METALLICA - 72 SEASONS (2023) [FULL ALBUM]

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Right now my favorite song is sleepwalk, and other songs i liked alot is, shadows follow, chasing light, too far gone, and you must burn. Lux is good too but ive been listening to it for a while and i would rather listen to the songs i havent heard too much.
 
Took a couple of listens but I'm really digging it. I don't need an album to always click immediately anymore. I've learned that sometimes it takes time. It's not about just forcing it, it's about letting it settle in. I've had many albums take many listens to gel for me and its almost always been worth it. I keep at the ones that people generally love, to see what I might find too and might have missed out on earlier. I'm still trying to get into Operation Mindcrime after many listens, it hasn't hit the 'Hell yeah' point but I know its prob in there for me. For example Queensryche wasn't a band I was exposed to in the 80's, esp when I didn't have the access to variety of music. 'Lateralus' took a while to get into after Aenima, then it just clicked. 'Gateways to Annihilation' and 'Formulas Fatal to the Flesh' are the same, and I love MA. There could be something in these type of slow burn albums that resonates with so many that I sometimes need to put an effort into. I hated a lot of books when I was younger but I really enjoyed them when i read them again years later.

Fully echo Les Zombie's post earlier (#70) on this album for me right now. The riff's in 'Crown of Barbed Wire' and 'Inamorata' have an off-kilter vibe that I love. I still have to look away when Kirk comes in on all the songs with his weak ass effort. Its great to hear Rob so much. I think I prefer James tone on this over HWTSD and DM. It's a bit less stuffed with different amp tones competing and compressing it to hell. I like the Marshall being higher in the mix for some clarity.
 
Philhouse said:
Took a couple of listens but I'm really digging it. I don't need an album to always click immediately anymore. I've learned that sometimes it takes time. It's not about just forcing it, it's about letting it settle in. I've had many albums take many listens to gel for me and its almost always been worth it. I keep at the ones that people generally love, to see what I might find too and might have missed out on earlier. I'm still trying to get into Operation Mindcrime after many listens, it hasn't hit the 'Hell yeah' point but I know its prob in there for me. For example Queensryche wasn't a band I was exposed to in the 80's, esp when I didn't have the access to variety of music. 'Lateralus' took a while to get into after Aenima, then it just clicked. 'Gateways to Annihilation' and 'Formulas Fatal to the Flesh' are the same, and I love MA. There could be something in these type of slow burn albums that resonates with so many that I sometimes need to put an effort into. I hated a lot of books when I was younger but I really enjoyed them when i read them again years later.

Fully echo Les Zombie's post earlier (#70) on this album for me right now. The riff's in 'Crown of Barbed Wire' and 'Inamorata' have an off-kilter vibe that I love. I still have to look away when Kirk comes in on all the songs with his weak ass effort. Its great to hear Rob so much. I think I prefer James tone on this over HWTSD and DM. It's a bit less stuffed with different amp tones competing and compressing it to hell. I like the Marshall being higher in the mix for some clarity.
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I have to agree with the "it's growing on me" sentiment that a few of you have mentioned.....Shadows Follow, Too Far Gone and You Must Burn actually are strong and memorable songs. As usual James' guitar performance is crisp and precise, but his vocals are probably the biggest, pleasant surprise on this record.
 
Metallica is now the Howard stern of metal. There was a time when I could listen to both but nowadays I’m definitely not into their shit.
 
Philhouse said:
Took a couple of listens but I'm really digging it. I don't need an album to always click immediately anymore. I've learned that sometimes it takes time. It's not about just forcing it, it's about letting it settle in. I've had many albums take many listens to gel for me and its almost always been worth it. I keep at the ones that people generally love, to see what I might find too and might have missed out on earlier. I'm still trying to get into Operation Mindcrime after many listens, it hasn't hit the 'Hell yeah' point but I know its prob in there for me. For example Queensryche wasn't a band I was exposed to in the 80's, esp when I didn't have the access to variety of music. 'Lateralus' took a while to get into after Aenima, then it just clicked. 'Gateways to Annihilation' and 'Formulas Fatal to the Flesh' are the same, and I love MA. There could be something in these type of slow burn albums that resonates with so many that I sometimes need to put an effort into. I hated a lot of books when I was younger but I really enjoyed them when i read them again years later.

Fully echo Les Zombie's post earlier (#70) on this album for me right now. The riff's in 'Crown of Barbed Wire' and 'Inamorata' have an off-kilter vibe that I love. I still have to look away when Kirk comes in on all the songs with his weak ass effort. Its great to hear Rob so much. I think I prefer James tone on this over HWTSD and DM. It's a bit less stuffed with different amp tones competing and compressing it to hell. I like the Marshall being higher in the mix for some clarity.
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I did a lot of these songs
 
booooorrrriiiinnngggg. Same old shit. What a bummer. They used to be so good.
 
