Metallica

Just finished my first listen and I can see a kernel of truth in all the comments I've read so far. The new album is very much in the same vein as Hardwired, but with a little more harmony, a little less catchiness, and a heaping dollop of Load in the sauce. I'll have to listen to it a few more times to get a fuller picture, but it certainly seems better than Reload and St. Anger to me, and probably not quite as good as Death Magnetic or Hardwired.

Also, Kirk sucks, and he's sucked ever since he officially married his wah pedal circa 1991. It sounds like he just improvises his way through each solo and keeps the first take. Embarrassing.
 
Yeah, I haven't listened to it yet either. I will at some stage, but all these comments are pretty much exactly what I expected to feel while listening to the album... to the point that I feel like I don't actually need to listen to it.

Jer said:
The new album is very much in the same vein as Hardwired
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Oh, that's bad.

Jer said:
but with a little more harmony
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That's good!

Jer said:
a little less catchiness
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That's bad.

Jer said:
and a heaping dollop of Load in the sauce.
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That's good!
 
MrKnickerbocker said:
That's exactly what he does.
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No, he actually improvises a handful of takes with the guidance of a certain L. Ulrich who prefers the wah-wah wankery and boring pentatonic runs (oh yeah and from the Death Magnetic making of, he apparently does not like it when Kirk goes up high in the fretboard which is fucking asinine) who then with the assistance of the producer pieces together solos from all the improv takes Kirk's provided them.

Kirk's live improvisations are actually better, not good by any measure, but clearly not as hopeless as the studio versions so if you forced him to think about the solos and locked Lars out of the room, I'm confident he could still produce passable solos.

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I don't like 72 Seasons very much. The singles are all alright (SS being the worst) and the last three songs are genuinely pretty good but that's about it. None of the others left me with much of an impression other than my ears hurting from that fucking hi-hat.
 
Ruflux said:
Kirk's live improvisations are actually better, not good by any measure, but clearly not as hopeless as the studio versions so if you forced him to think about the solos and locked Lars out of the room, I'm confident he could still produce passable solos.
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But he's not going to think about his solos and he doesn't to think about them. He wants to "feel them existing in the oneness of being connected with, and literally being, every single human on the planet."
 
Jer said:
Also, Kirk sucks, and he's sucked ever since he officially married his wah pedal circa 1991. It sounds like he just improvises his way through each solo and keeps the first take. Embarrassing.
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He’s sucked since 1984. There are the odd good solos here and there (“Ride the Lightning”, “One”, “The Unforgiven”) and solid, passable solos elsewhere, but most of his shit is just wanking about without even a care for the song he’s playing on top of. Kill ‘Em All is the only album where the guitar solos are straight fire on every single song. How he gets heralded as one of the greatest guitarists is beyond me.

And actually 72 Seasons had better solos than Hardwired. Still disappointing, but at least there’s some reason to them.

How @GhostofCain can like this shit and not the six solo spectacle of “The Parchment” is beyond me.
 
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