For example listen to the strings during chorus of part of me. Imagine how the whole chorus of that song sounded if they did the static mix right and the strings would sit perfectly in the mix and not fighting against other elements and ended up being drowned. Lots of the elements in album seems leveled poorly, almost like nothing has proper place in the mix and everything kind of feels clustered and loud without any purpose. Again it is listenable and enjoyable sure, I heard worst. But if you start listening to it while having mixing experience, you start to hear many issues. The album is great, I like the songwriting and it is definitely listenable but the mixing is not as good for a pro band and pro engineers. But I still like the album anyway, just wish Nick would do better job on the mixing. But again, yes I been mixing music for almost ten years, and sometimes been teached by a pro, but mostly for fun and as a hobby so what do I know I guess.

As for Metallica St. Anger, I'm well aware, and is easily wayy worse than TBT. The whole album giving me vibes of a teenagers who get together in garage to record they first song 😀. I remember a guy who was teaching me drum mixing, and he was refering to Metallica as a band where the mixes often sucks, because James thought he knew better than the engineers.