'ed to sound like splash cymbals, it's very silly.

if darkness got conned over a aol beef

*sonned (f-in autocorrect).

if darkness had a son
would fellow men take him to their hearts

not sure about the hook but the riffs in this one are good and the half-time breakdowns are kinda nasty go off lars

been in a meeting but dying to hear this so I can have an opinion on it and tell everybody what it is

You've come to the right place!

this is "Eye of the Beholder 2" so far

it's decent, maybe a B-. I like the main riff. I even like the verses. chorus isn't bad, but song doesn't justify the length at all. it just goes nowhere.

first three singles off of Hardwired > first three off of 72 Seasons. though I think I like this one and Lux Aeterna, so that's a step.

'Pandamonium' era Killing Joke vibes

Looks like a Tool video

once again the half-time sections of "if darkness had a son" are so sick

Wow, a good one, this would have fit into the handful of really good cuts on the previous album.

I thought he said "choking on steak fries", but apparently it's "stage fright".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OeC9CGtWcM

Pinball Wizard thrash

As with the last album the guitar and drum sounds are really reminding me of Psalm 69-era Ministry, and I'm not complaining. Very much looking forward to this album.