I used to love metallica just like any other guitar playin punk teenager, but I've lost interest greatly over the years. load and reload were barely mediocre (there were a couple songs i remember liking)... st. anger was fucking awful. And I just find the older stuff so played out, and cliche that i get bored of it...

IMO these days Mastodon reigns over Metalica has the thrash metal band to listen to. Mastodon fuckin destroys (especially live)