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72 seasons has a combination of thrash and hard rock elements. The music on load fits James’ voice so well. With 72 seasons, he vocally has outdone himself. I absolutely loved it.

Why is Metallica the only band that people say it's not very Metallica when it's Metallica

How can you not like 'One?' It's a perfect metal song. It's easily a top 5 Metallica track. I would've probably kept that to myself.

36:08 you fellas must not be drummers or aware of how the instrument is played. But I can assure you the “going away” of the hi-hats when the bass drum accent occurs is not an “edit” lol. What’s happening is Lars’ right hand is traveling to the crash cymbals. The bass drum strikes have no hi-hat, it’s a crash cymbal which is a different frequency. Hope this helps. 👍

To me, this album sounds like a really heavy reload. I love it

The yellow album = classic

This album has grown on me a lot in the last couple weeks. Lux and the last 3 songs hit me immediately but the more I've taken it in, the more I appreciate this album as a whole. My ONLY complaint is the guitar tone/feel is so similar across the whole thing, it feels more like one big song than individual ones. But I'm happy.

Inamorata is definitely my favorite song from this album and one of the best songs in their catalogue since Outlaw Torn 👏🏽

There's actually a video of Kirk teaching Crown of Barbed Wire to James and Rob and they kinda work on it there and then which is pretty cool. "Metallica New Riff Tuning Room Montreal 19/07/2017"

Speaking of the guitar harmonies in “Room of Mirrors” “They don’t do that very often…” They do it more than anyone else.

At my first listen Lux AEterna caught my attention, and it *was* my most favorite at that time, but man after a few more listens, Inamorata just really grew on me and goddamn it's legitimately now my most favorite one. Just, amazing. It's an 11-minute song that doesn't feel like an 11-minute song, and I wanted more....like, I don't want it to stop haha

Just got to the end and I enjoyed it so thanks for that. None of my friends like the same music as me so it's good to see other's opinions on it, even when you don't always agree. I think Room of Mirrors is my favourite song on it right now, the lyrical content I can really related to and I just love dual guitar harmonies.

All I can say is "what a album!" Love almost all the tracks from this album.

Really enjoying the creativity from this album. Reminds me so much of Load. Love it. I feel like Metallica are allowing themselves to have fun again by allowing their varying musical inspirations to show. James' vocals have been a pleasant surprise as well with new devices with more melody and vibrato.

Fuel also starts with vocals.

Ok, as an audio nut myself, this is going to be a fascinating watch. Love this format 😊

Appreciate you guys. First time coming across your corner of the internet. Great reaction and entertaining upload overall. New sub here. All the best for the future, guys 🤘

Really interesting and honest session guys. I know most everything Metallica (not anywhere as technically savvy as you of course) and your take on most everything was spot on. Thank you. You have a great angle for things like this. Please keep it up. Much love and appreciation from Kel and I. The Kel ‘N’Rich Show PS…My favorite Metallica cover/mash up is MFate Medley, Rich

"Very raspy his voice is." Thanks Yoda lol

Their live show has most recently had 16 songs - that includes encore - and lasts at least 2:00. There are several different well-placed breaks. During the hardwired tour they did a 20-minute fun break on Now That We’re Dead, just like they used to do with Seek and Destroy in the 90’s.

i bought this album and it sounds good everyone playing tight would highly recommend adding this to your record collection love this is a masterpiece

Patrick, I just needed to pop in here to tell you that I don't understand how you don't have 3 times the number of views. Your channel and you three guys together are very special. Your Metallica Reactions, in particular, have become like watching Norm Macdonald videos on some random day where I sit and end up spending the day watching the same old videos I've seen a thousand times.

Kirk's riff on Chasing Light is so his Exodus era if you listened to some demos.

1. How can you not like 'One' 2. You spoke over the best part of the album at the end of room of mirrors. 3. They do that kind of thing literally all the time

Really enjoyed this show. 72 comes over somewhat as a Re-Wired To Self Destruct LOL but some exceptional stuff here and now lots more to unpack thankyou! The very definition of a 'grower' and shout out to the Diamond Head-esk Too Far Gone love it! \m/

I guess I got the end of saturday/beginning of sunday covered! Thanks guys!

