Shogun was a great album, but for mine, this is their best. It's an absolute metal masterpiece. The riffs, the drums, vocals... It's unbelievable. Production sounds fantastic. Drums are mixed so well. Can't believe Heafy gets this sound out of an epiphone!!
The more I listen to it the more I think you're right. Shogun is a big thing to live up to but this album is quite amazing.
Yea man. I think it's gonna be huge for them. I can't stop listening to it. After in waves, I wasn't even really excited for this. How stupid I was lol
I'm the opposite. I think in waves was them trying to find their new sound and this was them finding it. In Waves was so average in my opinion
So what are the strongest songs you reckon?
1 to 13 lol. They're all fukn great man. Seriously though, it has a bit of a black album vibe to it. Just like Black album, the first 5 songs are fukn great, but a bit more commercial. Track 6 is when the album really kicks off for mine. Fukn epic from there on.
Ill keep listening but i'm not optimistic. You know your music right?. The chorus to "Brave This Storm" (C#m-EM-G#m-F#m) is almost literally exactly the same as "In Waves" (C#m-EM-AM-G#dom), the only difference being a slight variation in the last 2 chords. It feels so rehashed to me, but good on em they will gain a lot of new fans and from what I've read will loose a few too.
Yea their are similarities there for sure. I dint know about rehashed. I think they've taken in waves and built on it for sure. I wish you could see it the way I do man. I don't tend to get this excited over new music these days but this album fukn does it for me hey
Most songs. Best would be Brave this Storm and Strife.. maybe
Big fan of early Metallica but man they have seriously turned into douche bags. I pretty much won't listen to anything after black album. I read something yday that supposedly they have so many riffs left over from there new album that they want to auction them off for bands to use. Get the **** over yourselves. Maybe 20 years ago ppl would pay for them.. But now, really?? After St anger and that other dogs balls album? I doubt it
I actually really liked Death Magnetic but St Anger was a piece of crap. They are a bunch of sellouts, just look at their store, it sells Metallica everything, but I never care about the band, only the music. Metallica are my favourite band but I don't want to meet them. I just don't care enough.
Good attitude to have these days. Way too many ****wits n music.
For some reason I haven't been able to stop listening to Ride the Lightning lately. Just keep forgetting how brilliant that album is.
Yea ride the lighting is fukn nuts. All those early records were huge for me when I started playing guitar.