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View Poll Results: What is your favorite Metallica album? | |||
Kill' Em All | 20 | 15.38% | |
Ride the Lightning | 30 | 23.08% | |
Master of Puppets | 37 | 28.46% | |
And Justice for All | 13 | 10.00% | |
Metallica (Black Album) | 22 | 16.92% | |
Load | 1 | 0.77% | |
Reload | 1 | 0.77% | |
St. Anger | 5 | 3.85% | |
Death Magnetic | 1 | 0.77% | |
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10-12-2013, 08:40 PM | #1 (permalink) |
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Your favorite Metallica album?
With their new album being released sometime next year, I figured it was appropriate to see which of their past nine albums was your favorite.
Here's my personal rundown of their albums: Kill' Em All: I never could get into this one. I'm a fan of good production value, and this just sounds like it had no budget as well, and it's too dated. Ride the Lightning: This one is their first album with memorable songs. "Fade to Black" comes to mind. Master of Puppets: This is their most liked album among fans, and I can see why. It's their first album that really solidified their place in metal music, even though they weren't famous at the time. And Justice for All: This is my personal favorite. Even with Cliff Burton gone, they managed to pull off a kick-ass record that surpassed Puppets in the intensity of the music. "One" was the first song I ever heard by them, so I'm biased towards this album. Metallica (Black Album): Their most commercially successful record, and the most trashed by dedicated fans second to St. Anger. While the black album is their sell out record, I can't really blame them for making it. Without this release, most of us might not have ever heard of Metallica. Besides, for a commercially successful metal record, this still kicks ass. Load: At this point in the career, they're not even metal anymore. Commercial success clouded their creative vision at this time, but I have to say that this album isn't that bad. Sure, it's not Puppets or Justice good, but it's still heavy enough as well as having that unique Metallica sound. Reload: Basically a B-side to Load, and my opinion is the same here. St. Anger: Their most hated record, and deservedly so. The drums sound like trash cans being banged on in a storage garage, the songs are way too long, the lyrics are tired and uninspiring, and the production sounds like it was recorded with the same technology that Kill' Em All was produced with. There is a few good moments here, but they're not worth scouring the whole album for. Death Magnetic: A definite improvement over Anger, but still very disappointing. It's like the band forgot how to make kick-ass music, and they sound like they're tired of recording in general. Nothing about this album blew me away. I sincerely hope their 2014 album that they've been working on blows all metalheads away in terms of heaviness, creative lyrics and songwriting, as well as a new-found energy in recording and touring again. So with that said, what is your favorite Metallica record? |
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Not to mention that the cover of "Am I Evil" from that time period blows Diamond Head's version out of the water.
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I actually prefer the Diamond Head version of the song but I guess most won't agree with me there.
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Thou art a fool. The Metallica version creates the perfect dark atmosphere that the song calls for. It just sounds so sinister and heavy. The head bangs whether you will it to or no. The Diamond Head version just sounds obsolete by comparison.
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10-16-2013, 04:42 PM | #7 (permalink) |
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I miss me some Cliff Burton...
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10-16-2013, 07:30 PM | #9 (permalink) |
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RtL is the first one with memorable songs? Do fans not lose it when they hear the opening riff of "Seek and Destroy"? What about "Motorbreath", "The Four Horsemen", and "Jump in the Fire"?
That being said, I did in fact vote for RtL. |
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