From about 3.55mins in is very telling lol. Lars telling Jason to shut it after he’d just joined..

4 days later

Really hoping they play Glasnost – they are touring Europe at the time I don’t think its out of the question

BlainSA I actually really liked it, because it sounded like something off Reload. Have not liked the two other new singles.

      Homegrove It’s got one riff I thought was ok. The solo is a waste of time.

      Have you heard the HammetT solo stuff? Cringed at some of the stuff I heard harking back to the old days with practically the same licks.

        This from a Metallica forum about sums things up for me: -

        “If these last 3 songs were by some random band popping up in my YouTube feed being promoted by Napalm Records, I’d probably listen once and forget about them”

        Agreed. Their new acoustic covers of Killing Me by UFO and Thin Lizzy - borderline are awesome though. They should do more of these. Like Metallica Unplugged.

        19 days later

        Board invasion anyone?

        24 days later

        I listened through the new album without being on my phone. It didn’t make me angry, or worse, sad, which I guess is OK considering they’re 60. Shall listen again in the evening with a glass of whiskey, and loud. Let’s see if goes from “ok” to “actually pretty good.” For the record, I liked Hardwired and Death Magnetic, have not listened to Saint Anger since 2003.

          Homegrove on a second, more focused listen I upgraded the new album from “not bad” to “I might actually want to hear some of these live instead of For Whom the Bell Tolls. Again.”