So much may be mentioned in regards to the final two Metallica albums — I ought to know, I wrote our evaluate on their newest, 72 Seasons. However they’re nonetheless comparatively new sufficient additions to an already spectacular discography that it is likely to be a bit too quickly to look again on their place within the full lineup. But that’s not stopping drummer Lars Ulrich from pre-emptively attempting to manage the narrative and let folks know these data had been good.

Throughout a chat with the band’s personal So What? journal, Ulrich mentioned he regarded fondly on each data, saying that now that everybody’s previous the “honeymoon interval” with these data, folks can now successfully see these albums for what they’re.

“Now with 72 Seasons being out a pair, what, 4 or 5 months, the report’s nonetheless very recent to me. I like what I’m listening to. I don’t take heed to it fairly often, however simply six weeks in the past, once we began the North American run in New York, there have been a pair extra songs that we needed to be taught. So I listened to these songs and listened to the report. I don’t suppose I’d heard it in six weeks, however it nonetheless sounded very recent, weighty and cohesive.

“I’ve mentioned this many instances: there’s what I name the ‘honeymoon interval,’ which is whenever you make a report and end a report, you place that report in your again pocket, and you then go off into the world. And in some unspecified time in the future, you take heed to that report once more, and in some unspecified time in the future, you begin having some questions in regards to the decisions that had been made. [For] totally different data at totally different instances, that honeymoon interval may be brief, may be lengthy, no matter. So, 4 to 5 months later, I nonetheless don’t have plenty of questions. I’m pleased with what I’m listening to, I’m appreciative, and I like the alternatives that had been made.

“The attention-grabbing factor about this report can also be – and this type of dawned upon me as I used to be doing interviews for 72 Seasons within the spring – that each report, by means of no alternative of your individual, is all the time associated to the earlier report. In case you just like the earlier report, that impacts the place you’re going with the subsequent report. In case you don’t just like the earlier report, that impacts the place you’re going with the subsequent report. So, by way of the lineage of the data, the subsequent report is all the time tethered to the earlier report indirectly, form, or type.”

Launched earlier this 12 months, 72 Seasons was a largely alright report, with some components that positively felt like they overstayed their welcome. Nonetheless, it’s higher than St. Anger or Lulu, so it’ll all the time have that distinction.

As for Hardwired… To Self-Destruct, Ulrich mentioned that report “aged actually, rather well” and that it was an ideal stepping stone that obtained the band to 72 Seasons.

“I’ve made no secret of the truth that Hardwired, definitely for probably the most half from ’16/’17 ahead, has been a report that, in my ears, has aged actually, rather well. So, once we began the method of what turned 72 Seasons, there was no radical try to change the course ahead as a result of Hardwired felt like a very good jumping-off level.”

So yeah, it’s nice to see he’s pleased with the final two albums. Whereas there are definitely tons of individuals on the market that may disagree with him, I feel I largely observe what he’s saying. What are your ideas? Tell us within the feedback part.