Blog: Raindog's Rants

I, like most listeners of Metallica I know, abandoned the band after the ...And Justice For All album. Their sparse output in the 1990's and this decade -in a word-...sucked. What do you do when you master a genre? The answer for Metallica was try others- including southern rock, pop (I went back and listened to the "Black Album" and it has not aged well), prog, and bluesy rock. It didn't work. Thus, Metallica became shadows of their former selves. When news surfaced the band was going to try to return [...]