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Metallica Superthread -All Metallica discussion goes in here

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,037 ✭✭✭✭greenspurs


    Should have been playing Ride the Lightning!

    Plenty room in the 'pit' !

    "Bright lights and Thunder .................... " #NoPopcorn



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,667 ✭✭✭✭briany


    I have to say that after a long time avoiding really sitting down with it, St. Anger has now come heavily into my music listening rotation in the last 5 or 6 weeks.

    My revised assessment is that the album is probably the last truly interesting thing Metallica did in their careers to date.

    Death Magnetic, Hardwired and 72 Seasons could well be argued to be more technically-accomplished albums, but they're really not doing anything the band hadn't done before and done better in the years 1983-1991. There's absolutely nothing about them which pushes the envelope or defies expectations.

    St. Anger is tough, inelegant and uncompromising. Not their greatest album, but absolutely a work worthy of respect.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,465 ✭✭✭Wrongway1985


    St. Anger is simply junk it has a number of decent tracks that would have been great if you shaved 2 or 3 minutes off them.

    I can only put it down to Metallica just being a juggernaut that people put up with wanting to bat that there's more to these average releases than meets the ear.

    I can agree with the suggestion it's the last interesting release, sure everything else really is trying to hark back to the glory years with mixed results.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,112 ✭✭✭✭klose


    72 seasons is egregiously guilty of tracks being too long also imo.


    Id personally love to see them re-record St Anger, keep the tunings the same but build it from the ground up again, the few songs they’ve been playing live from St Anger since the worldwired tour sound absolutely brilliant live IMO.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,422 ✭✭✭✭The Nal




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,667 ✭✭✭✭briany


    Yes, I've been revisiting that one a little bit, as well. It is also interesting, but the reason I didn't include it under that label was that it's a collaboration and the main thing that makes it interesting is Reed's faltering sprechgesang laid on top of the churning riffs rather than ideas Metallica had for it.

    @Wrongway1985

    I can only put it down to Metallica just being a juggernaut that people put up with wanting to bat that there's more to these average releases than meets the ear.

    Sounds a bit condescending. I could imagine someone making the same argument about the Black Album as they then proceed to lavish praise upon some obscure death metal album with incomprehensible vocals and zero song-writing or melody.

    Metallica's status in the realm of heavy music in no way saved the record from being heavily slated upon release and for many years after. I could understand if there was someone out there in 2003 who was really into Metallica's prior stuff and really wanted to like the new record and was saying how good it was through gritted teeth, but this is 2024 and we're surely a bit divorced from that.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,550 ✭✭✭✭rob316


    Since Load, I can probably count on 1 hands the songs they have released that I would listen back to. 72 Seasons was painful, I liked some of DM and Hardwired. St Anger is a dreadful album, Invisible Kid pick of the bunch.



  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 12,229 Mod ✭✭✭✭Say Your Number


    I remember Dom Lawson's incredulous video review of Lulu, on Reed's vocals 'I know he's talking, but he's even talking out of tune!'



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,702 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 559 ✭✭✭Dr Robert


    Metallica peaked with Puppets imo

    Ride the Lighting was also fantastic as was Kill Em All.

    Justice while brilliant wasn't at the same level as the previous three.

    The black album I hated at the time but it has grown on me over the years.

    Any albums after that were seriously hit and miss. The odd really good song amongst a lot of ordinary.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13 deeeznuuuts


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    Cheers



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 564 ✭✭✭fran38


    I'll ask my brother. Avid fan. What do you mean by "that" band? Is that sterling or euro?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,849 ✭✭✭mightyreds


    I would imagine lost prophets and the whole Ian Watkins thing



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13 deeeznuuuts


    Sterling. I've sold a couple of these in the last few years, next day postage to Ireland is £16 if he's interested. Thanks



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,964 ✭✭✭✭scudzilla


    Sad

    Did ya know that James and Lars flew into Dublin to meet her and recorded her vocals at Windmill Lane



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,422 ✭✭✭✭The Nal




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