I watched the whole thing. Thank You guys. 🎉

Appreciated the conversation about talking before the review and if that was needed or frustrating to viewers. Was thinking ok...get to the review. Then started getting sucked into the conversation. Enjoyed getting educated about frequency levels.

Too Far Gone?, Room of Mirrors and Inmorata have great harmonies that I really enjoy that let me keep wanting to revisit those songs. I really wish this album had more harmonies like that. If I was the producer I’d have pushed this album in the direction. Like come on lads, this is the great shite that like a great rug really ties the room together. I feel like they Metallica misinterpreted why people didn’t like LuLu. I’m upset we don’t get some of the style guitars, ballad sound from the song Jr Dad. I want to like Jr. Dad but then Lou who just sounds tone deaf talking over Metallica I want to hear. I also wish there was a Instrumental on the album. I love hearing classical metallica guitars then mixing with heavy metal guitars. Love to see them go back to those elements again. You Must Burn! Has a nice slow groove. Lux is a nice fun fast song. But overall the first listen through, I have to just accept that Metallica moves in their own direction. Right now I want the direction Tool moved into. Trippy metal. When you listen to Orion from 1986 before Tool existed. Tool as a band especially with FI have gone great metal that in an alternate reality Metallica did more in that space. More music like Orion. Taking us on a visual journey. My hopes. As an adult, Tool hasn’t let me down with their new albums. Metallica new albums I find a couple of songs I can love. Examples…. I love The Day That Never Comes & Spit Out The Bone. To me those two songs are as good as any song off the early albums. I truly love them on that level. I don’t know if I can say that with any song on here yet. But I do love those harmonies on the last 3 songs of 72 seasons.

I used to sing the 1,2,3,4,5 song all the time. So incredibly catchy and well arranged!

you're spot on with sleepwalk my life away chorus sounding like 90's grunge - but its so good!

This album is a "grower". The more I listen to it, the more I like it! Top 3 songs for me would be Inamorata, Room of Mirrors and Lux Æterna. I think this album will go down as the best modern Metallica album post St. Anger.

2:06:49 Blue Chris knows how to recognize a badass riff

1:38:03 The 3 descending notes sound so much like the tone from Sad But True. This is my favorite from the album.

I would group Inamorata in with the “Load” era style of closing songs with Outlaw Torn and Fixxxer. It’s like a part 3 of those 2.

The other guy at the end of Inamorata was James talking to Greg Fidelman, i believe he started producing for them on Death Magnetic, so if you react to that album and Hardwired, its all him. I also believe, looking at Black album behind the scenes footage of them making the album, they have a sound engineer they have used since then as well. Dont know his name.

There are soooooo many references to other songs sprinkled throughout this album. It’s really fun every time I catch a new one. The cameo of the guitar and drum part from Cure in Barbed Wire made me grin.

I love the lad in the blue top. It’s like he’s out of his head on coke. This album is amazing, by the way. The Yellow Album rules.

This was awesome. Im only an amateur dabbler with audio stuff but its pretty cool to hear people talk about production.

There's actually 3 cover albums. The very first garage days was on the creeping death ep and the did "am I evil" and "blitzkrieg". The second was garage days re-revisited and that had 5 songs on it and it introduced Jason into the band. It had the same 5 songs on each side. I have an original copy of the cassette and the original creeping death ep on cassette. Then in 98 they released "garage Inc" which is where they did new covers and they put all the rest of their covers on the second disc.

Ahh man this album just gets better with each listen for me, front to back.. I love it!! (least favourite track is Sleepwalk My Life Away) I definitely didn't and still do not feel the same way about Hardwired. P.S. You guys are wrong (lol) Crown Of Barbed Wire is a great track so is Chasing Light !

Awesome videos! Congrats for all of you. Your opinion is very important, and objetive. Im so sorry for my bad english, im from Argentina! I see all your videos, and wait the Hardwired self-destruct album Video. I love hear you, and analized song by song. Grettings from Bariloche, Argentina! pd: maybe you talk so much in the middle of song, but is a little problem of my brain haha :) and man left is simillary Marco Hietala from Nigtwish..little little jaja

I haven’t even listened to myself yet. I think I’ll listen with you guys. I heard a few. I kind of know what expect.

