I like ...And Justice for All, but it's certainly not their best album or the best metal album of 1988. I would even say that it was the beginning of the downfall for Metallica creatively speaking. Despite the production my only other gripe with it is the length. The Shortest Straw sounds like a b-side and should have been left off the album. They also could have shaved at least two minutes off the title track.
Also, Napalm Death released From Enslavement to Obliteration in the same year. I know which album I would go for to hear something angry and groundbreaking from 1988.
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