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10. You
9. Can't
8. Just
7. Rank
6. These
5. Albums
4. They're
3. All
2. Good
1. Ride the Lightning
Ah ahahah nice one ;)
For me: i like Very much load, but all after I don’t
St. Anger suuuuuuuuuccckkkkksssssssssss
Thissss
The first 4 are pretty interchangeable in that
St. Anger and the Loads are shit
They sold out alright. Sold out every show they've done. My absolute favorite band. Great job with the ranking!!
@Sleezy_Q That sums up the situation exactly. Personally I've not bought one of their albums since 88.
@@arejaycee5484 shame some fantastic songs you missed on.
@@arejaycee5484 what a shame you missed both TBA and DM
@@anony-moonLoad/Reload also has great songs too!
-Fixxxer
-Bleeding Me
-Outlaw Torn
-King Nothing
-Fuel
-Devil's Dance
-Wild Things
-Ronnie
-Prince Charming
-House that Jack Built
@@redyyz4489 yeah but overall they aren't great albums. Devil's Dance is an awesome song
And justice for all is actually my favorite album I really dig how powerful the drums sound especially his bass drum but the no bass at all does suck but overall the album is killer and filled with heavy Riffs and Lars best drumming in my opinion
It’s my favorite Metallica album too.
Great ranking! Master is my fav. Saw them wipe the stage with Ozzy on The Ultimate Sin tour. One of my all-time favorite bands.
I remember one of the members of Alice in Chains (probably Cantrell) once said how disappointed he was about Metallica cutting their hair. He didn't even know until he saw Metallica sitting in the front row at their Unplugged show.
Dude what an amazing video, thank you so much, it will be super cool if you do the full retrospective
Thanks, I'll consider it.
Justice is my favorite. As for many, expressed in every forum. The tone crushes as do the drums. The reverb makes up for the lack of bass on a good system and with songs like Blackened, One, Dyers Eve, etc. Definitely Metallica at their heaviest point.
1. Ride The Lightning
2. Master of Puppets
3. Kill Em All
4. And Justice For All
5. Black Album
6. St. Anger
7. Death Magnetic
8. Hardwired To Self Destruct
9. Load
10. Reload
Why the fuck is st. Anger so high
@@getarplayer5958
Now I would only move Death Magnetic above St Anger. Reason it’s so high is because it isn’t complete garbage like the three below it.
@@heelstevenmaggle5615 hardwired is a good album better than death magnetic and load and reload have some good songs. Nothing is redeemable about st. Anger though. I would love to know why you think it's not garbage
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I listen to harsher music than St. Anger so it’s not as obnoxious to me even the snare is fine to me. The songs are bloated and have horrible lyrics which are big problems with Metallica in general; but I just really enjoy the songs for the most part. Frantic, St. Anger, Dirty Window, Invisible Kid are all great songs to me.
I did not realize at the time, but I was at the last Day on the Green at the Oakland Coliseum before Bill Graham died. Lineup was an unknown bad called Soundgarden, then Faith No More, then Queensryche which played Operation Mindcrime in its entirety, and finally Metallica. We were gen admission. Damn that was a great show! You have perfect list, Master is barely above Ride, but geez, Leper Messiah and the totally forgotten Disposable Heroes, which is a top 5 for me, wish they would play that album live, take care.
I also skip Nothing else Matters as well! Miley Cyrus covered it for bleeps sake!
Great video! Hate that I’m just seeing it now but oh well. And here I am, the one guy whose favorite album is Justice. Haha I definitely enjoyed the video and will check out more of your stuff.
Great video man! Keep up, you're my favourite reviewer! 👍 Greetings from Italy!
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Glad to have you here.
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Bleeding Me is a great song as a guy who also struggled with alcohol.
And Justice is easily my favourite Metallica album Best album they ever did.
Absolutely.
15:53 If you're talking about the intro melody on "Don't Tread On Me", that's actually "America" from West Side Story. Other than that, amazing video!
On top of that it's a good song
no one hates metallica more than metallica fans
Yes
@@ScoopedMids great video mate. came from facebook!
Master Of Puppets is also my favorite Metallica album. No, it's my favorite album of all time. I love this album so much. And the title track is my favorite song of all time and has been that way for over 6 years.
strong agree. i love that album and song to death.
I’m from Minneapolis Minnesota and have to do a shout out of your Prince love!
