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Originally Posted by TheBig3
Its major problem to me isn't length but lack of diversity. To me if you're 3 minutes into any track on that album it can be hard to tell where you are. I don't know if its the lack of bass, but the songs on that album seem to lack a certain character that makes them stand out from one another. If I have to pick one sound to describe the album it would be whatever they did to the guitar:
flat, low, staticy, like you're hearing it on an AM station. It whats Metal would sound like if it applied the philosophy of a funk band to a metal album. In all its a really great album, I obviously love it being a big metallica fan, but it lacks a flavor that its predecessor and successor seemed to have.
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In their defense they had just lost one of the best metal bass players of all time. I prefer the first three to AJFA, but its an oustanding album in its own right. I love Dyer's Eve, that was the last song that Cliff Burton orchestrated with Hetfield before he passed on. Newsted is a great player in his own right, but its hard to follow up Burton. AJFA is classic Metallica, their last record I bought.