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Since when did Heavy Metal have a good tune? Since Metallica. Ride the Lightning, a masterpiece of thrash metal was Metallica's second album. Their third album Master of Puppets is not thrash, as such, but every track is almost as unrelenting as Ride The Lightening. It has "Sanitarium" on it - a complete and utter masterpiece!
The Black Album, slower, was standard speed Metal music, a very high quality album, relying on catchy cords more than speed. The Black Album is Metallica's most well known album and is the best Heavy Metal album ever. Even Load and Re-Load are excellent although by their own admission, they no longer create music that we call Heavy Metal. Load and Reload contain some annoying tracks, but some like "Bleeding Me" which are unforgettable. Metallica evolved from top class Thrash to produce the best heavy metal around, then on to "power metal", and they are currently moving in a strange folk truck-driver type of direction.
| Kill 'em all |
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| 1 | Hit the lights | 4.17 |
| 2 | The Four Horsemen | 7.08 |
| 3 | Motor breath | 3.03 |
| 4 | Jump in the fire | 4.50 |
| 5 | Pulling teeth | 3.27 |
| 6 | Whiplash | 4.06 |
| 7 | Phantom Lord | 4.52 |
| 8 | No remorse | 6.24 |
| 9 | Seek & Destroy | 6.50 |
| 10 | Metal militia | 5.11 |
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Kill 'em all (Debut, 1983)
I know fans of Metallica and thrash metal will disagree but I find this to be the worst album. The lyrics are poor and meaningless, the style is thrash metal (this was a founding album of the Thrash genre) at the expense of most emotion or feeling. Just a whole series of similar tracks... low clarity and no excitement. This is my opinion. I just don't see what's in the album.
I like The Four Horsemen and Motorbreath most. The album isn't unlistenable... it's very well played but I just don't like it. So there!
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Ride the lightening (1984)
Ride the lightening contains some of the best, most complex and fastest Metal, Metallica starting here found their formula of emotion, stress, solos and very well written and interwoven music.
An astounding album. On average the tracks are 5/6 minutes long, Metallica really play with the (minimal) layers of music. The most emotional/meaningful thrash you can listen to, really. 6/8 tracks are unmissable. Two are "merely" good (Escape and Trapped under ice)
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| Ride the lightening |
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| 1 | Fight fire with fire | 4.44 |
| 2 | Ride the lightening | 6.36 |
| 3 | For whom the bell tolls | 5.10 |
| 4 | Fade to black | 6.56 |
| 5 | Trapped under ice | 4.03 |
| 6 | Escape | 4.23 |
| 7 | Creeping death | 6.36 |
| 8 | The call of Kthulu | 8.62 |
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| Master of puppets |
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| 1 | Battery | 5.10 |
| 2 | Master of puppets | 8.38 |
| 3 | The thing that should not be | 6.32 |
| 4 | Welcome home | 6.28 |
| 5 | Disposable heroes | 8.14 |
| 6 | Leper messiah | 5.38 |
| 7 | Orion | 8.12 |
| 8 | Damage, inc | 5.08 |
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Master of puppets (1989-MAY)
This album is slower and better arranged than Ride the Lightening, with the solos being more distinct. Four amazing tracks, anyone who understands any music beyond pop will appreciate and enjoy the slower tracks.
The tracks are a longer and just as involved and mesmerizing as on Ride the lightening, but with more releases and breakdowns than in Ride the lightening.
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| ...and justice for all |
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| 1 | Blackened | 6.40 |
| 2 | ...and justice for all | 9.44 |
| 3 | Eye of the beholder | 6.25 |
| 4 | One | 7.24 |
| 5 | The shortest straw | 6.35 |
| 6 | Harvester of sorrow | 5.42 |
| 7 | The frayed ends of sanity | 7.40 |
| 8 | To live is to die | 9.48 |
| 9 | Dyers eve | 5.12 |
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...and Justice for all
This album replaces with the "organized" approach that surfaced during Ride the Lightening and Master of Puppets with a more experimental approach, the music is the height of complexity, and Metallica (or any other band) has never matched the complex series of movements as in Blackened and the title track ...and justice for all.
One is the only release track, and it is the best of its kind. A slow emotional song which builds and builds into one of the most suspenseful and memorable Metal explosions.
