10 Things Metallica Need To Get Right On The New Album

2. Write More Aggressive Lyrics

One of the biggest things that comes with age is complacency, and the feeling that some things are just out of your hands. Whereas with youth you feel you can take on the world, instead it feels more like the world is about to take you in and spit you out the other end. Such a thing is endemic to Metallica's discography, with the divisive St. Anger being the metaphorical 'spitting out' I was referring to. However you take one look at the last period in which the band were their youthful selves; 1988's And Justice For All, and you'll hear Hetfield writhing lyrically at the state of the justice system, the fragility of life, as well as writing one giant f**k you to his parents in the form of the religious-message-dismantling Dyers Eve. The world that Metallica were addressing is still most definitely in full swing today, and having grown up around many shocking news scandals, and bringing their children up in this "wartime generation" as Rise Against's Tim McIlrath once put it, surely this gives them many things to be angry about?