If only,it would be amazing,but i think we will never see them "able" to do this.And it's sad.Metallica was a great band long time ago.Unfortunately.

I was at the Minneapolis concert in ‘17 when they played the first ever, new song live from the unreleased upcoming album, hardwired. I was smiling ear to ear hoping the whole album was going to sound like the song did. Well, here’s to hope 😊😮🍻🍻🍻🍻 🍻

@@jakubkaras7810 - If they realized that Room of Mirrors, Spit out The Bone, and Lux Aeterna are all the songs that make people think Metallica is capable of what fans want. I think proof that they keep doing things fans don't care about is their movie they made recently, some of the songs on the new album not getting any love at concerts, but oh well.

This i fully agree with

Don't give up, make cliff proud

They can still do Blackened 😮

I saw them in 2017. Show was amazing. Only gripe was it being at a football field.

@@annstevens6223 "Well then kick a field goal and shut the fuck up!" hahaha Just joking.

They may be the best live metal band I’ve ever heard

​@@ShredmasterScottThat would be Opeth

@@jvk3144 Opeth? Noodly and wankery filled. It doesn't matter to me how proficient or accurate a band is at their instruments, I am looking for some good hooks and good groove. I tried the Opeth thing and Dream Theater and couldn't get into it.

@@ShredmasterScott And probably better than Iron Maiden, which was unconceivable for me after seeing them like 10 times in the last 20 years, playing the entire 7th son album in 2014, Redoing the Live After Death concert in 2008 or playing the best of the Blaze Bayley's era (X Factor and Virtual XI) in 2017. For me Iron Maiden was the number 1 metal band of all times. But I must say that after seeing the shows Metallica made these late years, and especially attending to the 2 shows they performed in Paris during the ongoing 72 Season tour, my brain has been wipe off by their performance. I was so impressed that now, I'm just watching all the live video they release of their songs during the tour, always hoping they'll play some songs they haven't played yet so I get to see a live performance of as much as possible of their insane discography....

@@themetalhead1463 Opeth is cool, but it has some flaws. Progressive metal is nice but listening too much of it will make you dizzy. Which isn't the case with Metallica: I can listen to their entire discography in a row, non album songs and cover songs included without being bored a single time (I even did it this summer while driving for hours in my cars while going and returning from holydays). This is rare, because listening always to the same genre of metal can get you bored (Thrash metal, Death metal, Black Metal, Doom MEtal, etc...) there are very few bands that aren't like this...

Absolutely

Have heard of Motorbreath? Ηit the Lights? Fight fire with Fire? No? Well you just wanna be called Metallica fan... you ain't one 😁

@@dimkent6659 i did,what is your point really?

Huge fanbase without taste.

@@azazelreficulmefistofelicu7158 what taste?

not really he is like the music snob, knows that this will get hits and other stuff won't

Kirk has done some amazing solos over the years.

Disposable heros solo is as good as TOS

@@hms2407 That track in general just rules.

Same here. I love and justice and think it's just as good as the first 3.

@@outerspacernI thought they weren’t great after the Black album

Yeah I agree, ...And Justice for All is the last great Metallica album. I honestly think they fell off a cliff after that album (pun not intended). Don't get me wrong, there's a lot of songs I like after Justice, but that's their last album that's good front to back.

There were some underdogs on the classic 4 first albums: Pulling Teeth (outside the astonishing live performances of Burton, it was just a bass solo on album), Escape (basic thrash metal song with nothing special about to say). All the songs of the Black Album are Imo far above these 2 songs, and there are lots of songs of the Black Album (Sad But True, Wherever I May Roam, Through the Never, The God That Failed...) I would rank above several of songs of the 4 first albums... I consider th Black Album part of their classic era with the 4 first album actually (even if I do consider there is a huge sound changing from AFJA to BA, but again, it was the same from KEA to RTL)