Metallica is the sole reason why I love metal music.
My ranking:
1. Black Album
2. Master of Puppets
3. Ride The Lightning
4. And Justice For All
5. Kill Em All
6. Death Magnetic
7. Hardwired... To Self Destruct
8. Load
9. Reload
10. St. Anger
I’d swap Hardwired and Load around but besides that I fully agree.
You are a cool cat and i agree, you just missed on AJFA, which is of course is higher on the list. Keep it up!
1 master
2 Ride
3 Black
4 kill
5 load
6 reload
7 justice
8 death
9 hardwired
10 st anger
1: kill em all
2: ride the lightning
3: master of puppets
4: ...and justice for all
5: the black album
6: garage inc./ the 88 EP
7: hardwired
8: load
9: death magnetic
10: REload
11: st. anger
12: lulu (although I like Lou Reed, it’s a piece of shit).
On your point about lulu, I often say that a bad album/film is better than a boring album/film. Prime example
Be here now (bad album) and heathen chemistry (boring album).
I agree it can be more enjoyable to talk about bad albums. But, when it comes to Lulu and St anger I just feel it's been done to death and it feels too easy.
THIS. Best ranking. Nailed it.
My favorite is definitely ....And Justice For All. Or, more accurately, ....And Justice For Jason, as it was what it was SUPPOSED to sound like until Lars and James fucked it up.
@MAIN ... MIXED correctly
JASON DEVERVES JUSTICE.... FOR ALL
I am an oasis fan feom day one who found metallica in 1996 now they are up there.
I can sing all the old stuff i really became a die hard.
For me:
1) MOP
2) justice
3) ride
4) horseman
5) black
6) load
7)reload
8) the rest unfo i havent heard too much
bro your tweakin And Justice for All got the best riffs, lyrics, and vocals. lowkey the guitar tones too
Did I not say I liked it?
1 - Master Of Puppets
2 - Ride The Lightning
3 - And Justice For All......
4 - Death Magnectic
5 - The Black Album
6 - Kill Em' All
7 - Hardwired To Self Destruct
8 - Reload
9 - St Anger
10 - Load
16:16 My stepdad would disagree as Justice is his favorite.
Pretty solid list mine is
11.St Anger
10.Reload
9.Garage
8.Load
7.Hardwired
6.Death
5.Black
4.Kill
3.Justice
2.Master
1.Ride
Ik this was before 72 seasons was made and I would put that at 8
My ranking
1. And Justice For All
2. Ride The lighting
3. Master Of Puppets
4. Kill Em All
5. The Black Album
6. Death Magnetic on par with some of the First 5 in my opinion Honestly i love The Loudness of it
7. Reload
8. Load
9. St. Anger
10. Hardwired To Self Destruct
11. Lulu
I knew in the first 30 seconds of your video that you the kind of metallica fan that put puppets first....to me....1..justice
2.lightning
3.kill
4.puppets
5.garage days re-revisited
6.thats it....
1. ...And Justice For All
2. Ride The Lightning
3. Master Of Puppets
4. The Black Album
5. Load
6. Reload
7. Death Magnetic
8. St. Anger
9. Kill 'Em All
10. Hardwired...To Self Destruct
11. Lulu
How is kill em all number 9
my metallica album ranked:
1 - kill em all
2 - and justice for all
3 - ride the lightning
4 - master of puppets
5 - metallica
I guess I’m the only one who loves Load & Reload and will more than likely defend those albums until the day I die. Other than that great list James.
I love Load and Reload too, you are not alone!
For what it is, Load is good, but it has filler. Reload is not so good with even more filler.
I like load. I always saw it as Metallica's blues album
I adore Load and Reload, I made 3 fucking compilations with them. They get waaaay too much shit
People just hate on them cause they aren't thrash. As if that means it's not good hard rock music? Lol
AC/DC was my gateway band to heavier music (bought Back in Black then Highway to Hell). First Metallica album I ever owned was the Black Album. Once I heard that album I bought their first four albums. My gateway album to Metal was Paranoid by Black Sabbath, it was super cheap like $5 and I heard that it was a good album so I checked it out. Metallica, Black Sabbath, and Iron Maiden are my favorite metal bands.
