Surprisingly thrashier than your average modern Metallica song, but also the most speed metal and Motorhead influenced since their earliest days. This would be a weak point if it were on Kill Em All though, because while not terrible, it's pretty average for Metallica. Tight and proficient performance as expected, and James has not lost his iconic roar over the years, but structure wise it is quite basic for the band, the compressed modern production does not suit them, and it was a bit of an ... read more
"Ayo, this new PTV slaps" is a sentence I did not think I would ever say, but this decade has been full of surprises.
Starts off as a pretty interesting drone piece with some nice dark atmospheric tones. I do think it loses momentum once the percussion comes in though and goes through a couple seemingly random transitions. Recovers with some decent tones and soundplay near the middle, but it loses a bit of steam past this point again. Still though, I will say that it is a fairly experimental composition