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    Posted: January 05 2017 at 02:33
Maybe the best album Metallica recorded for almost 2 decades now. They tried to sound like in their early days, but the inspiration is long gone. Good album, horrible cover.
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I still haven't heard it - doubt it will top Death Magnetic.
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My dad got it for me for Christmas.  Maybe one of these days I'll actually get around to listening to it.

Agree with whoever said the artwork is horrible.
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^I'm one of those people. St Anger is the only album of theirs I liked outside of RtL, MoP, and aJfA.

That being said, I get to hear the new one as a free Amazon Prime download. I've since deleted it. Its rehashed mumbojumbo.

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I love it, I think it's up there with the band's best. What do I know though, I'm one of the few people who doesn't think St. Anger is a bad album.
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Amazing record. I listen to Metallica since I was a teen but I don't consider myself a big fan. I used to find them extremely dull.
They totally redeemed themselves with Death Magnetic and Hardwired, by far Metallica's best albums.
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Not gonna buy it.  I'm digging the new generation of metal, bands like Seven Impale, Leprous, Haken and Native Construct. 
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Originally posted by Catcher10 Catcher10 wrote:

Originally posted by SteveG SteveG wrote:

Originally posted by Catcher10 Catcher10 wrote:

Never a fan, have listened to a lot of their music over the past 20yrs, was there at the beginning and still never clicked with me. Pretty much Metallica was my exposure to never getting into anything thrash related...
Is the black album considered thrash? I like that but not the earlier albums.
No it's considered pop-rock..........LOLClap
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The cover art is appalling! So try-hard....only some kids would think `Oh man, look at that torment, these guys are HARDCORE!!'
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Radio station I listen to driving plays a song from the album probably once every hour and a half so I've heard a few. My thoughts are always "but that's been done before."
Ghost-something-or-other had a chorus that I liked but it didn't go anywhere.
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Originally posted by SteveG SteveG wrote:

Originally posted by Catcher10 Catcher10 wrote:

Never a fan, have listened to a lot of their music over the past 20yrs, was there at the beginning and still never clicked with me. Pretty much Metallica was my exposure to never getting into anything thrash related...
Is the black album considered thrash? I like that but not the earlier albums.
No it's considered pop-rock..........LOLClap
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Originally posted by Catcher10 Catcher10 wrote:

Never a fan, have listened to a lot of their music over the past 20yrs, was there at the beginning and still never clicked with me. Pretty much Metallica was my exposure to never getting into anything thrash related...
Is the black album considered thrash? I like that but not the earlier albums.
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Never a fan, have listened to a lot of their music over the past 20yrs, was there at the beginning and still never clicked with me. Pretty much Metallica was my exposure to never getting into anything thrash related...
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I won't buy it.
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I already got this album and have heard it a few times. Still, I might just as well not have got it... I guess some songs may still grow on me, but there was no particular highlight. So far, my favourite songs are the covers of "When a Blind Man Cries" and "Remember Tomorrow" on the bonus CD. As for the Epica album I mentioned I was interested in before, it wasn't really that great either... though I guess it is at least a bit better than this one, still, the previous Epica album was much better. And indeed Opeth's album seems to be my favourite metal album this year.
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Can't see what it has got to offer really. An ok album, some good riffs, some utterly boring ones.

It is like a mix of Kill em All and Load with little in between. Kind of pointless.
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It's funny, the day it came out I went into a local JB Hifi store (an Australian music chain of stores) to buy it. I got there and wandered around the store for 20 minutes, quite unsure of why I'd even gone there in the first place. I bought a couple of movies, left, and about twenty minutes later thought `Sonofa....the new Metallica album.......meh') and kept driving. I think I kind of used the little momentum and interest I had in picking it up there and then and now already don't really care.
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Originally posted by siLLy puPPy siLLy puPPy wrote:

[QUOTE=Dellinger] Personally i'm so over Metallica and what i've heard from the new album would've sounded fine in 1995 after the black album but sounds rather dull and calculated today. I'm sure i'll hear it eventually but there is so much other interesting music out there i'd much rather engage my attention in
Same here. I have not heard a lot of the new Opeth but will seek it out.
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I personally found it rather flat, except Atlas Arise...
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Originally posted by Dellinger Dellinger wrote:

I have heard bits of it, but haven't bought it. I was at the music store today and they were playing it... and it did sound better than I expected, but nothing that would really hook me. I rather decided to buy Opeth's last album, which I am really loving. And as far as metal goes, I expect to buy Epica's new album before this one. But I do might end up buying this new Metallica album, which is something I was not so sure about before. I think I actually liked what I heard better than Death Magnetic, even though I didn't really listen to that album much, nor did I buy it. I definitley liked it more than St Anger.

Good choice. Both the new Opeth and the new Epica are EXCELLENT! Personally i'm so over Metallica and what i've heard from the new album would've sounded fine in 1995 after the black album but sounds rather dull and calculated today. I'm sure i'll hear it eventually but there is so much other interesting music out there i'd much rather engage my attention in
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