Rayman Posted April 14, 2023 Share Posted April 14, 2023 I mean they’re on EVERYTHING!!! All we need now is for ******g Rick BEATO to interview them and the internet will implode. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctor J Posted April 14, 2023 Share Posted April 14, 2023 Don't worry, if Lars keeps turning up the foooookin hi-hat mic none of us will be able to hear anything soon enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waddo Soqable Posted April 14, 2023 Share Posted April 14, 2023 Didn't know they were even still a "thing"... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyTravis Posted April 14, 2023 Share Posted April 14, 2023 Yeah - social media is drowning with Metallica at the moment. The new material is rough too - don’t think they’ve done anything decent since about 1999/2000. Shame - I like everything up to Garage Ic/S&M - the odd misstep aside. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cato Posted April 14, 2023 Share Posted April 14, 2023 I was thinking the other day that Ed Sheerhan was the new Coldplay and has been for some time. The best selling artists will always be someone reasonably bland and inoffensive that appeals to the widest posiible audience Metallica have never been that. They are doing some heavy promotion right now and have picked up some new younger fans via Stranger Things, but they still peaked 30 years ago. You can argue about which album they peaked with, but most fans will name one of the first 5. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rayman Posted April 14, 2023 Author Share Posted April 14, 2023 They used to stick it to the man, now they are the man. The last good thing they made was the Black album, but unfortunately that was the very record that turned them into Coldplay. They’re not relevant anymore, but then who IS? Who will be the next Metallica? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rayman Posted April 14, 2023 Author Share Posted April 14, 2023 (edited) Don’t get me started on ******g Rick Beato. He’s more prevalent than Covid. I’d rather get Covid again. Edited April 14, 2023 by Rayman 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bolo Posted April 14, 2023 Share Posted April 14, 2023 15 minutes ago, Rayman said: They’re not relevant anymore, but then who IS? Who will be the next Metallica There are a hundred new Metallicas. There were never so many bands with that quality potential. But the time that there was one Queen, one Stones, one Madonna, one Metallica etc is long gone thanks to the www. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iconic Posted April 14, 2023 Share Posted April 14, 2023 I think Die Krupps did Metallica better than, well Metallica. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Downunderwonder Posted April 14, 2023 Share Posted April 14, 2023 2 hours ago, Rayman said: next Metallica If making it big in Norway while singing in Maori is sign....Alien Weaponry. They went on a metal festival tour of Scandinavia and found the audiences singing back to them. Te internet for the win. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leschirons Posted April 15, 2023 Share Posted April 15, 2023 10 hours ago, Rayman said: Don’t get me started on ******g Rick Beato. He’s more prevalent than Covid. I’d rather get Covid again. Damn, I was just about to start a thread on the 10 most important threads😭 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Krow Posted April 15, 2023 Share Posted April 15, 2023 Is it true that almost every track they've ever recorded is in the key of Em? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyTravis Posted April 15, 2023 Share Posted April 15, 2023 6 minutes ago, Al Krow said: Is it true that almost every track they've ever recorded is in the key of Em? No…there are lots in the same key. I know Jason Newsted passed comment about wanting more than just playing in Eb the rest of his life when he left. Metallica then did St Anger in all low tunings… referring to older style ideas as “stock” And now - they’re back doing “stock” stuff. ”Some Kind Of Monster” documentary absolutely killed that band for me. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctor J Posted April 15, 2023 Share Posted April 15, 2023 Load killed them for me, I remember having to take the inlay out to compare the lyrics to what I was hearing, so sure I was that there had been a mix up at the tape plant. I've softened to it and Reload since, it was a natural progression for them, though, unlike the forced, mediocre "back to form thrash" garbage they've been churning out since. They would probably be a better band today if they kept going that route. I love SKOM, though. It's genuinely fascinating and fair play them for releasing it. They're an intriguing band. I can't think of any band who were so very, very good turn so horrifically awful and completely lose touch with absolutely everything which made them great. Where they could write songs which grabbed your attention and kept it for as long as the song went, now they just have songs which long outstay their welcome, with stupidly long intros and pointless repetition, it feels, just to make the song long. Why they insist on filling every minute of a CD every time is also baffling. I have to check everything they release, though. They're the guys who wrote some of the best music of the 80's, I can't disassociate them from that, even though it has been relentless turd splutter for so long. Lars' ears must be fried, though. The hi-hats are at tinnitus-inducing levels on the four new songs I've heard, so much so that I really don't think I can stand to hear anything else. They will never stop fascinating, however. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Blank Posted April 15, 2023 Share Posted April 15, 2023 1 hour ago, AndyTravis said: ”Some Kind Of Monster” documentary absolutely killed that band for me. That was hilarious. Almost (but not quite) as funny as Bros: After the Screaming Stops, the Goss brothers coming across just slightly less petualant than Metallica. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackroadkill Posted April 15, 2023 Share Posted April 15, 2023 3 hours ago, AndyTravis said: "Some Kind Of Monster” documentary absolutely killed that band for me. You know you're in trouble when the only guy in the movie who doesn't come across as a complete knobhead is Dave Mustaine. 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyTravis Posted April 15, 2023 Share Posted April 15, 2023 11 minutes ago, Jackroadkill said: You know you're in trouble when the only guy in the movie who doesn't come across as a complete knobhead is Dave Mustaine. Newsted came across really well too - 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmo Valdemar Posted April 15, 2023 Share Posted April 15, 2023 I've been an ardent fan of Metallica since I was 14. Not a huge fan of Reload/Garage Inc./S&M, but I've always stuck with them. Yesterday was my birthday and normally a new Metallica album released in my birthday would be a wonderful thing but for the first time I have absolutely no drive to listen to it. I've struggled with Lars' appalling, too-loud drums for years and now hearing them programmed to death on the new stuff... I think I'm done. That and the new songs having as much wallop as a damp flannel. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rayman Posted April 16, 2023 Author Share Posted April 16, 2023 I was a fan too…. I saw them back in the day, on the black album tour with Newsted….. they were amazing….. I actually loved Load, but now, they’re polished, main stream and irrelevant. They’re like Depeche Mode, Taylor Swift ….. etc etc….. all just part of the machine. I mean, I’m old…. but I’m bored to death with what’s going on in music…. It’s all so safe and dull….. and Metallica are steering the ship. Yawn…… 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crusoe Posted April 16, 2023 Share Posted April 16, 2023 On 14/04/2023 at 21:40, Rayman said: They used to stick it to the man, now they are the man. The last good thing they made was the Black album, but unfortunately that was the very record that turned them into Coldplay. They’re not relevant anymore, but then who IS? Who will be the next Metallica? I hated the Black album, because it was the one where they turned into Coldplay. I think their ubiquitousness is because of Stranger Things. Suddenly, kids everywhere were listening to and learn8ng to play Master of Puppets. There's even a guy with a Tik Tok account, who plays MoP on all sorts of things from bicycle wheel spokes to bananas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rayman Posted April 16, 2023 Author Share Posted April 16, 2023 It’s depressing isn’t it. Now they ARE the Masters of puppets. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waddo Soqable Posted April 16, 2023 Share Posted April 16, 2023 27 minutes ago, Rayman said: It’s depressing isn’t it. Now they ARE the Masters of puppets. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctor J Posted April 16, 2023 Share Posted April 16, 2023 Metallica are, not Coldplay, they are the Simpsons. Every time you encounter something new, you just can't help but check it out, knowing it's going to be terrible, but are unable to break the mental link between the current dross and the genius early years. 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Barking Spiders Posted April 16, 2023 Share Posted April 16, 2023 Metallica can only wish they were as good as Coldplay 😊 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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