METALLICA 72 Seasons Album Review | BangerTV

foreign [Music] clam chowder did you get the red or the white ah the red fire it is cannibal don't my name is Paul get out [Music] howdy Banger Pals Blaine Smith welcoming you to another Overkill reviews and he might be across the continent but Daniel DK is here with me today how you doing I'm really stoked it's not very often that I get to review two of my favorite bands Legacy bands within the same 12-month period and uh it's my first time doing one of these collaborative Overkill Duo reviews this is pretty cool yeah all it took was for you to move to California anticipation magnification all generations [Music] [Music] yeah we probably don't need to tell you it's Metallica 72 Seasons came out on blackened recordings what else have they released DK uh the band that's too big to have their album released on a real record label label well let's also get into the bio so of course everybody knows Metallica is an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960 comprised of John Lennon Paul McCartney No that's the Beatles just like the Beatles don't need an introduction or bio uh Metallica doesn't need one either Banger TV sorry for the late review I will throw out there I've been ready to review this record since Thursday of last week but I think that I'm probably the only person on your screen right now that went to the Thursday night Premier Global listening party for the Metallica record because I think I was probably the only person as excited as I was for that uh which leads me to my complete bias on this band they are one of my favorite bands of all time in my opinion they wrote the book on this type of music they can kind of do whatever they want they want this album to sound like load meets Kill Em All I'm not gonna fight them on it they can manipulate from the book they wrote they basically can do no wrong in my eyes except for maybe you know that one album that we don't talk about and for me they can do plenty of wrong because they wrote the book and the book continues to generate an amount of money that they could never possibly spend so despite this being the band that got me into metal I am going to get mad at them for making a record if there's no point making a record because you don't need the money so the record should be good and if the record's not really really good why aren't you just surfing [Music] foreign yes and no Blaine I'm not gonna say you're wrong but what I will say is that I do think that there's a big purpose for this record I think that uh lyrically it's very obvious that James has a lot to say here uh you know he's had a couple rough years with some uh rehab and therapy and those lyrical themes really show on this album there's a lot about coming to terms with yourself and not being able to run from who you are kind of seems like the album sort of has that Darkness but also a little bit more of a fun happy go lucky Metallica vibe to it because they're slowly coming to terms with that as they mature I think there's a big purpose for that and he still has Rift life tattooed on his knuckles and that is clearly apparent in the tunes we're hearing in terms of maturing the rhyme structure is uh more nursery rhyme than mature in terms of the content like we're gonna rhyme don't ever speak my name with remember you're too blame you you're gonna rhyme uh I with Skye you're gonna rhyme appears with fears you're gonna rhyme uh all of those in the same song Awake mistake it like it really we can kind of try and use our words a little more when we're expressing these mature adult themes no you're killing me Blaine uh yes I know it's hard to believe that those Rhymes were penned by the same lyrical Mastermind that wrote apathy they're Stepping Stones so unfeeling hidden deep animosity so deceiving but uh dude are you able to say anything nice about one of the biggest bands of all time [Music] yeah I I yes I can uh I'll I'll find something nice on this album I mean there's a weird thing that happens towards the end of the album where the last two tracks uh a bit on room of mirrors and more on too far gone they turn into a heavy metal band not heavy metal as in the culture heavy metal as in the genre and it is kind of cool and I think if you're this far into your career and there is literally no need for money or anything and you've already you know had your black eye album um you can kind of experiment and be free because you don't have a perfect record and you're never in Jeopardy of anything so let's get Metallica As a new wave of traditional heavy metal band sure because you did it here and it sounds cool like the too far gone what's that thing going on there that I'd like the harmonies you're talking about that Harmony riff yeah yeah let's let's play a clip of it and wouldn't it be cool if we just got a record of this [Music] foreign [Music] you're right that is a really cool part of the record blame and I think it's worth noting that there are a lot more uh new wave of British Heavy Metal vibey Moments on this record I feel like on the last few we heard them forcing themselves to be fast to sound like a Ride the Lightning or master puppets kind of vibe when really they do kind of want to do this more Kill Em All meets new wave of British heavy metal Vibe which is the roots of