@@UpTheIrons12 -Kill Em All: Speed Metal at it's best -RTL: Thrash Metal's Biblical Album -MOP: Thrash at perfection -AFJA: Technical and Brutal Thrash's wonder. -Black Album: Still thrash but emphasize mor on clean production and composition than into agressivity (lots of heavy songs though) -Load: was a really good album if you are more into hard rock and Stoner/Doom stuff. -Reload: Much more grand audience songs (which were actually good), and also much more "meh" songs than in Load. -Garage Inc: 20 years of splendid covers of killer songs from bands everyone should be listening to -S&M: A bit pretentious imo, and most of th songs doesn't work (the symphonic orchestra + the metal band). The 2 exclusive songs are very good however. -Mission Impossible 2 (I Disappear): OK song. -St. Anger: A complete disaster. Most of the songs still have some potential when you listen closely, but the production ruins everything... -Death Magnetic: Metallica doing their best to come back to their roots 25 years after Kill 'em All, Not perfect but nice compositions and sharp songs, and a good reinsurance that Metallica wasn't completely lost in a dead end road after St. Anger... -Lulu: Not a Metallica album, side project, can't be judged as a Metallica album. People need to stop focusing on this album. -Beyond Magnetic: The forgotten EP (mainly because it came out at the same time of Lulu). has actually some pretty good songs with good potential -HTSD: Cool album, even if I find average the songs everyone loves on this album (Hardwired, Atlas, Moth, Spit out the Bone, Now that We're Dead) and just love all the other songs that most people dislikes... -HTSD Deluxe Edition: 1 exclusive song + 3 covers, all made between 2008 and 2014. They're so good, all of them. -Helping Hands: Acoustic version changes really the songs, in a surprising way, but not bad at all. 2 Exclusive cover that are OK, but not on the level of the originals -Blackened 2020: Another acoustic version of a great classic. Same as Helping Hand, it sound strange but so good at the same time -S&M2: Didn't listened much of it, put the composition between the metal band and the symphonic orchestra seemed to worked way better for me. Will need to check again. -72 Season: I liked it. Way better than HTSD imo, reaching to the level of DM which was the best modern era (XXIrst century) Metallica album, but I'm not so sure now. 72 Season is catchy and heavy. It has songs perfectly shaped for some live crowd singing (Too Far Gone, If Darkeness had a Son, Lux Aeterna, Chasing Light) and Songs just here for the headbanging (72 Seasons, Crown of Barbed Wires, Screaming Suicide, etc...). Gets too much hate with people that can't accept they can't write songs anymore like they did in the 80's.

The Black Album is actually pretty good, it's just that they've downgraded their aggressivity level on the songs to give it a clean look for all the casual audience they were seeking to reach. The writing and composition on this album is top notch, even if the 3 previous albums will always outstand it, it still is some really good composition. In 85 I was still a kid watching He-Man on TV, I wish I could have seen what the Thrash Bay bands (Anthrax, Exodus, Overkill, Testament, Agent Steel, Forbidden, Death Angel, Dark Angel, Possessed, Vio-lence...) looked like... But since I'm not an American either, I guess I'll have probably missed it either if I had been an adult back then...

It's not being party animals, it's being young. They didn't write stuff under the influence lol. "HEY, I'M SO FUCKING DRUNK. GOT AN IDEA FOR A SUPER AWESOME SONG." That's just a myth. Also, the Justice album is not amazing. It's very good, but, apart from Blackened and One, overall, is definitely not on par with the previous 3.

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I’m pretty sure the roof on the “big o” is permanent now.

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In that case they can be artists in in their basement without anybody else listening to them. If they want to sell records and make their fans happy then playing their old stuff will do the trick

But if what they moved on to is just a worse version of what they used to be capable of, how is that valid? The main gripes of people from the last 3 records were that they went on too long repeating the smallest variations of the main riffs of the song. There’s been a clear lack of proper structure building and arrangement from them while it’s pretty obvious they were trying to go for the same goals they achieved in the 80s. What does that leave you with? It leaves you realizing that they aren’t capable of writing those arrangements, at least not on their own. Cliff, Mustaine, and Jason each helped them harness those elements in a way that they haven’t been able to achieve without them. I LOVE Metallica, but part of truly loving something is also being able to be honest about them. It’s still better than having nothing, and I’m glad they’re still out playing and attempting to make music…but it kinda speaks to the testament of how hard it is to make something truly inspiring and awe inducing.

