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!'
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.
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.
Lulu was interesting
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.
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 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.
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.
Should have been playing Ride the Lightning!
Plenty room in the 'pit' !
Great timing!!
https://x.com/sunsetgirljane/status/1794139888519946337?s=46
That should work.
Boards for some reason doesn’t recognise X , I believe if you edit the link and put twitter instead of X in the link it should embed?
something on your end maybe, tis still working there
Link not working?
Holy F**k! 😄
This features James on vocals and Rob on Bass. James does it in spoken word form.
Hello!
I've 2 X Two day general admission tickets for Munich (24th and 26th May),
Currently have them for resale on ticketmaster.de, link below.
Give me a shout if interested or you can get the tickets via the link.
Can't go anymore as my friend is pregnant and don't think a mosh pit in Mu och will be a great place for her 🤣
Cheers!
https://secure.ticketmaster.de/rs/491049/l8j7xnrv
i ll pass, id rather put it towards another holiday....
A whopping 425 EUR per ticket, per night. But it is pit within the stage.
how much?
Ive two 2 day snakepit tickets for Madrid in July if anyone wants them for face value, I won't make it now and no official resale option on the Spanish ticketmaster site
jesus i just loved that guy, sad news alright
In case anyone missed it... Lars's dad, Torben Ulrich, passed away just before Christmas at the grand age of 95.
I'd write him a bit of a eulogy, but I like to think he'd say of it, '.... delete that...'.
Not only that, he will also not play ANY consecutive nights, even if in same city, and will only tour in 2 week bursts
Has to look after his voice, Jon Bon Jovi should have taken a leaf out of Hets book
They're all over or pushing 60 now, so they're not going to go crazy touring anymore
James will only do 50 dates a year he's said it over and over.
Anyone see the geddy lee show on paramount? Episode 2 he visits Rob and his house is unreal !
Other highlight is les claypools Luthier , she's a hoot
ffs some of those ticket prices are ridiculous, i understand costs have sky rocketed, but ffs.....
Ya initial post on 2 shows actually did seem for Europe come to think of it.
Saw elsewhere Austria is priced €150 GA and €223 gold circle, unless they appear at a festival I'm headed to I'm pretty content with having seen them the couple of times I did.
Confirmed alright, along with Racino Rocks in Austria. Saudi one must have been a late addition
Should be, full line up coming at 9 tomorrow morning.
