You're making it sound like Metallica was a "trve metal" band before And Justice for All. They'd been flirting with non-thrash songs long before. About half of Ride the Lightning was melodic, in fact it was a much more radio friendly album than AJFA. Of course Master of Puppets had "Sanitarium". "One" was not a departure for the band, it was just more of the experimentation that they'd been doing since their second album. It wasn't even as melodic as "Fade to Black".
Someone mentioned that "Sad but True" was just another "Harvester of Sorrow", but they'd been making heavy, midtempo songs for years. "Leper Messiah" and "The Thing that Should Not Be" off Master of Puppets, and "Seek and Destroy" from Kill 'Em All.
I agree that they'd been flirting with commerciality before The Black Album, but they'd never let their core sound become as compromised, simplified, and stale as on The Black Album. Superficially it did sound like a Metallica record, but in fact it really sounds almost nothing like the Metallica of old.
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