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ok maybe I should have said metal anthem instead of thrash metal anthem. "A Tout le Monde" isn't really thrash but it's still a metal anthem and not the kind of softer stuff Metallica does really well in "Nothing Else Matters" and parts of "One," "The Unforgiven," and "Fade to Black." Metallica has more versatility than the other bands because of this and I think that makes them better. However, Metallica are way bigger sell-outs than any of the other three bands, and the softer, more radio-friendly songs are a part of that.

But I'm pretty biased when it comes to judging these bands because I'm not actually into thrash metal. I went to the Big Four broadcast with a friend who was really into Megadeth and that was the only time I listened to thrash metal for more than 30 minutes at a time.

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Just because a band puts out softer stuff, it doesn`t make them more versatile and as said it just makes them more radio friendly and appeal to a wider audience. Hair metal acts got in on this idea before Metallica started doing it. Metallica were more versatile due to prog dabblings on "...And Justice For All" blues rock on "Load" and "Reload" and Nu-Metal on "St.Anger"

When Megadeth started getting more versatile they came out with songs like "Use the Man" from "Cryptic Writings" which featured a sampling of an old Searchers songs and it was just plain embarrasing. The "Risk" album as the name suggested, was probably the groups attempt at being really versatile and again the whole thing was a shambles.

Slayer no such nonsense, no compromise or very little, which is why I love them so much.