This is how I would rank the albums:
1. Ride the Lightning
2. Master of Puppets
3. ...And Justice for All
Tied for 4th: Kill Em All and Metallica
Tied for 5th: Death Magnetic and Hardwired to Self-Destruct
6. Load
7. Reload
8. St. Anger
Man, to each his own, but it's so cliche for me to listen to Metallica fans rank the albums because you know St. Anger will be very last and the Load and Reload albums will be just above it. I'm like just about everyone in that upon the first several listens (maybe a hundred listens, lol!), I hated the album and thought it was trash! But despite the crappy snare, it is a pretty good, though uneven, album! The first half is pretty damned good! Until you get to Invisible Kid, lol! Shoot Me Again and The Unnamed Feeling are AWESOME! Some Kinda Monster, Frantic, and St. Anger are all pretty great too! Personally I'd rather listen this album any day before I'd listen to Kill Em All or Hardwired To Self-Destruct. The band took a gigantic leap in quality from their debut to Ride The Lightning. Load was a great album! One of my favorites! After the black album and Master Of Puppets of course. And maybe Ride The Lightning too. Definitely top 5 for me though!
List is nearly perfect. But we disagree on Kill em All. My number 1. That record is a lightning bolt tied to a bull whip, with the most ear splitting solos Kirk has ever unleashed. Also, Ride the Lightning is my #2. Master is legend incarnate, but those first two took my brain to cosmic levels. 🤘
Exactly! Kill em all is pure god damn thrash metal I want injected into my veins!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My list.
9.st.anger
8.death magnetic
7.Reload
6.load
5.Ajfa
4.the black album
3. Master of puppets
2.kill’em all
1.RIDE THE LIGHTNING
And I know I missed some but l don’t care.
1. And Justice for All
2. Master of Puppets
3. Ride The Lightning
4. Metallica
5. Hardwired to Self-Destruct
6. Kill 'Em All
7. Load
8. Death Magnetic
9. ReLoad
10. St. Anger
You know, music becomes a bit homogenized when fans expect the artist to remain in a genre/sub-genre box. Usually the ones that wanted ten more versions of the first or second album from that artist are stuck. A good artist will expand and change over time. But, then again, the music industry is a just a business, right?
1. Ride The Lighting
2. Kill Em All
3. The Black Album
4. Master of Puppets
5. And Justice For All
6. Garage Inc
7. Death Magnetic
8. Hardwired
9. Load
10. Reload
11. St Anger
12. Lulu
9.
16:12 And Justice For All is my favorite Metallica album < there ya go
Kings of metal 🤘🏻
I am an old school fan since the release of "Ride the Lightning" but as Metallica grew, evolved and changed so did I with them. I understood and embrace the changes. Sure their first three albums are untouchable however, if Metallica tried to go back and repeat these classics they would get criticized for repeating the same formula over and over again. No matter what this band does they get bashed.
I prefer them being like this than being AC/DC. At least every Metallica album is different and can be enjoyed for different reasons.
Id switch And Justice and Kill em all. But other than that I agree with your list.
1. …And Justice For All - 10/10 (best album ever)
2. Ride The Lightning - 10/10
3. Master Of Puppets - 10/10
4. Kill 'Em All - 10/10
5. The Black Album - 10/10
6. 72 Seasons - 9.7/10
7. Hardwired… To Self-Destruct - 9.4/10
8. Death Magnetic - 9/10
9. Garage Inc. - 8.5/10
10. Reload -8/10
11. Load 7/10
12. St. Anger - 6.5/10
13. Łüłü - 0/10
* Ride the Lightning
* ... And Justice for All
* Master of Puppets
* Black Album
* Kill em All
* Death Magnetic
* Load/Reload (agree that this could've been one album tho)
* Hardwired to Self Destruct
* St. Anger
My Rankings:
15. Lulu
14. St. Anger
13. Beyond Magnetic
12. S&M2
11. RELoad
10. Hardwired...To Self-Destruct
9. Death Magnetic
8. Load
7. ...And Justice For All
6. Garage Inc.
5. Kill Em' All
4. Metallica
3. Ride The Lightning
2. Master Of Puppets
1. S&M
I love the day that never comes, cool song with a cool meaning. I dont think it would've been "appropriate" as a thrash song with the song being what its about
You get a like simply for talking about Metallica while wearing a Prince shirt and having a poster of The Smiths in the background.
