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Name .:. Metallica - 72 Seasons
Genre : Metal
Source : CDDA
Type .:. Album
Artist : Metallica
Label : EMI (Universal Music)
Titel : 72 Seasons
Tracks : 12
Playtime : 77:13
Size : 623,15MB
Encoder : FLAC 1.3.1
Quality : 1128 kbps
[ Tracklist ]
01.72 Seasons 07:40
02.Shadows Follow 06:12
03.Screaming Suicide 05:30
04.Sleepwalk My Life Away 06:56
05.You Must Burn! 07:03
06.Lux aeterna 03:22
07.Crown of Barbed Wire 05:49
08.Chasing Light 06:45
09.If Darkness Had a Son 06:36
10.Too Far Gone? 04:34
11.Room of Mirrors 05:34
12.Inamorata 11:12
Total 77:13 Min
The first 72 seasons – 18 years, converted to real
money – of a person’s life is the period during
which one goes through the formative experiences
that help define who they are. It was at this point
in their own timelines that Lars Ulrich and James
Hetfield came together to form Metallica in 1981.
How far we are from there now. Forty-two years have
passed since then, and an even four decades since
they emerged to the world at large with Kill ’Em
All. It’s even been longer than 72 seasons since Rob
‘new-new kid’ Trujillo joined the ranks.
And if we’re counting in seasons, Metallica are over
160 old, and into a golden autumn. The men
themselves are beginning to pass their individual
60th years. As such a thing raises its own questions
about what you can expect from Metallica so far into
the game (a game they long ago won anyway), perhaps
the most rewarding thing listening to their 11th
studio album is the rough balance between the honed
muscle and worldly wisdom of what’s now effectively
a lifetime as the world’s biggest metal band – 32
years, if we count from The Black Album – and the
high-on-testosterone-and-NWOBHM energy of the kids
who made Kill ’Em All.
The first peep, Lux aeterna, may have implied this
was a more openly retro-looking work than it
actually is, with its openly Diamond Head-snogging
riff and Papa Het’s ‘Lightning the nation’ lyrical
nod, as well as harking back to Whiplash’s ‘Full
speed or nothing’. Fun as that all is, it’s
refreshing that this isn’t the whole story here.
As with Hardwired… To Self-Destruct, 72 Seasons
often finds the band stripped right back to a rough
core. There’s a jam-room physicality in Shadows
Follow’s thrusting riffs, the one-two punches of the
moody Chasing Light and doomy Crown Of Barbed Wire,
the thrashing mania of the opening title-track, and
the NWOBHM nods of Too Far Gone?. Not that they’ve
become the Ramones, not with so many riffs and
stop-start stabs throwing the songs round so many
corners, but the performance here is one you can
hear sweating like a boxer.
There’s thrash and speed, just as there is stadium-
sized, Enter Sandman-ish riffs, and the odd payment
of respect to the doom of influences like Trouble,
often in the same song. On the album’s home stretch,
there’s shades of something approaching Rush on the
intro to Room Of Mirrors, while Inamorata closes
things out with the album’s most interesting, proggy
melody in its fat groove, almost like Baroness.
These comparisons are all fleeting and in the ear of
the beholder, though: mostly what this sounds like
is Metallica celebrating being Metallica.
For James Hetfield’s part, there are lyrics here
that are some of his most black-cloud since the
bitter cynicism of …And Justice For All. On
Inamorata, he describes how, ‘Misery she needs me /
Oh but I need her more’. 72 Seasons sees the
admission that ‘Mad seasons take their toll’,
wearing a ‘New mask’ and having ‘Completely lost
control,’ before Too Far Gone? comes with the
unvarnished assertion that ‘I am desperation / I am
isolation’. Though his bandmates recently insisted
to K! that the lyrics are ultimately positive, and
the album closes with the raised-fist defiance that
‘Misery, she’s not what I’m living for’, it’s a set
of words that very much Go There in order to come
back.
At an hour-and-a-quarter, like its predecessor, 72
Seasons is a lot to cram in in one go, a marathon.
But it slaps consistently, and hard. Moreover, it
sounds like a band caught up in their own energy, at
times as if they’re unable to stop until the song’s
ready to finally let them. And though 72 Seasons
isn’t a game-changer, it’s this that says the most
important thing here: Metallica being Metallica and
letting fly with all they’ve got is still a mighty,
charged-up, exciting, cathartic, deadly thing.
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