Okay, this will probably be the last time I listen to this album in it's entirety.
That Was Just Your Life - This I liked. Pretty solid. Probably my second favorite song on here.
The End of the Line - Decent riff and solos ruined by Hetfield's shit lyrics. "The slave becomes the master?" Seriously? Worst line on the album. Also lots of stretched out filler in the second half. Not completely awful but not good either
All Nightmare Long - Fine until the last solo that ends around 5:20. They could have done an outro there and finished and it would have been an okay song. Instead they again tack on an extra two minutes of virtually nothing except the same recycled riff. This is becoming a trend.
Broken Beaten and Scarred - Garbage except for the last two and a half minutes when Hetfield stops wailing his cliched hook and you get to hear some classic thrash
The Day that Never Comes - Sounds like a band pretending to be Metallica
Cyanide - Complete and total shit
Unforgiven III - Sounds like something straight off of (Re)load. The awesome solo at the last two minutes doesn't save the song, and I can't seem to get it out of my head that I'm listening to UNFORGIVEN FUCKING III WTF JAMES
Judas Kiss - Easily the best song on the album.
Suicide and Redemption - Probably could have shaped up to be a decent song if they cut down the length. This track represents everything wrong with the length of the songs on the album. I'm all for long thrash a la And Justice For All, but nearly every song on here seems like they tried to engorge it with simple, repetitive riffs that just drift along. Hammett can still play but I think they tried to hard to separate themselves from the disaster of St. Anger and overdid the whole epic song thing
My Apocalypse - This is decent overall but it's especially apparent on this one that Hetfield's voice just can't carry the song anymore. You can seriously hear him straining on some lines.
Biggest problem on this album is probably Hetfield. Cringe-worthy lyrics, and vocals that make me want to turn the CD off and go listen to old Metallica. The direction of some of the songs also just sounds like they never know where they are going anymore
