METALLICA - 72 Seasons (14/04/2023)

merci foule fête a écrit:Tiens. Un bon titre de Metallica. Ça faisait bien 26 ans que ça n'était pas arrivé. Bien, le chant "rock" de Jaymz. J'aimerais tant croire que tout l'album sera de cet acabit mais ce 1er single ressemble quand même très fort à un appât pour ferrer les grognards de la 1ère heure (ceux qui achèteront l'album), donc je préfère rester prudent, on est pas à l'abri que le reste soit constitué de morceaux mollement prog ou de ballades soporifiques.

merci foule fête a écrit:Tiens. Un bon titre de Metallica. Ça faisait bien 26 ans que ça n'était pas arrivé. Bien, le chant "rock" de Jaymz. J'aimerais tant croire que tout l'album sera de cet acabit mais ce 1er single ressemble quand même très fort à un appât pour ferrer les grognards de la 1ère heure (ceux qui achèteront l'album), donc je préfère rester prudent, on est pas à l'abri que le reste soit constitué de morceaux mollement prog ou de ballades soporifiques.

merci foule fête a écrit:Tiens. Un bon titre de Metallica. Ça faisait bien 26 ans que ça n'était pas arrivé. Bien, le chant "rock" de Jaymz. J'aimerais tant croire que tout l'album sera de cet acabit mais ce 1er single ressemble quand même très fort à un appât pour ferrer les grognards de la 1ère heure (ceux qui achèteront l'album), donc je préfère rester prudent, on est pas à l'abri que le reste soit constitué de morceaux mollement prog ou de ballades soporifiques.

Metalleux footix a écrit:After 6 long years, Metallica have finally decided once more to curse us with new music to prove that even though it's been over 40 years since their formation, they're still as mediocre as ever, if not worse. So, today, the 28th of November in the year of our lord 2022, marks the day in which Metallica presents to us their latest single, "Lux Æterna".

Let's be honest here, Metallica hasn't released anything anywhere above "mediocre" since 1988, and personally I believe that they haven't released anything good since 1983, but that's just my own belief. Back in 2016, ye olde house brand metal band Metallica released Hardwired... to Self-Destruct, which was one of the most pathetic and boring attempts I've ever heard from any old band to go back to their roots, and it seemed as if that was finally it, as if finally Metallica decided to just preserve their legacy and release endless live albums for the rest of their existence, but they had to come and ruin it again with what I predict will be another disappointing album that will nevertheless get a ton of hype because of metal dads that still treat "Master of Puppets" as the greatest song ever recorded.

Now, regarding the song itself, it really just sounds like a Hardwired outtake. "Lux Æterna" presents us with a throwback to very early Metallica, with a main riff very reminiscent of what we had Kill 'Em All, but the entire thing feels a bit too uninspired, as if it was just the band trying to rip off its former self instead of recreating themselves in a way that doesn't make this song sound like such a bore. This main riff gets old really fast because it's overplayed throughout the song: in the intro, in the choruses, in the bridge, in the outro... it seems as if Kirk and James are so proud of coming up with it that they just want to play it everywhere they can. When said riff isn't being played, you only really get 2 things: a chromatic riff that sounds almost good at the very beginning and the very end of the song, and a tonal chord progression in the verses and pre-chorus that's just a filler for the riff. Quite frankly the chord progression is so boring and basic that it makes the whole song sound dull, almost anti-thrash, and the mild tempo doesn't help it at all, let alone the very square palm-muted strumming; the only thing keeping this whole song from being some regular modern hard rock is about 20 BPM.

If the overall riffing in this song wasn't as dull as a plastic knife, the guitar "solo" in the middle of the song definitely puts the listener to sleep; the best analogy I can make of it is Kirk Hammett trying to imitate Kerry King with a bit too much wah. The solo is just senseless pseudo-shredding with some dissonance and whatever-the-fuck-you-can-play sections, it's just a bore, it's not good in any way imaginable. Maybe one of the few saving graces in this song is are James' vocals which are, for his age, holding up relatively well, but they're certainly missing that old harshness and tone they had back in the day, instead sounding much cleaner, and while I'd much rather have the old thing, these vocals are just enough.

The drumming is what you'd expect from Lars, with the mixing being crap and the highs being too high, and while the drums are ok in terms of just being played properly, they fail at providing anything to the music other than a steady, square rhythm, or in other words, they're expendable and lack much more purpose than the most basic one it has. The bass guitar is also just not taking any mildly interesting role in the music, just limiting itself to mimic the rhythm guitar to a point in which it's almost annoying that Trujillo's talent is just being locked away from this song either by his own choosing, or by the rest of the band's.

Judging just from this track, I can predict that Metallica's upcoming album, 72 Seasons, will be just another stain in their now-long history, joining "Hardwired" as another crappy attempt at reliving their old glory. Hopefully whatever we find on that album will be better than this here track, but judging by my previous predictions from pre-release singles, namely with Sabaton's latest album, there's nothing to be hyped about.

Invité a écrit:C'est du hard rock de boomer