It has leaked. What's your opinion about the album?

got a DL link?

>>69020540
Judging by the singles is Death Magnetic pt. 2
Another bunch of generic thrash songs with awful production on top

8/10 better than death magnetic. Lots of highlights, 3 or so boring cuts but a nice listen after 2 times through it

>>69020540
It's okay

Where has it leaked? I'm not finding any DL links for it.

>>69023073
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Now that we're dead sounds surprisingly Load-ish

Sounds worse than my penis in your mouth

Too much fucking snare rolls, Lars is as unimaginative as in the last 20 years.
Kirk's solos are uninspired most of the time.
Het still holds up, voice sounds breddy good as well his riffs, this could've been much better with a better lead guitarist and drummer .
Trujillo does his job.

liked it a lot. heavy as fuck

sounds like it has a bit of a loudness issue though. kinda like death magnetic but not as bad

>>69023191
hmmm

6/10 sounds like butt rock

>>69020540
Terrible album cover. Like Def Leppard's Hysteria but shitty. After hearing the first couple singles I won't bother listening to it because Metallica has been a neutered shell of it's former self since the early 90's.

Currently at Dream No More.

So far the album is better than expected.

>>69024585
That song is like Devils Dance and The Thing that should not be combined, some 90's Metallica vibe

>>69024585
Halo on Fire is the best one, hands down

Can I please get a download link?

6th album in a row to debut at #1... BOOM.

>>69025693
>debut at #1

In what? The "No One Cares About the Charts Any More" Charts?

>>69025779
Yeah!

>>69023191
how do I use this? :/

>>69025842
click it

>>69025842
Did you ever use torrents?

Link doesn't work

>>69025916
only way I know is go to torrent site and open torrent or magnet link with utorrent
what do I do with the link posted here?

>>69023735
>>69022173

Couldn't agree more.
I actually like Atlas rise song, but the fucking drums sound pisses me off. And it's not even the worst on this track. There is others that I just couldn't keep on listening to it.

>>69025971
Did you copy the url and past it on your torrent software?

>>69025971
just paste it in the fucking address bar, like you're trying to open any other link

it will be like you clicked on the fucking magnet link on any tracker

fucking fuck

>>69026016
LAL

>>69025971

http://psychocydd.co.uk/download.php?id=a5f400cf736762fe8a4c17fcbd45e22fffdb2bb2&f=%5BRequest%5D.Metallica.-.Hardwired...To.Self-Destruct.%282CD%29.%282016%29.torrent

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They did it the absolute madmen, they've gone and made "Overload".
Pretty fun album, Spit out the bone was GOAT

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>>69026039
>>69026087
this works, thanks a lot

>>69025973
>the fucking drums sound pisses me off
This. The drums sound so fucking bad, whose idea was that? Jesus fucking Christ.

Drums are fine.

Halo on fire is fucking good.

i thought this came out a year ago?

>>69026525
Release day is next Friday

>>69020540
It's better than new Megadeth. It's like...actually good. Like honestly it's kinda weird how good it is

>>69026525
It did.

Not a bad album overall, I expected far worse.

>>69026581
Yep agree.

This is different Metallica... Produced quite well too.

James' singing is fucking off the charts.

Man, the final track "Spit Out The Bone" is goddamn BRUTAL

>>69026588
nup.

Now That We're Dead is so cool and cinematic. I can definitely imagine it play over some road movie opening credits. CD 1 delivers so far.

>>69020540
this sounds like something that they were going to put on 2002, if not for all that mess around St. Anger

all in all, pretty cool - it actually sounds pretty natural and forward looking, unlike DM

some fillers in the second half but maybe they'll grow on me

1st cd is perfect.
wtf did James start boozing again?!

>>69027037
>CD 1
It's a double album?

>>69020540
man that cover art is really cool

Guys... Mr Hammett is fucking ripping shit up on this

>>69027677
yeah, 12 songs

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>>69027681
right? :D it's so awesome ;)

cd1 pretty good, surprisingly three other songs are better than what they released before the album went out.

cd2 is okay, feels more like reload than load? not sure.
but spit out the bone best one on entire album easily

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Using this as an alt-cover

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>>69028173
Or this

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>>69028266
Or this

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>>69028279
Or this

Which one of the four is the best?