where the band comes from I thought it was a little surprising that there was so much mid-tempo rockers on this album because as I said the last few albums did have more of a fast-paced vibe to them that there's not as many naughty riffs Metallica used to be about naughtiness and like you know your fight fire with fire type turnarounds and very you know cramming it all into one section but there's a lot of Cordy riffs on this album in stacked chords and inverted chords and really chunky sounding stuff Another Thing guitar nerdy to notice is they're following their opening song formula the tritone opening song formula if you listen to the first song on Death Magnetic the first song on hardwired the first song here even the first song of Black Album Sandman and the first song on Justice blackened there's similarities there it is a Formula it is something that Metallica knows what they're doing and clearly intentionally doing to open an album and it's present [Music] so I mean you know a lot more uh technically than I do um so I will ask you a question since you're talking about the guitar to me as a Layman every solo on the record sounds exactly the same as the previous solo on the record it confirm or deny thanks for putting me on the spot here um fine I will address two massive elephants in the room uh that album cover is atrocious the color the the theme I I get it 72 Seasons but like man it looks like a geocities web page it hurts my eyes I want to wear sunglasses when I look at it and uh yeah Kirk solos it's really odd to me because Kirk is one of my favorite guitar players ever he's one of everyone's favorite guitar players he's the king of the melodic and building guitar solo and you know his solos used to feel like compositions on this album it just feels like he's going cranking it to 11 Straight Out The Gate on everyone not a lot of thought in them a lot of repetitive riffs a lot of the same Blues thing over and over again yeah it's a little weird it's like how much how much wa and pentatonic uh weedley diddly can I fit in 30 seconds which is very weird there's no build they're all the same thing over and over again it's yeah very very weird Kirk very weird Kirk performance are you pissed to Kirk are you am I am I getting you to am I getting you to bad mouth him it's not as much badmouth as like there's you know there's definitely some cool elements of it you're talking about harmonies that's very much both of them but I will say a lot of the guitar riffing that I love on this record isn't in the leads it is in more of the Rhythm stuff and I think there's a really really cool uh chorus lick and nodie lick as well as a uh you know a main riff in the song Chasing light definitely definitely a standout guitar part on this album check it out [Music] [Applause] [Music] they're so nice [Music] all right so with that clip that brings us to conclusion time oh I got you it was a I was pretending it was the end of the review but it wasn't the end of the review does that does anyone else do that kind of thing around here dude this is I knew that doing this with you was gonna be insane but this is insane uh yeah you're definitely alluding to those false outros aren't you yeah um yeah that's something I noticed and something that I think we both agreed on with this record is that uh seems like you know we listen to a lot of music we can generally figure out when a song's about to end on the big triumphant ending and Metallica builds it up and builds it up and then kind of like just coasts for another verse and a half it feels like there's a lot of false endings it and and false intros as well like four parts before the song even starts it kind of suffers from a bit of that uh Motorhead Overkill outro syndrome uh where you just don't know when the song is actually gonna end there's never really a song where James just starts singing and then we get a song there's no I mean look it's not it's from one of the worst Metallica records but we're not even getting uh that and just just starting it's an older car they're turning the key a couple times though and then we get a song I will say the though is that there's there's two songs that feature really prominent bass intros which I thought was kind of cool Robert's an insane player and got a great sensibility for tones yeah thought there's some cool intros but yeah I don't need massive extended intros and outros on every single song there's a ton of uh sabbathy Parts like some really doomy descending slower kind of kind of like vibey groovy riffs it reminds me a lot of like Sabbath and different eras even it's like a lot of a lot of homage there [Music] thank you yeah I mean before this record I was like I never thought I'd hear a Metallica doing Sabbath in my life and then I heard the record and I'm like I wish I never heard Metallica doing Sabbath in my life I'll blame it I mean yeah yeah it's been a problem for Metallica for a while now uh they're too big to have an editor in the room and they need an editor in the room this album doesn't need all your albums don't need to be an hour and 17 minutes and they don't all need seven minute songs the first song they released is a three and a half minute song because yeah you can tell that that's the first way you should show an album off because it's gonna get