>> If that is done to you, try and write a song that lives for more than 6 months… --- Lol. Metallica can't do that either. Apart from the songs from "72 Seasons", the most recent song they play on their current tour is from "St. Anger", and that album came out 20 years ago. They obviously can't produce any new music that is on par with what they used to make.

​@@Tigermaster1986They've been paying Moth Into Flame, Hardwired and Day that never comes all those songs are more recent than St.Anger songs.

Did you see them in Phoenix?

@@MostlyJustAlex yeah

@@Kapricorn.Musick Same - they did an amazing job, even with him just getting over Covid.

Absolutely agree

Well, when I first listened to the album (around 1994), this song didn't marked me at first. I way more blown away by songs such as For Whom the Bell Tolls, Creeping Death or Fight Fire With Fire. I was even wandering why they didn't named this album with one of these songs. After 10 or 12 re-listening, songs like Ride the Lightning, Fade to Black, Trapped Under Ice and The Call of Ktulu started to resonate so much more in my head, and I now understand why they named the album RTL... Is it better than the songs Master of Puppets or ...And Justice For All? Hard to say, but it's definitively a song that's in the top 10 of their amazing discography.

Cliff Burton is so overrated, Dave mustaine is the key to the good stuff Metallica has put out

@@kkkkkk-dh7xdCliff Burton was a great musician, that being said, not even Bach pleases everyone. I love Megadeth and Dave's work, but the classic Metallica sound has nothing to do with Megadeth. They are actually two very distinct bands, when it comes to style and sound direction.

I disagree with your view on their older age. They could STILL channel that anger and rage that's still in them (just look at what James has gone through in recent times) and make great music again. They just have to realize that themselves, particularly James. He's still that confused, angry young rager.

He should bring back the death hog.

I had a lot more fun listening to hardwired than 72.

If Dave remained in the band. They would have broken up after the first album.

Yeah the new album isn't bad, the only problem is Kirk not giving a fuck about his solos. As a lead guitarist, I've always loved his early day solos, and it disappoints me that he put up such a bad "solo"(more of an alternate picking warm up than anything)

​@leon6110 Yeah Kirk was just plain LAZY on this album. I usually respect his solos too

I'll compare it all I want. it sucks even compared to their last album. I listened to this new one once and never again. hardwired I listened to many times since it came out

@@Jwoodill2112 This album is a grower. About half of the last album (Hardwired) were throw away songs.

Seriously, people think Metallica are some perfect superhumans incapable of age. I think the album is pretty damn good for how long they are and how long they've been around

Exactly! Especially with streaming and other ways of listening.

No dave wrote the spider chord progression

@@imagereflection4826 I stand corrected, thank you!

A grower too. Much more so than the previous two albums.

Not sure if its because of this, but they actually did one thing on the album that they cant do live when both guitars play the harmonics: James added a third rhythm guitar on the album that only played the low E note, along with the bass, just makes it a little heavier…(So live you only hear the bass playing this note) It can maybe be hard to notice this guitar on the album, but you can hear it better on the isolated tracks

The isolated guitars: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mbGPg8Spzcfekpc.htmlsi=oqKtGggoPYakKOWi

1 riff. Out of 6

It's was Tuesday morning

he is sh it

I would add Iron Maiden, Slayer, Megadeth, Manowar to the list. However I think there are bands who got better with time. I quite prefer the newer albums of Testament, Overkill, Exodus, Kreator and Sodom.

Same here.

damn. that's a great way to put it.

No-one in the thrash scene tried harder to sellout than dave mustiane and thats since the beginning

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Kerry King? Slayer was so formulaic and pretty much recreated the same albums over and over. The first four albums were great. Slayer was one of those bands that stuck to their roots and frankly, it sounded lazy.

@@themetalhead1463 Yeah, but that's not Dream Theater. Slayer made the best pits ever. That's Thrash.

@@rothbardfreedom what do you mean by "pits"?

@@teddynugent2463 moshpits