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Here are some fan made ones.. So much better.

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#2

God damn it Kirk when are they going to fucking fire your pathetic sloppy balding ass and hire a real pro? His attempts at doing vibrato are surreal, this guy has been playing for over 30 years and he sounds like an amateur

>>69020540
My opinion?
its too fucking long.
The songs sound nice but I don't want to listen to it for longer than 30 minutes because it just gets boring.

Mature listeners will love it, highscholl and college metalheads will hate it for not being thrashy enough. Top notch groove rock/metal, 9/10 from me. It would have been a 10 but I just think that it's missing a ballad.

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post >yfw Spit Out the Bone

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>>69028752
genuinely great song

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It's really interesting and great musically but I have a feeling Metallica fans are going to hate it

The three singles and Spit out the Bone all sound like classic Metallica stuff but the rest of it sounds more like Baroness or Mastadon, and I don't know how well that approach is going to go down with people

Then again I'm biased, I have this feeling that a lot of old school Metallica fans are kinda dumb. I remember at the bridge school charity concert they'd finished playing (I think) Hero of the Day, and a bunch of guys start booing and telling them to fuck off, chanting "no more new shit, more old school shit", and then they start playing Bleeding Me, and the guys start cheering being all like "YEAAAAH WOO THAT'S MORE LIKE IT".

>>69028851

Yeah that's typical... I guess there are some people who just don't appreciate their entire catalogue.

This album is amazing. I can even hear similarities to Megadeth.

So far, everyone on the Metclub forum are loving it.

I mean, after this release, if you still hate Metallica... Then I think you should just finally move on and don't even bother yourself with them at all.

spit out the bone is really good. there were a few other good tracks mixed in with some mediocre/forgettable ones. would be a lot better if the album was shorter and the cover wasnt so god awful. 7/10 will listen to it again.

>>69028173
most spooky
>>69028266
>>69028299
reminds me of trump
>>69028279
alright, need to listen to the album to see if it fits first

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>>69028752

>>69026281
Fuckin overload.. right on spot anon!

>>69020540
Feels like they're drawing on a lot of their old punk influences. It's neat but doesn't work well with such long songs.

>>69029569
Well, it sure does sound more "polished" than death magnetic. And i really like that album. "Dream No More" Sounds so Alice in Chains, And that´s not a bad thing.

>>69020540
Repetitive

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I'm gonna go against the grain here and say I prefer CD2 but that might just be because I listened to all the singles dozens of times and got a little bored of them

>>69029629
im with y anon

Still digesting it after a first listen through.

I will say this, I think Spit Out the Bone is incredible. One of the best songs they've ever written. It deserves to be up there with One and Enter Sandman as one of their classics.

>>69029713
incredible to hear Spit Out The Bone right? Almost made me cry

CMON METALLICA BABY

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Holy fuck .. Spit out the bone ... Heavier than everything on Justice

qweqrqwqwre

>>69030016
i hear ya. fuck, i dont even know even know what to say. Fuck Ulrichs mediocre drumming, fuck Hammetts mediocre leads, it´s metallica. And i don´t know what to say

the snare sound is like some kind of sick kafkaesque joke

I only like kill em all.
Will I like this album?

>>69030126
fuck u m8. SNARE sounds good

>>69030165
yes and no

>literally every link i could find is down

fuck u lars

>>69030165
You'll definitely like Hardwired and Spit Out the Bone, maybe not the rest.

>ELDER GOD TIER
Spit Out the Bone
>GOD TIER
Moth Into Flame, Dream No More
>Great Tier
Halo on Fire, Am I Savage?, Hardwired, Here Comes Revenge
>Good Tier
Atlas Rise!, Confusion
>Meh Tier
ManUNkind, Murder One

>>69030248
Oh shit, Now That We're Dead should be in Great Tier

>>69030259
Agree!

SPIT OUT THE BONE!!!!!!

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Fuck.. this is actually great

Why the fuck does this have 2 discs?