people excited and then there's less excitement on here because it just in these big songs I mean it just doesn't feel like there's the energy throughout the song To Carry Me Through by the end it feels like I'm it's just like I've been in an airport and I'm just exhausted I'm coming home from a flight I'm not going somewhere I'm coming home from a flight and I'm just oh my God I think that this album length is sort of par for the course for Metallica since Master of Puppets they've been a long album band and they've also been uh extended outro intro type band I will say though I wish that more on the outros of this album were more like disposable Heroes than they are Overkill I think I'm not going to give you any more opportunities to [ __ ] talk one of my favorite bands ever they're doing a [ __ ] great job let's wrap this [ __ ] up [Music] all right I'll just say it if you're expecting Metallica or any band for that matter to sound the same as they did 35 years later and this far into their recording careers you just have unrealistic expectations of music and what humans are capable of these are dudes who I feel are doing their honest and best job to put something out that worked over two years on this record it shows I think that yeah a couple Duds on the record but there's also some really [ __ ] good songs if we're 35 plus years into this career and we're still getting Lux eternas it could be so and I want to stress so much worse are there derivative Parts yeah man but as I said earlier they can do whatever they want they wrote the book so if they want to use the sad but true riff again they can and if they want to use the No Remorse riff again they can they use both on this record I don't think that I'm gonna listen to this anywhere near as much as I would listen to Ride the Lightning I think that goes without saying but I do think it's a very uh honest and honest record and boy could it be so much worse and because of that I'm giving it a solid three out of five skulls and I will be complaining because I do think there should be more risks at this point there they've been around for a long time but James James 59 Kirk's 60. these aren't old men these are guys that still should be able to put out uh vibrant exciting material I think transition more fully into something experiment give me something I I caught a glimpse of it it was there it was there at the end but it was at the end that I had sat through an hour of a record just you know mix it up put out a 45 minute record put out a heavy metal record and I would probably be jazzed as for this I maybe will check out the second last two songs again because the last song is 11 minutes and so two songs I like give it two out of five skulls that pick any skull absolutely any skull will look better than this album cover you're a dick and imma check in with you at 60 years old and if your comedy isn't still as relevant as George Carlin I'm gonna remind you of this moment right here all right all right let's do some shout outs these are other records that I think you should check out and probably some that Blaine thinks you should just listen to instead of this Metallica record if you're looking for uh some more thrash that still thrash is really hard it doesn't let up the new Overkill record scorched is awesome super riffy Blitz sounds insane I don't know how they got his voice to sound like that really check out the new Overkill uh came out uh April 14th on nuclear blast it's interesting how long is overkill bit about for you're such a dick it's unbelievable I'm not gonna sit here and take this I'm just gonna pretend you're not there another one you should definitely check out hey remember when I picked uh tanith as my album of the year on Banger TV and Sam and Blaine made fun of me and called it the Fleetwood Mac of heavy metal well guess what they're back with another record and it [ __ ] rules tanith Voyage April 21st Metal Blade records uh if you're not familiar with tanith it's Russ tippins from Satan in the band uh it's adventure metal it's super melodic uh tons of harmonies even a little proggy at times super fun record check it out as well let's throw some Canadian love uh Raider trial by chaos out on redefining Darkness April 7th local boys playing some uh super heavy uh thrash metal that Teeters that line of Death Metal at times really technical riffing great drumming killer vocals check that as well I want to throw out a single that uh just dropped to the video necrofire new tune to the wolves on season to miss that full album is coming June 2nd if you're into 90s atmospheric and melodic Euro black metal holy [ __ ] this record is going to be for you and DK took up all the time and there wasn't really any thrash that came out recently that I wanted to talk about that I haven't already talked about because I talked about lucifuge monoliths a wrath on dying victims Productions coming out April 28th which is next week I talked about the momento monthly I love it it's a black and thrash record uh and it is fast and so I'm gonna go listen to that instead of more Metallica I guess that's it this was uh fun let's do this again sometime catch you later banger

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Length: 19min 10sec (1150 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 21 2023