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Metallica Have a New Album Coming... Yay?
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Laz said:
That sounds awful to my ears unless you like all of your music with a lead guitar and snare drum only (boxy sounding at that). Sounds like a dude who just axed everything from 250 Hz down and 800 Hz up off and kept the rest of the sound.
- No Bass at all.
- No Cymbals which are practically Lars' signature drum sound.
- "James' Guitar" is all Mid with no oomph/body on the Lows and no sweetened tone on the Highs/Attack. Absolutely no 'groove' to the song that the "terrible" modern production provides. Prime example is 2:35 in the song where Kurt's guitar shines on the modern production but is completely absent on this fan take.
So it's leaked. And it's very good for the most part. Obviously all the songs could be two minutes shorter but that's Metallica. I know many make fun of his vocals, but James sounds the best he has in years or maybe even decades. It's more of a heavier Load than I was expecting outside of couple of thrashier numbers like "Spit Out The Bone" but it's way better than Reload or St. Anger and maybe better than Death Magnetic or Load so it's all am asking for.
Metallica, Megadeth, and Anthrax have done good shit in 2016. Get your shit together Slayer.
Metallica, Megadeth, and Anthrax have done good shit in 2016. Get your shit together Slayer.
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Spit Out the Bone may be my favorite track from the album...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m46Z0-HXySo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m46Z0-HXySo
skullman80
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Thoughts...
1. It's pretty damn good. It's kind of like Black Album and Load had a kid. You can def see influences from Iron Maiden and other bands in some of the songs.
2. Hetfield still knows how to write really really good riffs
3. They could have trimmed some of the fat off of this double album and made one album of classic tunes.
4. Some of the songs on disc 2 could have used the Hardwired treatment and had their run time cut down a minute or two. Sometimes it just seems they wrote riffs just to riff.. .which is fine, but yeah.
5. Spit out the Bone may be the best song they have written overall since before the black album, I wish there were more songs like it on the album.
6. The rewritten and re-recorded Lords of Summer track that is on the deluxe edition is better than some of the songs they actually put on the album.
Overall I dig the album alot. It's Metallica.. and I'm almost always going to like what they do because they are my favorite band. I feel sometimes they need to edit themselves on making songs so long these days, but it's just not going to happen.
1. It's pretty damn good. It's kind of like Black Album and Load had a kid. You can def see influences from Iron Maiden and other bands in some of the songs.
2. Hetfield still knows how to write really really good riffs
3. They could have trimmed some of the fat off of this double album and made one album of classic tunes.
4. Some of the songs on disc 2 could have used the Hardwired treatment and had their run time cut down a minute or two. Sometimes it just seems they wrote riffs just to riff.. .which is fine, but yeah.
5. Spit out the Bone may be the best song they have written overall since before the black album, I wish there were more songs like it on the album.
6. The rewritten and re-recorded Lords of Summer track that is on the deluxe edition is better than some of the songs they actually put on the album.
Overall I dig the album alot. It's Metallica.. and I'm almost always going to like what they do because they are my favorite band. I feel sometimes they need to edit themselves on making songs so long these days, but it's just not going to happen.
Big Papa Paegan
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It's better than St. Anger and on par with the stronger stuff from Death Magnetic. This has the same "jam" feel that people criticized Death Magnetic for, so it's funny to see such praise for this.
It's not bad and I'm sure a live track (or a remix that doesn't hang so goddamn heavy on the high end) will do it far better justice.
It's not bad and I'm sure a live track (or a remix that doesn't hang so goddamn heavy on the high end) will do it far better justice.
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Harley's Thoughts
- Brickwalled to hell so expect to be ear fatigued but not surprised at all (sadly). Really easy to see this album as a "transition" of sorts from Black Album to Load. Halo On Fire is definitely in that Load mold of the slower, alternative rock style and is a tastes may vary track. I personally like it.
- A lot of the songs I liked initially still held up very strongly which was a great sign. You can definitely make an absolutely killer 8-10 Track "Album" out of this including throwing on some of the tracks off the Bonus CD. The track, Moth Into Flame, reminded me a lot of tracks like King Nothing off Load the more I listened to it, which would help explain why it's one of my favorites on the entire album.
- I liked most of the first disc more than the second although Spit Out the Bone is the best track, by a mile easy, on this entire thing.
- Brickwalled to hell so expect to be ear fatigued but not surprised at all (sadly). Really easy to see this album as a "transition" of sorts from Black Album to Load. Halo On Fire is definitely in that Load mold of the slower, alternative rock style and is a tastes may vary track. I personally like it.
- A lot of the songs I liked initially still held up very strongly which was a great sign. You can definitely make an absolutely killer 8-10 Track "Album" out of this including throwing on some of the tracks off the Bonus CD. The track, Moth Into Flame, reminded me a lot of tracks like King Nothing off Load the more I listened to it, which would help explain why it's one of my favorites on the entire album.
- I liked most of the first disc more than the second although Spit Out the Bone is the best track, by a mile easy, on this entire thing.
oldskool
oldskool
Yeah, echoing the sentiment that the first CD is the better one. I liked every song on that disc, while disc 2 was kind of hit or miss. Overall, a really good album.
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I'm torn between putting the best track first or closing the album with it. The 2nd Disc of the actual album largely gets culled (outside Spit Out the Bone) leaving Disc 1 along with the Lords of Summer track. IMO something like the below would've rivaled classic stuff like Master of Puppets.
Harley's Ideal 8 Track Hardwired Album
#1: Spit Out the Bone
#2: Moth Into Flame
#3: Dream No More
#4: Halo on Fire
#5: Atlas Rise!
#6: Lords of Summer
#7: Now That We're Dead
#8: Hardwired... To Self Destruct
Harley's Ideal 8 Track Hardwired Album
#1: Spit Out the Bone
#2: Moth Into Flame
#3: Dream No More
#4: Halo on Fire
#5: Atlas Rise!
#6: Lords of Summer
#7: Now That We're Dead
#8: Hardwired... To Self Destruct
A Happy Medium
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Thank you for the legwork, HQ. That's turning into a Spotify playlist that I'm calling "Streamlined...To Self Destruct".