Metallica - Hardwired... To Self-Destruct: Ranking Every Song From Worst To Best
3. Dream No More
If you feel like too much of the album is generic and just standard fare Metallica, give this track a blast, because it has a totally unique, aggressive sound with some of Hetfield's most impassioned vocals.
It helps that the lyrics are ridiculously insane, and Het's "Cthulu, awaken!" is awesome beyond words, while the song also packs some of their heaviest ever guitar work (creating a sound reminiscent of both classic Sabbath and Alice in Chains) and Kirk pulls off a savage solo near the end.
It'd be easy for Hetfield to be phoning it in at this point in his career, so it's mind-boggling that his voice arguably sounds on peak form here.