My ranking:
10. St Anger
9. Reload
8. Load
7. Hardwired to Self-Destruct
6. Kill 'Em All
5. Metallica
4. Death Magnetic
3. And Justice For All
2. Ride the Lightning
1. Master of Puppets
I ,Love load and reload. In mid 90s their was no better rock or metal but ya they in the middle of the pack for me , I actually like st anger better then death magnetic to crazy
Gimme Foo Gimme Fie Gimme Jabba Jabba Jie!
16:16 Welp.. ya found me, my favorite is Justice soo
Maybe I’m a basic Metallica fan but damn the only Metallica albums I love are the first 3 than theres 2 I think are alright but I don’t like anything else and I’m gonna throw in the garage days ep because I love that one
11) St. Anger
10) Death Magnetic
9) Reload
8) Load
7) Hardwire
6) Metallica
5) And... Justice For All
4) The $5.98 Ep
3) Ride The Lightning
2) Master of Puppets
1) Kill Em All
my ranking : i only like and care about these .
puppets
justice
-kill em all
ride the lightening
hardwire
black album
My favorite album: Justice for Jason.
Kill'em All is my favorite album. Ride The Lightning and Master Of Puppets are great too. My least favorite is St. Anger. Many fans know it's bad.. Some Kind Of Monster isn't good but it is listenable. So is Frantic. Hopefully from now on we will get in your face thrash like the first three albums.
10) St.Anger
9) Hardwired To Self Destruct
8) AJFA
7) ReLoad
6) Kill ‘Em All
5) Ride The Lighting
4) Load
3) Death Magnetic
2) Master Of Puppets
1) The Black Album
Welcome to Hell by Venom was the first thrash album. I don’t even like Venom that much.
For me my introduction to hard music was System of a Down got into them in 5th grade back in 05-06 somewhere there but my dad had already put me on zeppelin along with other 60s70s bands and some 80s Metallica is fucking awesome though no artist/band has a perfect catalog people give them to much shit
Master : Greatest album in metal history - the only fault is that Ride sounds so much better. I was hoping that would've improved with the remaster but sadly none of the remasters (especially Justice) did much to improve the sound quality of any of the albums. Ride's guitars just sound do much thicker and have so much more power to them. James' guitar sounds way too compressed on Master.
Lulu
St. Anger
Reload
Load
Hardwired... to Self Destruct
Metallica
Ride the Lightning
Master of Puppets
Kill 'Em All
Death Magnetic*
And Justice For All**
*The Guitar Hero III version of the album, not that Rick Rubin earrape
** The And Justice For Jason mix with the audible bass
i generally agree with your ranks but dude... what is your problem with "the day that never comes" bro😭
...And Justice For All
Master Of Puppets
Ride The Lightning
Kill 'Em All
Reload
Metallica
Load
Hardwired...To Self Destruct
Death Magnetic
St Anger
Kill Em All is my favorite album .
lulu is honestly not my least favorite metallica album i like it more than st anger at least
Love em all, but here goes:
10. St. Anger
9. Re Load
8. Death Magnetic
7. Load
6. Hardwired
5. Metallica
4. Kill em All
3. Ride the Lightning
2. And Justice for All
1. Master of Puppets
Ranking every goo goo dolls album worst to best
I don' like Metallica that much because of the metal saturation that was happening in the 90s. was only a kid in the 80s. to many kids growing in 90s up only knew about Metallica as being a metal fan it was eye rolling. seeing people only knowing about them St Anger i hated that album trash can drums never forget the first time I heard that album I thought something was wrong with my cd player
Good ranking overall..
Thanks
The black album and master of puppets are my favorites but I don't like enter sandman.
Number one - LOAD the best.
Honorable mention - St. Anger.
The worst - ride the lighting - Mega Gay,
1. Master of Puppets
2. The Black Album
3. And justice For All
4. Ride The Lightning
5. Death Magnetic
6. Load
7. Reload
8. Kill Em All
9. Hardwired
10. St.Anger
1.kill em all
2.ride the lightning
3.master of puppets
4...and justice for all
Everything else is garbage.
Change my mind.
It’s not garbage, it’s just not Thrash. There is more music in the world you know?
Hey, man loved this video, and I really liked the way you explain things, but i have to say. I really disagree.
