72 Seasons Rating

How does everyone rate 72 Seasons on a scale of 1 to 10? Think about song writing, performance, production, and your personal thoughts. I give it a 8.9/10 overall. The lowest song is If Darkness Had A Son with 7.5/10, and the highest is Inamorta with a 10/10.

I’ll admit I haven’t listened to the entire thing, but I have heard the tracks that seem to be considered the best (title track, Lux Aeterna, Room of Mirrors, Inamorata, Screaming Suicide). Based on those, I’d probably give a 5

Christian Thrash Rules wrote:How does everyone rate 72 Seasons on a scale of 1 to 10? Think about song writing, performance, production, and your personal thoughts. I give it a 8.9/10 overall. The lowest song is If Darkness Had A Son with 7.5/10, and the highest is Inamorta with a 10/10.

I give it around an 8.5/10, but I round up.
Btw Darkness is one of the best songs in the album, idk why it gets so much hate.

StevenCressler wrote:

Christian Thrash Rules wrote:How does everyone rate 72 Seasons on a scale of 1 to 10? Think about song writing, performance, production, and your personal thoughts. I give it a 8.9/10 overall. The lowest song is If Darkness Had A Son with 7.5/10, and the highest is Inamorta with a 10/10.

I give it around an 8.5/10, but I round up.
Btw Darkness is one of the best songs in the album, idk why it gets so much hate.

It's not bad. Just feels like it's a little long and repetitive.

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Christian Thrash Rules wrote:

StevenCressler wrote:

Christian Thrash Rules wrote:How does everyone rate 72 Seasons on a scale of 1 to 10? Think about song writing, performance, production, and your personal thoughts. I give it a 8.9/10 overall. The lowest song is If Darkness Had A Son with 7.5/10, and the highest is Inamorta with a 10/10.

I give it around an 8.5/10, but I round up.
Btw Darkness is one of the best songs in the album, idk why it gets so much hate.

It's not bad. Just feels like it's a little long and repetitive.

Your favorite is Inamorata...

I really enjoyed this album when it came out, but I have quickly lost interest. I gave it a 5.

This is actually a good idea, I should do this for some other albums

The problem with modern Metallica is that both the playing and the composition lack dynamics. One uninspired riff changes into other with no excitement built into them, and those riffs repeat way too often. With too high "production quality" there's nothing interesting going on in the "color" of the music either.

I think modern Metallica is Blues Country Thrash. The riffs have this bluesy feel to them, but not in a good way. They feel like they could be good if they had a little twist to add a sharp punch or a darker tone to them. A lot of them feel as if they were looking for a riff and found one but didn't know how to end the riff with enough excitement, so they just try something that would make the riff passable enough so that they can loop the riff.

I'm now going through 72 Seasons and I'm now at If Darkness Had a Son. So far every song has been about 2/5, with a few parts that are 2½/5.

Lux Aeterna is maybe a 3/5 song, but even for only a 3½ minute song it feels overlong. I like to compare that song to Megadeth's 1,320 from Endgame. They both are sort of trying to achieve the same kind of a drive, but Lux Aeterna has zero suprises whereas 1,320 not only manages to change in between 4-5 different riffs but it it throws a curveball during the last third of the song and changes gears before the earlier riffs ovestay their welcome.

The vocal melodies are very uninspired too. Now going through Chasing Light not a single riff has been memorable and I'm just hoping the next song would start sooner.

These riffs feel somewhat like modern Mortification riffs in that they feel like their only goal is to be loopable riffs, and often they seem to just end the riffs with a few random chords or notes and call it a riff that can be played over and over again. Granted they are not as simple as modern Mortification at its worst but it's not too far from that.

What I enjoy the most is the voice of James. He sounds pretty good in this album. His voice seems to have a rasp that hasn't been there before.

Oh man, the album was playing on another tab and Inamorata was on. I went to look how much is left. I legit thought at least 6 minutes had passed by and it's about to end but it was at 3:43 and even bigger shock was that it's almost 12 minutes long....

OK now I just realized that I've been listening to these songs in a completely wrong order, lol
I wonder if they feel any better in the correct order. Oh well...


I think my favorite track might be Room of Mirrors because of the melodic part that appears twice in the last third of the song. It's a honest and legit 4/5 part! And quite possibly the only part that I can still remember.

I give the album 4/10. It would be 3/10 without James' new raspy voice.

EDIT:
The only two songs I feel like I might want to listen again someday are Room of Mirrors and Too Far Gone. And even those songs are half-forgettable.

I agree about that melodic part in RoM, it's my favorite part of the album

StevenCressler wrote:

Christian Thrash Rules wrote:

StevenCressler wrote:

Christian Thrash Rules wrote:How does everyone rate 72 Seasons on a scale of 1 to 10? Think about song writing, performance, production, and your personal thoughts. I give it a 8.9/10 overall. The lowest song is If Darkness Had A Son with 7.5/10, and the highest is Inamorta with a 10/10.

I give it around an 8.5/10, but I round up.
Btw Darkness is one of the best songs in the album, idk why it gets so much hate.

It's not bad. Just feels like it's a little long and repetitive.

Your favorite is Inamorata...

The difference is they did that better

I still like it and still say it's my favorite since the Black Album. 

The production style is very similar to Hardwired but they've taken that formula and made better songs with it.

The choruses are catchier on 72 Seasons than on Hardwired.

My only real complaints are with the rhythm guitar tone being too thin and of course Kirk's solos are still mainly mediocre. He's been that way since Load.

MagnusPrime wrote:I still like it and still say it's my favorite since the Black Album. 

The production style is very similar to Hardwired but they've taken that formula and made better songs with it.

The choruses are catchier on 72 Seasons than on Hardwired.

My only real complaints are with the rhythm guitar tone being too thin and of course Kirk's solos are still mainly mediocre. He's been that way since Load.

Unless you count the RoM melodic section as a solo, that is

I heard 2-3 songs and someone would have to pay me to listen to the rest of it.

StevenCressler wrote:

MagnusPrime wrote:I still like it and still say it's my favorite since the Black Album. 

The production style is very similar to Hardwired but they've taken that formula and made better songs with it.

The choruses are catchier on 72 Seasons than on Hardwired.

My only real complaints are with the rhythm guitar tone being too thin and of course Kirk's solos are still mainly mediocre. He's been that way since Load.

Unless you count the RoM melodic section as a solo, that is

I see it as more of a melody line, but you could consider it a "solo" I guess. It gets stuck in my head a lot.

Most of the time (at least in years past), Hetfield was the one who came up with most of those types of solos. Kirk of course handled the "flashier" more technical stuff. At least until Load when he decided to turn into Mr. AT&T.

     

MagnusPrime wrote:

StevenCressler wrote:

MagnusPrime wrote:I still like it and still say it's my favorite since the Black Album. 

The production style is very similar to Hardwired but they've taken that formula and made better songs with it.

The choruses are catchier on 72 Seasons than on Hardwired.

My only real complaints are with the rhythm guitar tone being too thin and of course Kirk's solos are still mainly mediocre. He's been that way since Load.

Unless you count the RoM melodic section as a solo, that is

I see it as more of a melody line, but you could consider it a "solo" I guess. It gets stuck in my head a lot.

Most of the time (at least in years past), Hetfield was the one who came up with most of those types of solos. Kirk of course handled the "flashier" more technical stuff. At least until Load when he decided to turn into Mr. AT&T.

     

I do agree though, Kirk had some great solos on the first 4-5 albums, and then...

Unforgiven III is IMO their best full solo since TBA.

I give it a respectable 7.