It's not a fucking vinyl

>>69030601
fuck u m8, i´t´s 2016 CD1 and CD2 dont mean shit

>>69030623
I don't give a fuck nigga

>>69030601
Probably just a stylistic thing

>>69030633
nigga i aint a nigga nigga, so u betta wahtacha ya self b4 u wreck ya self

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>>69030642

WE'RE SO FUCKED

SHIT OUT OF LUCK

>>69030707
HARDWIRED TO.....
SELF DESTRUCT AHHHH

>just noticed i don't have every metallica album on my pc

anyone got links to them

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anyone else see the blood shape looks like an old lady

>>69030919
no, just listen to the new album

>>69031032
I am. It's good.

This is a Metallica general now.

>>69031100
it sure is. Does it feel good to hear metallica again? it´s surreal to hear them again, at this level. Good i mean

>tfw first concert I went to was Metallica

>ywn live in a world where Dave was able to handle his booze better and was never kicked from Metallica
>where Cliff Burton didn't die in 1986
>where Metallica fired Lars after the 1986 tour like they planned
>where they got a competent drummer and much more creative lead guitarist
>where Metallica reached even higher peaks than they ever did in this timeline

fuck

>>69027945
That looks like Nickelback

>>69031203
KAK

>>69031203
Hey, lars is a shitty drummer. But as a composer? A fucking great one i would say.

>>69031275
Lars and Hetfield together composing this.. Holy shit it doesn't get much better than this..

Sonically and musically... This is as good as it gets.

>>69031275
Then Lars gets thrown out the bus window but doesnt die, just becomes a quadriplegic

He can compose and be their crippled hypeman, while they get a new/better drummer

>>69031308
i agree. Hetfield and Ulrich as composers is something else. Death Magnetic, was a great album, thou too long. Feels great that Hetfield and Ulrich is composing again. I hope that Ulrich produces some other bands albums in the future, that would be awesome actually,

>>69020540
Fucking ass kys faggot for liking such hardcore numale shill shitcon

I really like metallica but haven't listened to anything they released after the black album. Should I?

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>>69020540
how can they get away with this album art?

>>69030919

>>69031359
Yeah I have wondered the same thing.. Lars will surely get involved with other bands sooner rather than later. He is a genius.

Meanwhile.. James' phrasing/singing in Halo on fire is fucking magical.

Fuck sake, this album is so fucking GOD-LIKE.

>>69030919
I always thought it looked like a kid shooting themself

>>69031380
Give it a listen... I don't think you'll be disappointed.

>>69031390
i waited for a long time that Lars would be a producer. No doubt he would be a great one. I love Trujillo and Hammett, but in a composing sense they don´t click as much as Hetfield and ulrich. I love thou what they contribute to the the album.

>>69029569
Completely agreed.

Some of these songs it feels like they could cut 1/3 and it'd be way better

link>>?

>>69031463
just search a few different torrent sites m8

>>69031463
extratorrent m8

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>mfw suddenly [spoiler]cthulhu[/spoiler]

My heroes return with a great fucking ALBUM. I don´t even know what to say. I love u Metallica, i really do.

Makes St. Anger sound like shit

>>69026281
>Overload

Fucking spot on, m8

Was Load and ReLoad received well?

Or did Metllica sell out then too?

>>69031891
Depending who you ask, Metallica sold out with Load, Black Album, the One video, or when they used acoustic guitars in Ride.

>>69031915
Or when they recorded KEA instead of just playing bay area dive bars

>>69031977

>>69028851
But Hero of the Day and Bleeding Me are both on the same album

>>69032064
That's his point. Dumb fans.

>>69031977
>>69032027
Same as this>>69032111

not as good as death magnetic but better than st anger

>>69032236
kek

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wtf is this autotune bullshit on halo
fucking disgusting

>>69020540
>>69023191
Downloading because the middle school me would be disappointed in my future self otherwise.

>>69032284
it's actually not even remotely close to death magnetic which actually had some level of excitement if you could get past the garbage production

this peak of halo is lazy dad rock level

Spit Out The Bone makes me wanna beat the shit out of girlfriend. In a good way.

>>69032561
kewl. I completely disagree. I was so underwhelmed with DM.

This album sounds like bon jovi plays metallica..