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The final two tracks are a single musical piece, together 15 minutes, recounting a childhood trauma, with no explosions or harsh choruses, a long drawn out ballad like modern Black Metal, with the occasional classical breakdown. The album is worth it for "One" and these last two tracks.
| Black Album |
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| 1 | Enter Sandman | 5.29 |
| 2 | Sad but true | 5.24 |
| 3 | Holier than thou | 3.47 |
| 4 | The unforgiven | 6.26 |
| 5 | Wherever I may roam | 6.42 |
| 6 | Don't tread on me | 3.59 |
| 7 | Through the never | 4.01 |
| 8 | Nothing else matters | 6.29 |
| 9 | Of wolf and man | 4.16 |
| 10 | The god that failed | 5.05 |
| 11 | My friend of misery | 6.47 |
| 12 | The struggle within | 3.51 |
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The Black Album (1991-JUL)
This is the single best Heavy Metal album that there is. There is no thrash metal element in this album, and after all it is difficult to imagine how they could have topped their previous thrash tracks without sounding samey. Every track on the Black Album is catchy, with several amazing jems. It's like a best-of Heavy Metal.
It is the most popular Metal albums, appealing to a wide audience. My least favorite track is probably "Holier than thou", which is crap in the same whiney way as Ronnie from the album Load is.
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Load and Reload (? and 1997-NOV)
I'm covering these together because they are the only 2 Metallica albums that are consistent with each other in style. OK this is by their own admission "not Heavy Metal", it is certainly a heavy kind of rock, but it is much more mature and introflective than most rock, its audience is the older & more cynical person.
They have thrashed out the best and fastest through their career. These albums do not try to compete with past successes, they are a drawn out and melancholic look at growing old. There are some tracks that are too sentimental like "mama said" that sound over-produced in its sentimentality. There are a selection of great Heavy tracks, but they're melancholic. These two albums are the REM of Heavy Metal.
I feel everyone in the world should listen to every Metallica album (except Kill 'em all), but fans of Metallica should sample a few tracks from these albums. It's not what you'd expect of a Metal band.
These two albums are not without their mistakes and there are some intensely irritating tracks too! Ronnie, Prince Charming and Attitude are my three least favorite tracks! They just whine and moan!
Bleeding Me, The Outlaw Torn, The Unforgiven 2, Carpe Diem Baby and Where the wild things are are a brand new genre of music, progressive Metal, with fully explored and learned rifts and perfect rhythm, which I like. Very mature and non-screamy metal.
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| Load |
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| 1 | Ain't my bitch | 5.04 |
2 | 2 x 4 | 5.28 |
3 | The house that jack built | 6.39 |
4 | Until it sleeps | 4.30 |
5 | King Nothing | 5.28 |
6 | Hero of the day | 4.22 |
7 | Bleeding me | 8.18 |
8 | Cure | 4.54 |
9 | Poor twisted me | 4.00 |
10 | Wasting my hate | 3.57 |
11 | Mama said | 5.19 |
12 | Thorn within | 5.51 |
13 | Ronnie | 5.17 |
14 | The outlaw torn | 9.53 |
| Reload |
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| 1 | Fuel | 4.29 |
| 2 | The memory remains | 4.39 |
| 3 | Devil's Dance | 5.18 |
| 4 | The unforgiven 2 | 6.36 |
| 5 | Better than thou | 5.21 |
| 6 | Slither | 5.13 |
| 7 | Carpe Diem Baby | 6.12 |
| 8 | Bad Seed | 4.05 |
| 9 | Where the wild things are | 6.52 |
| 10 | Prince Charming | 6.04 |
| 11 | Low man's lyric | 7.36 |
| 12 | Attitude | 5.16 |
| 13 | Fixxer | 8.15 |
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| Best slow tracks |
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Fade to Black (on Ride the lightening)
Sanitarium (Welcome Home) (on Master of Puppets - one of the top 5 tracks!)
Unforgiven (on Black Album)
Nothing Else Matters (on Black Album - one of the top 5 tracks!)
Mama Said (on Load)
Low man's lyric (on Reload)
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| Best ballads |
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For whom the bell tolls (on Ride the lightening)
One (on ...and Justice for all - one of the top 5 tracks!)
Master of puppets (on Master of puppets)
Orion (instrumental, on Master of puppets)
My friend of misery (on Black Album)
Cure (on Load)
Bleeding Me (on Load - one of the top 5 tracks!)
The Outlaw Torn (on Load - one of the top 5 tracks!)
Unforgiven 2 (on Reload)
Where the wild things are (on Reload)
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| Best general/metal tracks |
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The Call of Kthulu (instrumental, on Ride the lightening)
Enter Sandman (on Black Album)
The Struggle Within (on Black Album)
Sad but true (on Black Album)
2x4 (on Load)
Hero of the day (on Load)
Until it sleeps (on Load)
The house that Jack built (a very weird track, on Load)
Carpe diem baby (on Reload)
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