Comments on: Metallica – Hardwired… To Self-Destruct (Deluxe Edition)

By: F.Rini

F.Rini — Sun, 11 Dec 2016 21:33:13 +0000

Thanks cirkus-lizard. Yep, Metallica has to streamline songs more. It’s their biggest problem.

By: Cirkus-Lizard

Cirkus-Lizard — Sun, 11 Dec 2016 16:21:13 +0000

Frank…spot on review. I’ve not paid a lot of attention to Metallica since the late 80’s, but have been enjoying this quite a bit. Unfortunately the band needs someone to challenge their inability to self edit. Imagine one 45 minute CD with the 1st disc less Dream No More but add Lords of Summer and Spit Out the Bone.

Vocally James sounds great, and would disagree with emperor on the production other than the drums being too loud…although in all fairness I have spent very little time listening to more recent releases.

By: Glenn Whitehead

Glenn Whitehead — Sat, 10 Dec 2016 07:25:57 +0000

This band ran out of talent on the 4th album. The singer isn’t very good. The riffs are tired. The lead guitarist is the worst musician in a popular band ever in History and should have been fired decades ago for a real hot player. The drummer is inept and never was very good. Which leaves you with the bassist, who rules. There is simply nothing there of interest. Considering the zillions of talented bands out there and all the great stuff on Bandcamp, this is bullshit, a distraction from really good mmetal music. If you like thrash, listen to Witchery or Angelus Apatrida ffs!

By: F.Rini

F.Rini — Fri, 09 Dec 2016 21:33:21 +0000

Emperor: In terms of metal releases, worldwide, yes this was the most anticipated album for the year, record sales prove that. Still does not make it the best album of the year. You will see all of the staff’s best of’s in the coming weeks and mine will mostly contain death metal and grind. I take everything into account and when I see a bunch of 50 somethings still thrashing it out it’s an accomplishment. I really paid attention to the riffs on this one and some of what Metallica are driving home with a song like Am I savage?, really is crushing riffs. The new Anthrax is ridiculously awesome, like their last record. I do feel there is a lot of “Hate” towards Metallica and some of it has to do with people just hating ’cause the band is popular. Back in the day anytime a death metal band or thrash band broke the proverbial glass ceiling all the haters would come out of the ground saying they now suck, which is B.S. I am not implying that is you, at all, you have well thought out points! However; I see a lot of fans, whether it’s death, thrash, grind, traditional or black metal screaming..”You know I still wish it was 1983, or 1986 or 1990″…I’ve always been, yes we have our certain favorite years of metal, but stop tearing the scene apart by living in the effin past and move along with the times, brother.

To each his own and we all appreciate your comments and coming on here and adding your thoughts. It’s what metal is about. And, Erik, thanks for always reading. Editor extraordinaire, even if New Orleans D is porous, this year.

By: E. Thomas

E. Thomas — Fri, 09 Dec 2016 03:11:56 +0000

Yeah this is ‘Load’ meets Death Magnetic

By: emperor

emperor — Mon, 05 Dec 2016 20:18:14 +0000

Eh, I sure wasn’t anticipating this album, stopped caring about Metallica’s releases after Load. Hype only applies if you care, which the reviewer obviously does.

Summary of this album, it is a mix of Death Magnetic and the Loads, with some Kill ’em All sprinkled in (I noticed this in some of the beats Lars used, particularly). You can almost place each song – “Hardwired” – KEA, “Atlas,Rise” – DM, “Confusion” – Load.

One thing that still bothers me is the guitar tone is still not up to par. Compare this to Ride the Lightning, the 5.98 ep, the Black album, or even Load, they all sound much better. Some of the grainy sound from Death magnetic carried over.

Anthrax’s new one is SO much better than this it’s not even funny. Kudos on pointing that out (I didn’t get into Megadeth’s), now THAT is a must buy album.