I've listened to a little bit of most songs in the album, and it just confirmed what I was expecting since I heard Lux for the first time. This album sounds just like repeating bits and pieces leftover from their last 4 albums. Which were already not up to early Metallica standards.
I've been a fan since 1984, and they have always changed quite a bit from album to album, and that never bothered me, until the Black Album came out. Before the Black Album, there was a single Metallica song that I thought it wasn't phenomenal. It was a good song, but not phenomenal. Every single other Metallica song was incredible. And with the Black Album, I really liked 3, maybe 4 songs. The rest was ok. Load and Re-Load had some of their very best produced tones, but the music kept at the rate of 3, maybe 4, per album. St Anger was even less, maybe 2 songs, because it really sounded like they were just copying and pasting songs parts all over the album. At that point, they stopped sounding like a band.
I know they are never going back to the RTL, MOP and AJFA days. Specially because of James vocals and band attitude. When I watch parts of the RTL, MOP and even AJFA tour, James was a scary motherfucker on stage. They looked so pissed off, angry, mad and they played their songs that way, and the songs sounded that way. And the most important thing... the songs were incredible!
But that's all gone, and it will never come back. And I aware of this for a long time, and already accepted it.
This makes me appreciate bands like Slayer even more, for following the path they've first chosen, and sticking to it.
Now for the reality, I understand why Metallica wants to do it this way... money is not a bad thing to have, and the band, which was a true innovator back in the days, is playing safer than ever before. That shows right there the difference in wealth and fame between Metallica and Slayer.
Going to listen to RTL right now, and once again, enjoy it more than ever.
 
Hey neat, I found the audio stems of Lars recording the intro to every song on this album:



I've never heard a metal drummer bang on the snare so obnoxiously as Lars has done for the last few albums. It's so bad.
 
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Tone Monster said:
Did they get high and record this with an AXE-FX?
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If you go to the "Isolated Tracks" page on on YouTube, they actually have many of the songs from the record with isolated guitars. The quality is pretty low-fi and blurry from the extraction process, but you get a general feel for just how under-gained, thin and dry the guitar sound is.



There's very little in the way of the low-mids and crisp top end that Hetfield is known for. Sure it's "clear" and does a good job of staying out of the way of the bass, cymbals and snare sounds...But It' way too tame a sound for this music. I'm surprised Hetfield signed off. He needed more Mesa, Diezel and Wizard here for sure.
 
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You guys are ridiculous. Sure, Kirk is lacklustre, but it's still better than most of the rest of the shite out there.
 
RevDrucifer said:
I mean, if you continuously look for ways to be disappointed then life has no shortage of offerings, you can forever feel complete in your disappointments. Personally, that didn’t work for me and made life pretty shitty, but if that’s how you prefer to spend your time, it’s yours to do as you please.

I grew up on both those bands with AIC being my favorite of all time and Layne being my favorite singer, DuVall kills it live and Jerry sounds better these days than he did in the 90’s, dude’s tones are fucking GLORIOUS live and their output has been pretty stellar since their return. Just like Dean, Robert and Eric still kill it live and those killer tones are still there, Dean’s used the same rig his entire career. The dude singing does an outstanding job, I just wish he didn’t move around like Weiland did as it comes off as a bit cheap. Their last album was great musically, but without a Scott or Cantrell-type in the band, the vocals didn’t do it for me as much.

I don’t know if people are just addicted to bitching or haven’t realized that chasing nostalgia always ends in disappointment, but goddamn a lot of ya’ll seem content just bitching about shit instead of finding things you can actually enjoy in life.
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Agree with these sentiments. I would rather look for a positive or take something “bad” at face value and keep it moving.

Do I like this album? It’s fine. I think the song writing is wonky and not concise. The riff salads and “everything 4 times” could definitely be trimmed down. Not every song needs an epic intro that builds up to a generic open E chug. Sometimes just fucking go for it. Many of the tunes lost me immediately.

However, the performances are tight and I’ll go against the grain here and say the guitars sound great for THIS album. The Black album is my favorite Tallica tone. James’s vocals also sound fantastic even if the lyrics are meh. But he isn’t the same Puppets era kid anymore.

I have tickets to see them in Giants Stadium this summer, full disclosure I’m WAY more pumped to see Mammoth VH and Pantera open up.

Not sure how many of you guys here write, record, and release your own material. It’s never an “easy” feat, but you just write and play what excites you. And for the boys, maybe this is where it’s at for them. Clearly the audience wants more/better, me included. If this were some random local band, would everyone be as hype on it? Probably not, but when you literally shape a genre, it’s hard not to use that measuring stick.
 
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