- Artist
- Metallica
- Album
- 72 Seasons
Based on 8 reviews from outlets we track. Scores run 50 to 80.
| The gist | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| XS Noize | 4.0/5 | 80 | “"Metallica aren't some band". 72 Seasons opens up with a punch to the face and a go fuck yourself for good measure. It's a relentless opening that doesn't” |
| musicOMH | 4/5 | 80 | “Monstrously long it undoubtedly is, but it is also their most consistent work since the ‘Black Album’, and features some of their most creative work to date” |
| Spill Magazine | 7.9/10 | 79 | “Metallica 72 Seasons Blackened Recordings After polarising their audience with what I considered to be the very strong, albeit unnecessarily excessive album, Hardwired… To Self-Destruct, Metallica has returned with its…” |
| Slant | 3.5/5 | 70 | “Metallica's ‘72 Seasons’ serves as a streamlined hodgepodge of everything the band has done to date but lacks mellower moments.” |
| PopMatters | 7/10 | 70 | “While their most musically cautious work, Metallica's 72 Seasons still takes some huge risks. We all deserve to be happy, including our heavy metal heroes.” |
| Pitchfork | 6.4/10 | 64 | “Read Andy Cush’s review of the album.” |
| Clash | 6/10 | 60 | “Forty years on from their genre-defining debut, 'Kill 'Em All,' world-conquering thrashers Metallica return with an album very much embracing their roots” |
| Riff Magazine | 5/10 | 50 | “Except for the last two songs, '72 Seasons' sounds like Metallica, the Bay Area's thrash kings, are just about out of fresh ideas.” |
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How the Breakdown works
Every outlet’s score is converted to 0–100 (2/5 is 40, 5.9/10 is 59, a B+ is 88) and averaged. Grades follow the B-Side scale: A is 90–100, B 80–89, C 70–79, D 60–69, F below 60. Critics who liked it is the share of outlets that scored it 75 or higher; the Breakdown shows green at 75 and up, red below. Divisiveness asks a different question: not whether critics liked it, but how close their scores are to each other. Five critics who all give it 50 are Unanimous, even though none of them liked it. The labels run Unanimous, Broad agreement, Some debate, Divided, and Contentious. Replay rate comes from listeners, not critics: yes counts fully, a few tracks counts half, no counts zero. The gist quotes each outlet’s own summary of its review. Scores marked est. come from reviews that publish no number.
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