10. Kill em all.
My first from bottom would be kill em all. Lyrics are simple, stupid and written by a teeneager with zero idea of what he's doing. Drums are not interesting. The thing that peole say about this album is that is really aggressive and yes, it is. But I dont think that playing that E as fast as posible is that of a big deal. Only really good thing is Cliff, but still, he feels inmature.
09. St anger
Then it would be st. Anger wich I can't judge as hard as many would. For me it sounds like a band falling apart, that's full of anger and recovering at the same time.
08. Reload.
It's kinda lame for the most part. The heavy hard rock songs just sound like they have no actual porpose, and the other different, darker songs just dont do enough to compensate.
07. Hardwired... To self destruct.
It just feels that they were'nt really inspired durimg the creation of the album it sounds like they just said "it's been eight years, lets make another one" and you can tell when you lisent to the solos and the drumming that this may be tha case. But i have to say. Songs like Hardwired, Moth Into Flame, Atlas, Rise, Halll On Fire, and Spit Out The Bone that they can still do it, so i have faith on the next one.
06. Load.
It's a good slow, groovy album, with really interesting lyrics. It souds really experimental, dark, and creative. With amazing Songs like Bleeding Me, that sweet melancholic Hero Of The Day, and the masterpiece that The Outlaw Torn is.
05. Deat Magnetic.
It's just a really good album. It lacks a little aggressivity, some fast riffs, and a strong sounding production. The guitars sounds so weak, and the drums sound like cardboard boxes. So that's a really low point on this one.
04. Ride The Lightning.
A big jump from the inexpert band that was on kill em all. Now they have way better lyrics, a lot more creativity. And the sweetest Kirk Hammet solos. It falls just a litle on Escape, and it does'nt sound like the best they can do, but with such a good album like this, it's just a promise for something better.
03. ...And Justice For All.
The "let's fucking do it" album, nothing boy excellent, heavy, interesting, well crafted songs. It may be just a little over the top, but still amazing. A low point on this one is the production aspect, but doesn't ruin the experience.
02. Metallica.
The meaning of perfection. An excellent album with a clear porpose, that gets you to an excellent sounding experience, through some simple, short, and great songs.
01. Master Of Puppets.
It's Master of puppets, man.
Lars must been hitting trash cans with St Anger
Hard pressed to find someone who says AJFA is their favorite Metallica album he says...well that's a take. 😅
Ik a lot of people like it but out of all their classic records, AJFA is by far the least liked.
@@ScoopedMids, I don't have any way of really proving/disproving that statement but ::puts on Internet boomer hat::: "back in the AOL metal forum days, brother" the going consensus was that AJFA was the superior metal album with MoP being a very close second.
ride the lightning is the best very far
1 Kill em all
2 ride the lightning
3 master
My personal list.
1. Ride The Lightning
2. Kill Em All
3. And Justice For All
4. Master of Puppets
5. Death Magnetic
6. Hardwired
7. St. Anger
8. The Black Album
9. Load
10. Reload
10. Reload 7.3/10
9. Load 7.5/10
8. St. Anger 7.5/10
7. Death Magnetic 7.8/10
6. Hardwired 8/10
5. Black Album 8.4/10
4. Kill em all 8.6/10
3. Ride the Lightning 9.7/10
2. Master of Puppets 10/10
1. And Justice for all 11/10
I enjoy Lulu, and my favorite album by them is Load.
Ride the Lightning is my favourite and For Whom the Bell Tolls is one of my top 10 favourite songs ever and the rest of the top 10 are not metal
I honestly recommend every Metallica fan listen to Lulu in its entirety at least once. I feel the well around this album has been poisoned based on the idea alone, if you actually listen to it you can hear the fun that Lou Reed and the band are having making these fucked up macabre pieces. Not saying it doesn’t have its ill conceived and boring moments here and there but at least it feels like the band is trying something new instead of being on autopilot(like their last 2 albums basically). It’s neither Lou nor Metallica’s best but it’s a lot better and interesting than St Anger at least
Top 4 Metallica albums:
1. Ride the Lightning
2. Black Album
3. Kill em all
4. Master of Puppets
“You’d be hard pressed to find this being someone’s favorite album” umm, hi
So where would you say 1000 seasons ranks?
idk. Maybe just below death magnetic? It is not aging well with me.