NOTGOOD

>>69032712
>delete that post

>>69031683
it was always shit

>>69030199
Torrent nigga

So my consensus on this is that the first half is very good, some songs pushing it beyond very good (end of Halo is hype as shit.) Second half is a little slow, most of it is forgettable. Until of course you get to Spit Out the Bone, then you hit unprecedentedly high levels of Metallica badassery. Overall probably a 7.5/10

>>69033812
>my consensus
your what? that's not how a consensus works

I don't know what ya'll like about Spit out the Bone. It's thrashy for sure, but very mediocre. Nothing exciting.

>>69033900
yeah, i noticed it after i posted

The lack of memorable guitar might have something to do with Kirk losing a phone of his that had over 250 riffs on it.

http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/kirk-hammett-lost-his-phone-containing-250-musical-ideas-for-next-metallica-album/

>>69034022
rad

>>69034022
>implying those riffs weren't complete garbage to begin with

>>69034022
>it was in his couch the whole time

Jumped around between a few songs I saw people talking about in this thread on youtube.

Holy fuck, though, spit out the bone is the shit. I don't think I've ever heard Metallica play something this cool.

>>69028362
This cover is legit good tbqh.
>>69034022
>his riffs were so unmemorable he had to record them on a phone to begin with

>>69034185
Have you ever done serious songwriting? Like, for an album? You think of so much shit, you have to start recording yourself. I record myself the majority of the time I play because most often you stumble across your hooks and good riffs.

I feel like you pretty much have to do this when you are trying to write 20 songs to whittle down to 8-12

The fuck is going on in this thread? I liked Metallica all the way up to the early 2000s and I don't believe you guys.

Not gonna pirate either :p

>>69034227
Yes, I have done this. And I write shit down on my computer, and keep three backups. Not because I can't play the riffs from my head, but to track the other instruments that nobody bothers songwriting for.

>>69034233
This album has some fucking good songs.

Halo is great.

>>69034227
>>69034239
And to add to this: if I forget a part of the song, well big deal, good riddance. It probably wasn't as memorable as I thought, considering I, its own writer, fucking forgot it.

>>69034233
Don't get it twisted. This album is better than anything they've done in the past sixteen years.

>>69034249
It's hard to believe but it's harder to believe this overwhelmingly positive thread even if it's true.

>>69034233
you might wanna check this one out. best mixing they've had on a record in a while, songwriting is more nuanced and dynamic, real heavy riffs here and there. this sounds like what people have been wanting metallica to sound like for a decade now.

>>69034260
Yeah I completely get what you mean... I am shocked by the reception too.

But... it is a very good album... considering these guys have been writing for 35+ years.

>>69034257
Lulu was unironically better. For all of its numerous flaws, at least they weren't halfassedly rehashing themselves.

>>69034022
I genuinely did not know that kirk wrote any riffs for metallica ever. I thought it was just james

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>>69034288
I'm definitely a minority here, but I liked Lulu very much. It made me discover other genres of music that I wouldn't otherwise.

>>69034311
That's a bit odd to say since the genres of Lulu are spoken word, heavy metal and soft rock

>>69034321
Yeah but then I got into Lou Reed's music and then other soft rock and art rock stuff too.

>>69034288
I don't feel like they're rehashing themselves. They genuinely haven't ever played a song like Halo on Fire before, for example.

I still don't get why you all like spit out the bone so much. That fucking riff is shit.

>>69034308
if kirk wrote any riffs on the album you would probably be able to recognise it, would be closer to something like my apocalypse over the hetfield chug that dominates this album

i think they work best when theres a combo of both and on this album it's too one voiced to be really exciting

>>69034367
Ignore that shit bro.

You're spot on. Halo is a monster and definitely new ground for Metallica

>>69034367
That's hardly representative of the album, considering it's one of like 2 interesting tracks on the whole thing, and even then that's for the first half.

>>69034377
shit song bro. move on.

>>69034311
And I just love lou reed lol

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How can you say that james' singing is good. That annoying piece of shit effect he has over his voice to sound "good" is driving me nuts. Songs are actually almost good if it werent for his singing.

>>69035016
There's always something bro. All good.

>>69020540
I AM GOING TO SUE 4CHAN AND SHUT IT DOWN! YOU HEAR ME?!? 4CHAN IS DEAD

>>69035055
sik dubs brah

>>69035016
best alt cover.

