Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Beating a dead horse . . .

Yup this album sucks. The remarkable thing is how both "old" (pre black album) and "new" metallica fans have almost universally panned this record. I've heard of "stripped-down production" but this record simply sounds amateurish. It really is a tragedy and here's to hoping that no more good bands succumb to this "dumbing down" trend and throw away all their growth and maturity and regress back to suckdom.