The Vinyl Thread

[Frownland]

Invisible kid
Never see what he did
Got stuck where he hid
Fallen through the grid

DEEP

[Oriphiel]

Originally Posted by elphenor

imagine anticipating a Metallica release

I look forward to them.

A little fuel
a little fire
another ****ty album for the pyre

[MicShazam]

It doesn't matter now.
They neither know how to write songs, nor play music anymore anyway.

[MicShazam]

yes?

[Frownland]

Originally Posted by elphenor

anymore

Read about the high note from the solo on Master of Puppets. So ****ing punk bro.

[MicShazam]

as punk as it gets

[MicShazam]

Originally Posted by elphenor

metal is for children

Correction: Metal is for people who like loud guitars. Everything else in the genre is a distant secondary priority.

[The Batlord]

Originally Posted by MicShazam

Because I like the vibe of I Disappear and it had tight songwriting.
St. Anger is a bloated mess and way more sonically repetitive as an album than the preceding albums. I don't hate it, but it's the first album Metallica has made that bores me too much as a whole that I want to own it. It only got worse from there. So in hindsight, an album of material that follows the lead of I Disappear seems even more appealing to me now than back then.

They would both have been equally dad metal/rock albums, but whereas the "I Disappear" album would probably have been the worst album in the hypothetical Load/Reload/Rereload trilogy, at least St. Anger is an interesting failure that doesn't sound like any other album I can think of. At least Metallica were out of touch while also reaching for something where we can look at their artistic intent that was legitimate artistic intent rather than just casting it off as the next album that sounded like the albums before it.

I can discuss St. Anger and appreciate both what went wrong and what went right (and yeah things did go right), but the album you're talking about would have flown by my head just like the next Megadeth album.

[MicShazam]

Originally Posted by Dharma & Greg

They would both have been equally dad metal/rock albums, but whereas the "I Disappear" album would probably have been the worst album in the hypothetical Load/Reload/Rereload trilogy, at least St. Anger is an interesting failure that doesn't sound like any other album I can think of. At least Metallica were out of touch while also reaching for something where we can look at their artistic intent that was legitimate artistic intent rather than just casting it off as the next album that sounded like the albums before it.

I can discuss St. Anger and appreciate both what went wrong and what went right (and yeah things did go right), but the album you're talking about would have flown by my head just like the next Megadeth album.

I'll take a successful safe bet over a failed experiment. Although I'll also usually take a successful experiment over a successful safe bet.

[The Batlord]

Nah, by far the worst thing about St. Anger was James Hetfield's vocal performance, and while him trying to do something different from his 90s work laid bare just how clueless he had become about his job he would have been just as clueless regardless of the album they made, you just might have had to look at his performance a bit harder to realize it. It would have been clear he wasn't firing on all cylinders but exactly how far he had fallen would have still been a niggling thing in your mind for a couple listens at most or something.