By not pressing to recapture the past on their 11th studio album, Metallica sound more liberated than they have in decades.
Metallica’s present-day members are either just on the verge of or just past the age of 60. Ditto for their peers in thrash metal’s so-called Big Four: Anthrax, Slayer and Megadeth. While promoting Metallica’s last album, drummer Lars Ulrich disclosed that no one knows how much longer the metal giants will be able to hold up the physical end of the bargain.
When Metallica pioneered the accelerated, aerodynamic form of metal that would eventually come to be known as thrash, they were fueled by piss, vinegar, alcohol and, most importantly, a hunger to push music forward. It’s shocking to think about now, but three of the band’s then-members were only 18 at the time. With Metallica leading the charge the whole way, thrash metal’s commercial stock ticked up from about 1986 to 1992 or so.
The bad news, however, is that many of the riffs are indistinguishable from watered-down records by likeminded groups from the mid-’90s, such as Anthrax’s
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