Review: Timing is everything. Weezer's latest addition to the oeuvre is testa-ment to just how far it's possible to go wrong. Spoiler alert: this has nothing to do with the quality of the music. Instead, this ode to the heavy metal giants of days past simply managed to get caught up in the COVID-19 chaos of 2020. First pegged for release ahead of a stadium tour alongside Green Day and Fall Out Boy, dates and record were post-poned for 12 months. Now we have the record, but none of the shows as they're moved again, this time to 2022.
By which time the guys this is a direct tribute to - title and font reference the late, great Eddie Van Halen - will have been gone for some time. Thankfully, then, the album has enough strength not just to stand alone without the huge gigs to showcase it, but also long enough to survive until those gigs can happen.
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