METALLICA

Release Year: 2023
Artist Origin: USA
Style: expressive energetic thrash heavy metal

both album title and its plainspoken cover suggest that American supergroup, like a prodigal son, after the turn of the millennium is trying to get back to a fairly heavier sound [2003], yet this time round they do that in a much more modern context, cheekily experimenting with sound, yet hardly getting support from those who worship early era material, actually getting even more damned by the old school audience; once again - everything depends on one's position, as distancing from subjectivity the music is quite angry and straightforward, aggressive and ambitious, with plenty of chunky thrash metal elements and pissed vocal expression, while calmer breaks act as a connective link to mellower material of mid/late nineties; recent gatefold sleeve double black vinyl edition, US import