Russ’ Record RainbowJustice has been derided for too damn long as technical but soulless, cold, LONG, and lacking bass.
Those last two points are true enough, I guess. But there’s so much good to this album.
Yeah, I know that they went in grieving and decided to make the most challenging, technical music they could. And I know that James in particular was hit HARD by Cliff dying to the point where he didn’t seem to get over it until *checks notes* about a year before 72 Seasons came out? At the earliest when the Through the Never movie was released.
Honestly, it felt like James was holding onto his grief because he felt like letting it go would be betraying Cliff.
It’s sad.
This album is impossible to disentangle between a grieving band, a band that HAS to get back into the studio to maintain momentum, and a band that is starting to have honest to god challengers that are also gaining steam.
It had to happen and it was always going to be this, good and bad.
Yes, the songs get a little long. But I still love it. I really embraced the “shit’s fucked, let’s fix it,” attitude present in most of these songs. Everyone always talks about how negative metal is but I honestly think bands like Metallica skew so far towards “we can fix this” that they look like hippies who write good music.
I love it. Genuinely.
And “Dyer’s Eve” alone is worth the price of admission.
Probably could have cut “To Live Is To Die” altogether, though. That main Spanish section is a 40-second intro a la “Battery” and little more.
I am VERY interested in finding the elusive “And Justice For Jason,” which I understand is just this album with bass. I would buy that.
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Those last two points are true enough, I guess. But there’s so much good to this album.
Yeah, I know that they went in grieving and decided to make the most challenging, technical music they could. And I know that James in particular was hit HARD by Cliff dying to the point where he didn’t seem to get over it until *checks notes* about a year before 72 Seasons came out? At the earliest when the Through the Never movie was released.
Honestly, it felt like James was holding onto his grief because he felt like letting it go would be betraying Cliff.
It’s sad.
This album is impossible to disentangle between a grieving band, a band that HAS to get back into the studio to maintain momentum, and a band that is starting to have honest to god challengers that are also gaining steam.
It had to happen and it was always going to be this, good and bad.
Yes, the songs get a little long. But I still love it. I really embraced the “shit’s fucked, let’s fix it,” attitude present in most of these songs. Everyone always talks about how negative metal is but I honestly think bands like Metallica skew so far towards “we can fix this” that they look like hippies who write good music.
I love it. Genuinely.
And “Dyer’s Eve” alone is worth the price of admission.
Probably could have cut “To Live Is To Die” altogether, though. That main Spanish section is a 40-second intro a la “Battery” and little more.
I am VERY interested in finding the elusive “And Justice For Jason,” which I understand is just this album with bass. I would buy that.
#vinylrecords #vinylcollection #recordcollection #vinylcommunity #vinyl #recordoftheday #recordcommunity #musicsky #vinylsky #metallica #metal #andjusticeforall #justice #metalrecords #metalrecordcollection #thrashmetal #80smetal
Beyond The Pale
Jake in the desert
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