Typical Metallica. Not as great as Master of Puppets. Not as bad as St. Anger.
Good opening riffs, but the track mixxing seemed off...drums and vocals very annoyingly mixed.
Everybody went out and bought St. Anger as soon as it came out, they had 3 million copies sold before word got out how bad it was. People will be a lot more cautious this time around, I expect it to start slowly and take off if it actually turns out to be good.