Metallica- New Album Review

Metallica's new album comes amidst a shit storm of controversy. The band is up in arms about any journalists, pre-reviewing it before the album comes out, and fans are up in arms about Metallica sucking for the last 15 years. Here's my two-cent review of the newest offering from the band that used to rock!

Metalllica - Untitled As Yet

Metallica's 9th studio album feels like a true throwback. Supposedly the missing link between ...And Justice For All and the star-making Black Album (Metallica), it feels more like a throw-away. For fans of the hard core metal gurus earlier catalog it might be a little too limp, and for fans of everything the band has released since, say 1991, it might feel a little hard edged.

Track 1 comes out strong, and just when it seems like we might be seeing a re-birth of a band...quickly loses steam and collapses into a modicum of forgettable riffs and overproduced pop-metal posturing...

Track 2 tries to take it down a notch and give the fans that "other side of the coin" sound that transposes the hard with the soft sounds that the band has proven itself capable of time and time again.

Tracks 3 through 8 all suck.

Track 9 is actually my favorite, but has a fatal flaw in the bridge, that renders it almost unlistenable.

Track 10 more syrup and not enough muscle. A poseur of what Metallica used to be.

Track 11 is yet another attempt at reclaiming their pop-metal throne, with little success.

Metallica, maybe you should spend more time recording and writing songs and less time worrying about people reviewing them.