Music Monday: Metallica – 25 years and counting
25 years old
Back on August 12th, Metallica’s “Black Album” turned 25 years old. I blogged about it and my introduction to the album here almost 5 years ago. Nothing has changed from that review/reflection. The album is still played often here.
Actually, one thing has changed from that review. I finally sat down a couple years ago and listened to “Ride The Lightning” from start to finish about a dozen times. And a few dozen more since then. The entire album is great, but the two tracks that stand out are “Fade To Black” and “Creeping Death” And there’s been a couple live streams that I’ve heard in the last year where those two songs performed live have really cemented their place as favorites.
New Song, New Album
“Hardwired” official video
This last week, Metallica released a new song called “Hardwired” and announced a new album called “Hardwired…To Self-Destruct” which will be out November 18, 2016. It’s a double album with almost 80 minutes of new music spread across 12 tracks.
I’ve listened to this new song a good 20 times so far and it gets better with each listen. And this last Saturday, they performed it live for the first time. Below is the YouTube video.
“Hardwired” live for the first time
Pretty awesome!!! That stage, that sound, the pure energy of James Hetfield’s chorus shout of “We’re so fucked… shit outta luck” is masterful. Can’t wait for the full album in a few months.
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I liked this album initially but grew to strongly dislike it. But I did see them live in support of this album as well as the Fuel tour and they were great both times. Just something about this album.
Jealous you got to see Metallica live. Still waiting for them to tour again that’s closer to home. As for the dislike of the album, I can see that.
Man, Hardwired is awesome! Thanks for the link! I am totally downloading that to play in my class on Friday!
Isn’t it? So good and gets better every repeated listen. Curious how your class will like it.
The album that turned me onto Metallica. As you saw I posted on Twitter how it was an accident I even listened to it. Borrowed a coworker’s car and was nosy about what tape they had in their car stereo. Was blown away. Still love this album to this very day.
Awesome.