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Metallica - 72 Seasons (out today)
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deathsaber
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Honestly, I love this album, because its sounds like you would have naturally expected if they released something shortly after Black, but never really did.
We all know with Load/Reload, they were leaving thrash/metal aside chasing grunge/alt hard rock trends, with St Anger- some kind of misguided attempt at appealing nu-metal fans/hardcore kids, Death Magnetic and Hardwired were the band trying their best to prove they can make a Master of Puppets/Justice like album again, but just not meeting that challenge- they will never get the feeling again of being 20-somethings in the 80s making pioneering thrash metal.
72 seasons kind of just pulls in all of their experience- the sound is kind of black, but with dashes of the more experimental pre-black albums, and a little bit of Load-era bluesy-ness too. They are still a heavy band, but they aren't pushing it too hard anymore. They are just making a solid-post black- Metallica album and it feels more natural than it has in decades.
We all know with Load/Reload, they were leaving thrash/metal aside chasing grunge/alt hard rock trends, with St Anger- some kind of misguided attempt at appealing nu-metal fans/hardcore kids, Death Magnetic and Hardwired were the band trying their best to prove they can make a Master of Puppets/Justice like album again, but just not meeting that challenge- they will never get the feeling again of being 20-somethings in the 80s making pioneering thrash metal.
72 seasons kind of just pulls in all of their experience- the sound is kind of black, but with dashes of the more experimental pre-black albums, and a little bit of Load-era bluesy-ness too. They are still a heavy band, but they aren't pushing it too hard anymore. They are just making a solid-post black- Metallica album and it feels more natural than it has in decades.
Teletraan1
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It is ok. Not great. Was always a bigger fan of Slayer and Megadeth than Metallica in the 80s. My favorite Metallica album is probably Kill Em All. Gotta face it those days are gone and never coming back.
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God I just figured out how to turn off spatial audio/atmos on my AirPods and that certainly helped the production sound…so annoying having the audio pan any time I turned my head
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sankt-Antonio
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This made me check out the remastered Death Magnetic album. Sounds so much better than the release verseion - not perfect but actually listenable.
Which color did you get? All those colored vinyl releases is simultaneously pretty awesome but also so damned corporate
Then again, they own their own record press factory, so I guess it's ok.
OmegaSupreme
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Got the yellow one from Walmart.Which color did you get? All those colored vinyl releases is simultaneously pretty awesome but also so damned corporate
Then again, they own their own record press factory, so I guess it's ok.
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The version that doesn’t have the loudness issues is 100% better.
And listening to 72 Seasons again walking the dog today, it’s growing on me
Duellist
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Ya it’s definitely a grower album which is good. Those albums tend to have staying power.
I got the marbked red from target but ..sadly, might double dip. Doesn't seem like these metallica Walmart colors are all that scarse, but must admit that marbled yellow stands.out versus all the red/reddish releases.
Scotty W
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Great post
OmegaSupreme
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The Fartist
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I met Kirk Hammett once at a bar somewhere in Hayes Valley, San Francisco back in 2009 or 10, he was hitting on me and bought me a drink, I was pretty drunk and accepted the drink and then moved on to the next bar. Nice guy.
I listened to most of the album but nothing really got me hyped.
Had to play Fade to Black to remind me how good they were lol
I'll give it another chance and see how it goes.
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Had to play Fade to Black to remind me how good they were lol
I'll give it another chance and see how it goes.
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Fade to Black took on a new meaning when I learned the song was about one of James' guitars that was stolen while on tour.
Oh, my God. I was wrong. Metallica was emo all along. James finally made a monkey of me.
That's funny if true lolFade to Black took on a new meaning when I learned the song was about one of James' guitars that was stolen while on tour.
Oh, my God. I was wrong. Metallica was emo all along. James finally made a monkey of me.
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