James Hetfield’s adventurous lyrics aren’t matched by the tempo on a 77-minute album set to chug mode
, both of which harked back to the inventiveness and sheer energy of their 1980s material. In their wake,, the Californians’ 11th album, feels like a step backwards. While the 12 songs here are indisputably as heavy as anything they’ve ever recorded, across 77 long minutes the tempo is far too often set to “chugging”, except on a couple of bracingly thrashier numbers and the more nuanced closer, Inamorata.
At least there is greater adventurousness lyrically. James Hetfield delves back into his troubled childhood for some of his most personal lyrics to date, most notably on the bleak Chasing Light: “Lost his way through wicked streets, but he is someone’s little boy”. (Not every song is this revealing
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