>>69035016
Well at least he's better than mustaine.

>>69035213
fuck off Mustaine's distain is legendary

>>69035258
Nah his vocals suck nowadays and you know it.

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MoP > RtL = KEA > AJFR > Lulu > St. Anger > S/T > HTSD > DM > Load = ReLoad

>>69035367
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>>69020540
>Spit out the bone
Is this real?

>>69020540
Great drumming fills.

I'm worried it's gonna go the same way as Death Magnetic where the full album never gets played live and the one song that became a live staple wasn't that great.

Spit Out the Bone deserves to be on every setlist until they retire. it should be up there with Enter Sandman and Master of Puppets

>>69035790
Fucking lazy bastards, especially kirk.

This album honestly failed to connect with me besides Spit Out The Bone, and I even really like Death Magnetic.

I was like 11 when DM came out though, so it may be nostalgia.

I'm 18, not underage.

>>69026407
>>69025973
The drums sound too tight and it destroys the aspect the first albums had.

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>>69031385

Vote for yer favourite track

http://www.strawpoll.me/11641305

Is anyone else freaked out by the level of Sabbath worship? The slow riffing is pretty much everywhere, and "Dream no More" is a straight-up Ozzy effect ripoff.

I find the album boring for the most part. The riffing is recognizably Hetfield, Het's vocals sound at least as decent as they did on DM sometimes surpassing the last album, Lars is awfully basic but at least had a good sound engineer, and Hammett is still, unsurprisingly, a talentless hack who keeps gaining good, sponsored reviews for his random pentatonic runs. What suprpised me, though, is the scarce presence of the wah.

"Moth into Flame"'s chorus is going to keep giving me cringes until the end of my days. The title tracks sounds like they're trying to fit under their own label and record something that sounds exactly like "KEA" would with modern sound. The only tracks I can really recognize as the album's bright points immediately are "Confusion" and "Spit out the Bone".

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>>69028752

>>69036222
Oh yeah, those two and "Manunkind", I mean. The only piece of their doomostoner inclination on the album that actually turned out good and didn't need the Ozzy voc gimmick.

>>69036090
Probably because they hit it with 12 mics in a million dollar studio, then compress the living fuck out of it, then keep the beat tied down to a rythm analyzer. I get that drums need to be on time but who wants or needs that much hi-fi?

>>69036448
Also on the making of Death Magnetic you see that Lars literally asks the guy assembling the mix to slice some of the beats to use only the best parts and repeat them as necessary. As opposed to, you know, playing the damn thing and getting it right.

The snare in Hardwired seriously rustles me more than that of St Anger. Specially on the rolls. It sounds almost like a midi, as in it's just a single snare sample being repeated, not a live snare (which would have slight variations and stressess.) Might as well fucking replace Lars with a drum machine at this point.

>>69036222
>>69036245
quit samefagging

>>69036550
Lars has always sucked, it's just more apparent now cause he wants his drums louder than the rest

bros, this isn't that good. "good for metallica," yes. there is no reason for anyone to listen to this unless they want to hear more metallica, even if it's mediocre. if you think this is especially good or worth defending, you are dumb, dumb like people who think johnny greenwood is great. maximum pleb.

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>>69036943
>johnny greenwood is great

ok tier:
>Moth into Flame
>Spit Out the Bone
utterly forgettable tier:
>all other songs
so bad it hurts:
>hardwired

I know we won't ever get a Metallica album that can keep up with Ride anymore, but this is just tired.

>>69022173
Pretty much this. James Hetfield has been unlistenable since St. Anger. He needs to acknowledge this and fucking retire already.

Just finished the first disc.

Atlas Rise, Halo on Fire, Now that We're Dead and Moth Into Flame were all genuinely good.

Hardwired's chorus is still cringey as fuck and pretty much ruins the song.

Dream No More just... doesn't work. Ozzy-era Sabbath is one of my favorite metal bands of all time, and i grew up on Metallica, but the latter should never try to imitate the former.

Kirk, just as he was on Death Magnetic, is the star of the show here. James has some good moments and some not-so-good moments.

>>69036215
I haven't listened to it yet, is Spit Out the Bone really that good?

