Metallica
Hardwired...To Self-Destruct

''Halo on fire'' ... the best song of the album, that ending is just a masterpiece! and the last one ''Spit out the bone'' is the their back to the roots song but on steroids!

Speaking seriously, it’s impossible to talk seriously about Metallica’s new album. If only because he has a very strange cover, and if only because he came out. New album. Brooms. Released. To begin with, a small remark - subjectively for me, this album is simply uninteresting after a single listening. Why? Because the thrash metal specified in the genres is no more than 25% of the entire album. If you think differently, then ok, I realized that you never listened to Ragehammer, Infinite Translation, Overkill, Dark Angel, Slayer, Shah, Essence, and at worst Venom. That is, your subjective right. So, trash is not enough here, and trash is not needed here. Businessmen from the group clearly knew what they needed to do to make the fans happy. And they did everything perfectly according to the recipe. Melody heavy on an excellent, corporate sound, extended on average up to 6 minutes per song and played in a thrash manner. A little more pure trash and self-copying for nostalgia, a little from modern heavy music, completely unnecessary disc 3, and voila! - fans of all ages are happy, charts and ratings use a hype wave, dollars fly into your pocket, a group flies on a tour. For haters and critics not bought - on the drum. And now a little subjective opinion - as I have already said, the album is simply not interesting to me personally. The song "Hardwired" - one-time, "Spit Out The Bone" - I do not argue, it's cool. And in general - according to the material there are no objective claims whatsoever. Yes, Lars and Hemmet against Bostaf and Holt aren't talking about anything, but who cares? The album is simply not designed for an audience like me, an audience of thrashers who listen to this music for the sake of fumes and energy flow. For her audience, Broom did everything 100%, and did it professionally. Technically, there are no questions to the album either (and one should not think that a world-class group in 2016 cannot technically fix it - Judas Priest could). My subjective assessment is 6 points, normal, competent work. I cannot personally evaluate this album objectively personally, and I don’t want to. Just because on the third disc, the band tried to sing "Remember Tomorrow" and there is also "Ronnie Rising Medley". If you see a nuclear mushroom somewhere, I’m flying.