Since the group’s rabid four-album start, setting a ridiculously high bar for turning doom-metal and thrash-nihilism into wrenchingly emotional high art has been the blessing and curse of Met…
Since the group’s rabid four-album start, setting a ridiculously high bar for turning doom-metal and thrash-nihilism into wrenchingly emotional high art has been the blessing and curse of.
As in 2016’s “Hardwired… to Self-Destruct,” but with more mournful melodies as its guide, Metallica 2023 — Hetfield, Hammett, Lars Ulrich, Robert Trujillo — reemerges energized without losing the forlorn freneticism of the new songs’ intent. Plus, there is a density, a snap and a crack to drummer Ulrich and bassist Trujillo’s rhythmic partnership that was sorely missing from the quartet’s 2016 album.
The one who is not having the same good time, intentionally, is Metallica’s vocalist and lyricist, a man remaking and remodeling himself ever since his inward looks via therapy and recovery. Putting forth a “Citizen Kane”-like mission statement for “72 Seasons” at the end of 2022, Hetfield wrote: “72 seasons. The first 18 years of our lives that form our true or false selves. The concept that we were told ‘who we are’ by our parents.
Cleaving to the intention of his mission statement, Hetfield rues “temptation” like a mantra on the thrashing “If Darkness Had a Son,” sings of “deep withdrawals” on “Chasing Light,” and looks forward one-day-at-a-time on “Too Far Gone?” with the knowingness of a guy who has seen too much and wants off the mat.
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