This entire album is the blandest release since Reload. Everything on this is greatly inspired and you can tell that Kirk had nothing to do with this album. The clean guitar tones sound weak and unfinished, and because there are so few of them, they really stick out. Now That We're Dead drags hard throughout, and the solo feels like a copy paste. The Alice in Chains vibe is nice on Dream No More, but the vocal harmonization is execute poorly, and It honestly would have sounded better to have Rob sing on one of the vocal tracks than the incestuous same of the same two voices on different notes. I see comparisons to the Ozzy sound, but I just can't hear is with Hetfield's voice, Ozzy's can sound good over itself, Hetfield's can't

The majority of vocal tracks overuse autotune, and though it's nowhere near as bad as radio garbage, its obvious that Hetfield needs more of his raw sound. The vocals tracks sound like they recorded in an echochamber with the mics across the room, and the use of the reverb got old on the first track it appeared on. I didn't want to hear this come up on multiple tracks, yet it did. Like the vocals, the harmonized guitar sections were uncharacteristic of Metallica, and sound cheesy.

Throughout the album I found myself more eager to finish, because nothing resonated. Every track either drags on too long, or was just a bad song. This sounds like something a lesser band would make, and that level of boredom is something I don't even get from an Anthrax album. This was by no means even on level with Death Magnetic, and St. Anger has great riffs, great sounds, where here it's all bland and common. All the unfinished cuts from Beyond Magnetic have more heart than this. I hope the next album in 2025 sounds like Metallica, and not like a parody of itself.

>>69038272
No it's not, I made the mistake of letting /mu/ hype it for me, and it's at least better than the worst tracks from DM.

>>69038272
Yes, one of the best song they've ever written. I'd say it's probably the best of the album closers apart from maybe Dyers Eve.

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Offical power ranking

>Spite out the bone
>Confusion
>Moth into flame
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other songs are 8/10

>>69036215
There's a pretty huge gap between Spit Out the Bone, Moth into Flame, Halo on Fire, Dream No More, Now That We're Dead, and the rest of the album.

Should they just have released one disk with those six songs on it? It would be a bit of a kick in the nuts waiting 8 years for 6 songs but stuff like Atlas Rise and ManUNkind do feel a bit like filler, and they even admitted they wrote Hardwired in like two days or something just because they wanted a faster opener.

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>mfw it's going to get absolutely trashed on Metal Archives because it doesn't sound exactly like their first four albums

What do you think guys? which is the better album dystopia or this?

>>69020540
There sure is some wankers in this thread who think they are better then these 50 year olds who are still hitting & playing hard.
Ive been a fan since 1983, these days i listen to Death Metal but this album has taken me for good ride.
Most of the naysayers in this thread have not got a clue, they think the know but they dont, not one clue

>>69022173
Well your a snobby knowitallcunt hey

>>69028718
do you keep your tampon in for longer than 30 mins ?

>>69025971
>>69025842

I wish I had that cancer story copied right now, god fucking damnit you are incapable.

>>69038517
That's not an argument. Criticism does not require the ability to make something better. What makes it so good?

lmao@listening to metallica in the current year lol

>>69038641
>What makes it so good?
I enjoyed it, it made me feel good to hear new music, these days its justine bieber and some cock featuring drake so its good to hear something i relate to not top 40 rubbish, thats what i find good

>>69038721
>current year argument

>>69038517
Did you just copy this from Facebook?

>>69034308
he wrote the enter sandman riff, the creeping death breakdown and trapped under ice

>>69035394
has anyone else noticed that mustaine looks like donald trump

>>69038748
>Did you just copy this from Facebook?
haha yeah good one mate, how the fuck did you come up with that one liner so quick ?

>>69038847
lol I thought it was just me.
He also supports trump.

>that superbright, flimsy-sounding production
Even Load sounded better than their recent records

>>69038955
well yeah, bob rock gets a lot of shit but he knew how to make a record sound polished

>>69020540
I'd say 7.5, maybe 7, maybe 8 I don't know yet
decent enough imo

>>69038986
I blame that lazy shit Rick Rubin.
>turn everything up except rhythm guitars
>messy bass frequencies? fuck it, just cut 'em
>loud loud loud

>>69038877
Was THAT copied from facebook?

