![]() Most metal heads might have been uneasy seeing the band branch out, but chances are no one was ready for the day when Jonathan Davis’s voice was fed through a blown out dubstep speaker. While they may have been going for a different sound here, having no guitar solos in the mix almost feels like the opposite of what a Metallica record should be, trying to tap into their more angsty side and just looking like a bunch of rock stars trying to fit in with what the kids were doing these days. If we’re talking about the raw sound of the record though, there’s no getting around the snare, which sounds like an industrial sized garbage can hitting you over the head every time you hear it. Compared to the more edgy sounds of nu metal that were happening at the time, hearing James Hetfield at his wit’s end on here is hard to listen to as a metal fan, bringing some of the worst riffs he’s ever committed to tape and pushing himself way too far out of his range on songs like “Frantic” and “The Unnamed Feeling.” After spending years as kings of the metal underground, their journey into the mainstream turned the genre into a household name, with people getting on the Metallica hype train and discovering everything that metal had to offer.īehind the scenes though, the band was in shambles, and you can hear that pain all over St. No amount of music industry BS was ever going to get in Metallica’s way. While most of these bands were able to bounce back after, this was a moment in time where they lost their footing. Even if there are a few salvageable tracks on the project, that doesn’t stop the rest of the album from being the low point that the band has put out. There’s more that goes into an album than just bad songs though, and some of these ended up getting bogged down by studios trying to get in the way of things, the producer steering them in the wrong direction, or a combination of all of them at the same time. Out of all of the incredible albums that each of these artists have put out in their time (and their have been many killer ones), these are the albums that came up far short. You don’t expect them to strike out that often, but when they do come up short, it can be an absolute train wreck. Even if you have some of the greatest musicians in your band and songs that hit like a sledgehammer, you’re never going to capture lightning in a bottle every time you go into the studio, and some of the biggest stars in the world tend to have those few albums that just don’t hit the mark. No artist can have a perfect string of albums forever. ![]()
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