So, first of all very nice video! Got kinda addicted and already saw your AJFA and Black Album videos. Love this concept. Second of all, please, pretty please, when you will encounter Death Magnetic, listen to (at least) the iTunes (not so) remastered verison. It does not have the clipping that the original does and you can finally hear the instruments correctly. It is still a bit compressed, but man, its an improvement. So, again I beg you. Listen to that verison instead! Looking forward to it!

When he sings "wire" it sounds like a wire. Love it

They've technically made a "Making of" documentary since the black album. There was "A Year and a Half in the Life of Metallica" for the Black Album. There were various "Fan Can" videos for Load and Reload. Then of course there's Some kind of monster for St. Anger. Finally, Death Magnetic and Hardwired both had videos released of them making every song that you can watch on KZfaq.

Yeah boys, you got to react to their death magnetic album. I want to see your opinion about the loudness war on this album that destroyed it. But the songs are still great!

I feel like you're always going to hear things that sound like parts of other songs. That is to be expected from a band that has been around for so long and had basically the same songwriters the whole time. But, don't let it take away from the current song or album itself.

This is my first time here and I absolutely loved listening to you guys break down this album from a professional point of view. 👍 I was definitely feeling bored on the first listen but now it's on non-stop.

Room of Mirrors is top tier. Shout out to Chris for wearing a yellow shirt. Takes alot of confidence to wear pure yellow.

360p it is, I don't have the patience to wait for the HD to process

I think they are just having fun and enjoying making music after all these years for us as fans.🤘🔥🤘🔥

The yellow man talks like he knows everything.

this is going to be a classic album watch

Hell yeah. Love the album

I often wonder why they turned the crunch down. They used to be known as the Captains of Krunch. That being said, I have yet to skip a song on this album. I love it.

Hey just wanted to say great video by you guys it was interesting to watch and hear your guys thoughts on the album as a whole! I was curious if we were allowed to suggestion bands or music? If not ignore my comment :p. But if we are i'd love to hear your thoughts and reaction at a band like Mastodon or Tool (i remember hearing you say you've never listened to tool in a video before this.) But anyways good video and enjoy the rest of your day :p

I love songs that are 5 to 8 minutes but songs that are 3 to 4 minutes are some that hit hard though. For me this album is something else. Kill Em All, Ride The Lightning, Master of Puppets, And Justice For All and The Black Album can't be touched by any band even them, but these last 2 albums are awesome.

I laughed so hard when you said Godsmack and the look on your friends face.

After listening this album 10 times or so, stating that my first impresion was meh+, now I really love the album overall. I think it's the metallica fan in me that always wants more, but always forget that they are in 2023 just like me, and time flies, and I dont know where I am in time, I forget very often that they aren't the guys who I felt in love in justice, but they are still a great band, and they are still honest, and that is a key to analysing music. If the musicians are honest, their music has to evolve just like them, evolve not in the way you want, just the way it is. You're no longer in your 20's, so you your music should sound like in your 20's, wouldn't that be trying to imitate your own young self?

If/when you listen to Load and Reload a lot more of this album will make sense, quite often when you say something is "Black album" it's more like Load/Reload

I just realized listening for the second time the album entirely with you guys, that the solo in " Crown of barbed wired" is the EXACT same solo in "Slither" of Reload

⚡ Title Track, Screaming Suicide and Lux are probably my favorites of this album I'm kinda on the fence about the other songs. Sorry for changing my comment my bad😂

Gosh. I’m loving this but I gotta say I’m watching it on 1.25x and it’s incredibly fun and hilarious that way too 😂

Glad to hear pros share my love for Inamorata.

Ngl i feel like you guys are the only other people that noticed the Batman riff in Shadows Follow, everyone else i watch never noticed and it drove me crazy lol

Without going through all the comments does anyone hear a similarity between Inamorata and My Friend of Misery musically in the harmonies and lead parts?

1:21:52 - maybe you're thinking of one of these songs? Alice in Chains - Rooster Audioslave - Like a Stone

2:34:53 - 2:34:54 I think this was two different guitar takes spliced together or looped. There's a weird "hitch" at this moment. It's something I didn't notice the first 30 times I heard this song. Thoughts?