>>69038986
Thing is, Bob Rock didn't write the records, he produced them, and they came out great production wise. Bob gets shit because he worked with Metallica in their mainstream era. But you can't beat Flemming Rasmussen's production in their entire catalog.

>>69038884
ditto here, also apparently he said before the election that this time there's no good major candidate. and in the vid for "Post American World" he actually resembles Trump even more

just finished disc 1 and my opinion so far is that metallica no longer has the compositional ability to make several 8 minute long songs in a row bearable to sit through

the production doesn't help

>>69038499
halfway though hardwired, but dystopia. dystopia was more interesting by this point.

>>69039216
Dystopia was better. It had a few ugly fillers and a certain shade of blandness to it, but hey, at least the riffing was worthy of a 30-year veteran on the metal scene, and the solos did not give me cancer

>>69039102
>Was THAT copied from facebook?
oh you

>>69038277
cool

>mfw the best songs in the two discs are the ones that sound a lot like Load/Reload
>mfw no face

>''''New Music''''
simply epic

The last two minutes of Halo are so good but waiting six minutes for it to happen is so painful.

>>69038587
go fuck a cactus m8

>QUEST TO FIND
>FAITH IN MAN UNKIND
what the fuck are these lyrics
even st anger had better lyrics most of the time

holy fuck the 2nd disc drags down the overall quality so much.

and yeah Spit Out The Bone is pretty dope but still.

People approach Metallica with a level of adolescent cynicism I have never seen directed at anything else in my life, musical or otherwise. Thankfully that seems to have ended with this album but we've got a few stragglers who just hate everything for no good reason.

oh my god these songs are so long
i swear to god "here comes revenge" has like 4 verses before the solo and they're all the same shit

>>69039103
Mate, this is just insurance because megadeth has many latino fans. They're popular as fuck in south america so he can't really say he supports trump without damaging the megadeth brand.

>>69034377
Honestly, half of it is by-the-numbers thrash metal but there still are some very nice ideas in it too. It's a good song.

>>69039102
Why did they fire their best producer?

finished the album. halo on fire and spit out the bone are the only songs i can remember parts from, besides the singles. i feel like i need to listen to the album again to remember it, and thats a problem. i can think back to when i first got into metallica i remembered the riffs and such so much easier and listed to albums again because i wanted to, not out of obligation. it feels like they can write good songs like the first 5 albums, but are fucking with us. either that, or they are trying to cater to EVERY metallica fan. i guess that can be seen as a decency. there are load era songs on this album that im sure are there for the handful of people that like those albums entirely and not just like 4 songs like i do.

the whole thing is boring and forgettable, spit out the bone is severely overrated

What the fuck do you niggers like so much about Spit out the Bone? That solo starts at 3:58 mediocre is mediocre at best, but it's actually borderline boring.

>>69040228
Yeah, I fucked up the wording because at first I put it differently, but the point is, even though it has its moments, the song overall is boring.

>>69039641
>adolescent cynicism
Spot on. I said earlier that this album is for the mature audience only, teenagers and manchildren need not apply. I mean, I see kids on facebook feel nostalgia for shit that came out a decade before they were born, it's just silly. People seem to ignore the fact that Metallica hasn't played pure thrash in like 25 years.

>>69022326
Fuck off, Hetfield.

>>69040314
Fuck off, Dave.

>>69040274
>hasn't played pure thash in like 25 years
what is Death Magnetic?

>>69040721
You're confusing trash metal with thrash metal

>>69040721
The same it has been since black album, groove metal. Would you call Pantera thrash?

>>69040743
>>69040853
Except it is thrash, and some of their best work they've ever made. It's nothing like groove metal, and it's their early work with 25 years of maturity behind it.

>>69040994
lol no, it's their most dishonest album. It was after St Anger and they were trying to tell their fans "hey guys we're still metal, see?" but what they played sounded forced and uninspired. I'm a diehard fan and I haven't put that shit on in like 3 years.

>>69040994
>some of their best work they've ever made
Why are you lying on the internet?

>>69020540
Now that I think of it...I could easily replicate that album cover in Pixlr. Shitty cover desu