Metallica's last chance

Hi friends. Well, the title may sound a little bit too radical, but it's how I feel about the next Metallica album, which will be hopefully released by the end of this year or something like that.

Why last chance? simple. Since the band was formed, Metallica released a series of masterpieces, with the extra value of never doing the same in two following albums. In each of them, they added something new. That's why Ride the Lightning is different from And Justice for all, and this one different from The Black Album, for example.

But something changed with Load. It's fair to let the band try new things. They guys probably got tired of their classical heavy/thrash metal and went in different paths. Load and Reload are not bad albums, in fact some songs are good. But any comparison with the preceding albums is obscene. But things got even worse, to the point of making me mad, in St. Anger.

St. Anger is a BAD album, whose production is a shame for a band that makes so many million dollars. Not a plucking in the whole album, not a solo, nothing. It's fine that a band tries new things, but if you sing opera and want to change into techno, then create a techno band.

Anyway, I'm optimistic that the band will react, because in my opinion this is their last chance. Time flies, and if they make another mediocre album, I'm afraid that all of our all time fans will finally have to assume that Metallica as a creative band is over and dedicate ourselves to listen their older stuff.

Thank you for reading this and feel free to add any opinion that you may want to express.