For me, Screaming Suicide is like a mix of Through the Never & Creeping Death. And I LOVE it

When Chris… the one next to you. Asked the other Chris after chasing light if there was any other Metallica song that started like that with the vocals. Fuel. That is the only other Metallica song I know of with just vocals in the intro

you guys should listen to some of StateofMercuries reworks of Metallica songs yes it may not be a "audio engineers react" sorta thing but it would be interesting to see if you guys prefer his reworked version over the original or whatever

Also boy oh boy does the fellow on the right look like Jason Newsted!

All of these guys are near 60 years old, well Kirk is already there, and they are still playing this good. INSANE

2:23:00 Those single note riffs in the higher frets of the thick strings are quite St. Anger style, there's a few on Death Magnetic too.

Why did dude say “why?” during the Too Far Gone? harmonies?

@7 min mark the Garage Days.The $5.98 E.P. album is all older covers the newer Garage Inc. is more covers with the older Garage Days included. The older songs are killer stuff and should listen to them.

Garage inc. is new covers and a reissue of the original garage days revisited and all of the covers that they would put on their singles. Garage Days Revisited ep might be one of my top Metallica albums. James sounds really fucking good and the recording is one of my favorites from the early days. Also one of the rare times where it sounds like they were having fun in the studio.

I saw them in 1989 for the justice tour 🤘🏻

Agree with Webcam Chris - first thought I had on Room of Mirrors was that the vocals were very “Garage Inc’ey”

The major development the band made for this album is that they turned the bass up slightly in the mix.

the "mercyful fate" song on garage, inc is a medley of songs by mercyful fate, and it's a prime example of metallica's covers NOT being better than the originals, though i do really like it.

Definitely put this album after Load era, blues riffs and James lyrics and vocal sound. My favorite is probably lux and to far gone 🤘🤘

The Batman reference on shadows follow fits the colorsceme of the album as well. Wished they included the Blackened-acoustic-song as bonus track

2:11:52 Fuel starts with vocals, the only other to do it i think if you dont count Anesteshia and some other "non-singing"

You guys made me like this album and St anger more.

First seconds of Room Of Mirrors I was jaw dropped... Thought it was Stormbringer from Deep Purple!! XD

Love each song on this album. Don’t think that’s ever happened for me. I love Metallica, but I have my favorites from each album. 72 seasons though just is a masterpiece of an album. First vinyl I bought new. Got the 72 seasons blackened whiskey as well. Great reaction to the album as well. Do you have a favorite song from it?

So many interesting ideas in this album. Love the vocal experimentations, especially. But as always with modern Metallica, everything needs to be %30 shorter. They desperately need a real producer that can say no to them, but that's not gonna happen since they seem to value the comfort and control that comes with an in-house yes-man engineer like Fidelman more. All in all a very enjoyable but "just OK" album. Inamorata is an instant classic though. Best song since The Outlaw Torn.

i saw metallica in atlanta ga. in 1995 on the floor right next to the barricade 35 bucks.

Whats up with Rudolph red nosed? Great content by the way!

If Darkness had a son intro first melody totally gives me AJFA vibes

Metallica have been doing vocal harmonies like thusand Load days😂 I'd also love to know whether your opinion has changed on these aspects since falling in love with the Load album...

I agree with C Parker about Metallica being afraid to make short songs. On Death Magnetic, the song The End of the Line would be one of my favorites if it was 4 minutes. But that shit goes on for 7 minutes for no reason.

There is something to do with the faces on hardwired if you watch the video for now that we’re dead it’ll be on how the cover was made

Well with the S&M you can use a DVD for the show. Would look for n BluRay copy now. But the show is amazing.

I'm guessing someone else posted this already, but the "awkward" Crown of Barbed Wire riff is a Kirk riff rather than James who writes most of their riffs). Actually, I believe Metallica posted the sound check video where Kirk came up with the riff a few years ago and James started playing along with him. Kirk also wrote the main riff for 72 Seasons, in case you care Also, Rob does backing vocals in a few spots for once, including the LEAN ON ME in the chorus of Chasing Light

The last song takes a lot of inspiration from different Black Sabbath songs

Someone please draw a zig zagging black line on Charlie Brown's shirt! Loved it!