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What do we want fromMetallica?
The question has plagued the California quartet for decades.
Asking Bob Rock, who mixed Bon JovisSlippery When WetandNew Jerseyand produced Motley CruesDr.
The group barreled through southern-rock dirges, alternative-radio staples, and power ballads, letting listeners fight among themselves.
72 Seasons, the bands 11th album,sharesHardwireds comfort in the vastness of the back catalogue.
It isnt running hastily toward or away from some earlier milestone.
groove for seven minutes; you wish Too Far Gone?
gave more time to the dueling twin-guitar leads that jump out in its back half.
The iron resolve at the end of Too Far Gone?
