I'm listening to it for the first time right now. The songs aren't amazing, but I do give the band credit for TRYING to break out of the shitty stuff they wrote for Reload. Granted, that album had a few good tracks, but it really lacked for the most part. Maybe the band just playing at full speed with reckless abandon will help them reconnect to the music that made them great and help them in the future, who knows? The songs need more structure, as the best Metallica songs (One, Master of Puppets, For Whom the Bell Tolls) are very well thought out and structured.
Oh, and each song needs to be about 3 minutes shorter...
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