Yeah, Jeff slacking on making the thread huh, Jimmy?
And not to hijack too much, but Sirius/XM had played the first couple or at least
A couple of tracks from the latest and I think I am just getting too old. They did nothing for me. Maybe I should have stayed in the car and got the entirety of the album (if that is what they were doing) but it just sounded like Metallica's St. Anger (of which I hated) and I was not pushed to listen to more.
Is the album, as a whole, good?
Of course thinking about it, after hearing "My Apocalypse" from their last ... yeah, the last one prior to this ... I didn't listen to any of that album either as I am not a fan of that song at all. So heck, are both albums (yes damn it - ALBUMS
) pretty sharp/good, do I have two albums I should discover or just leave be?
I like it a lot. Are there some clunkers on it? Sure, I mean, not everyone is a huge fan of 'Struggle Within' from the Black album, and that's understandable.
However, if you weren't a fan of listening to 'My Apocalypse', well, I don't think you'll like the rest of the album. You can youtube 'All Nightmare Long' and 'Broken, Beat and Scarred' and see if you have a higher impression after that, though.
For this album, I say listen to 'Moth to the Flame' and 'Spit out the Bone' to see if you have a better feeling for it. Otherwise, you and Metallica look to be separated and going on different paths.
Me? I'm still a huge fan. My only complaint is the length of the songs, which are really filled with, in parts, of just jamming the same <music> measures again and again and again. I've mentally timed it out to see how many measures I could cut, then splice to the next change up, and it'd BE AWESOME. But, that's not their thing right now. This is not 80's Metallica at all. Alot of times, I do like to just groove to the beat they're pounding, and sometimes, I don't have the temperament to do it.