@@ScoopedMids Same, they need to try something new, I don't know something to reignite the spark, Imagine an album full of songs as good as spit out the bone
I personally think that st. anger is the worst album but if it was recorded in a better time of the band and had better sound quality than it would be amazing, but despite that I have soft spot for it because I use to watch the documentary a lot when I was younger.
But in Garage ink I’d have to say there 1987 songs that they put on there where good I thought
When I talk about garage inc I'm only referring to disk one. All the stuff on disk two is a a compilation of previous covers.
Ok
There is only one Metallica for me, the one from 1983-1988.
Congratulations
10. St. Anger - [F] (Need I say more?)
9. Death Magnetic - [D] (Terrible production, half the album is forgettable)
8. Hardwired... to Self Destruct [C] (An improvement from DM, but again, half the album is forgettable)
7. Reload [C] (There are good to great tracks, but the filler tracks are just really not good)
6. Load [C+] (Same as Reload but less filler on this album I feel)
5. ...And Justice for All [B-] (Some real killer tracks on this, but there's a few I just really can't get into like Sorrow and Beholder... and poor Jason)
4. The Black Album [B+] (Great production, only thing holding this album from ranking higher for me are the overplayed radio singles... great album nevertheless)
3. Master of Puppets [A-] (Absolute masterpiece with only two songs I don't typically listen to often being Messiah and Damage)
2. Kill 'Em All [A+] (Despite the production, it's an almost perfect thrash album, would have preferred if it just ended with S&D since I really don't care for Militia but still an amazing record)
1. Ride the Lightning [A+] (This album is just fucking incredible man, only song I typically skip is Escape but everything else is some of the best work Metallica did back in the '80s)
I dont like reload and load but how do you not like fuel that's the only good song from that era of metallica. And the memory remains is an alright song and I really like unforgiven 2 so reload definently way better than load but not by much
My controversial ranking of Metallica's albums: (Don't hate me)
Load (1996) & ReLoad (1997)
Metallica “The Black Album” (1991)
Ride the Lightning (1984)
Kill 'Em All (1983)
Hardwired...to Self-Destruct (2016)
Master of Puppets (1986)
...And Justice For All (1988)
St. Anger (2003)
Death Magnetic (2008)
I personally like Load and Reload more than garage inc and kill em all, Death Magnetic and Hardwired.
How can you hate on Nothing else matters? What the fuck dude? That song is the gateway into Metallica,it goes on to stuff like The Unforgiven , Enter Sandman and Master of puppets
You start with that order and you've probably made a new Metallica fan
I just don't like the song
Hardwired is barely over an hour? No offense but how can you do album reviews if you're not even listening to the albums? Hardwired is 78 min long. That is well over an hour. Too much over. But this is true of every Metallica album since Load which coincides with the release of the compact disc that fits 80 min of space. Metallica purposefully tries to fit as much music in an eighty minute space on all of their releases since Load. Which is the main criticism of all their music since: their albums are just too long.
lick my taint
A fellar can't be wrong no more
St. Anger is best fucking fight me
Terrible idea making load and reload. Should have taken the best songs from each and made one album. A lot of bad songs on those two. It does make a good single album though.
I'd actually probably place Justice as one of my least favorites. Production is an obvious fault. The lack of bass, the thin, lifeless, unsupported guitars, and the DRUMS. The drums are credited as having a "strong" sound, when really they're some of the most thin, papery drums I've heard from Metallica. A tom shouldn't sound like you're smacking a pancake, and the kick shouldn't die out IMMEDIATELY after it's hit. But, the album also painfully bloated. Most of the songs would GREATLY benefit from being cut down by a couple minutes. Also, a few of the songs just aren't that good. Eye of the Beholder is one of the draggiest songs Metallica made in their classic era, Harvester is seen as a classic song even though it doesn't do ANYTHING interesting, TLITD is way too long for what it actually does (actually, most of the songs don't really go anywhere or do anything special). The songs also have some of the most awkward compositions I've ever heard in Metallica's catalogue. The whole thing is just janky and boring to me. The lyrics and some of the individual riffs are good, sure, but those can only take a song so far.
I was listening to the Metallica Podcast and The Black Album was a reaction to Justice, James talked about how when they were playing songs like Justice and Frayed Ends the crowd were looking up at the rafters, at the floor, at each other. They were bored with how long the songs were droning. Going into The Black Album they wanted to make shorter, catchier songs you could really jump around and dance to. They realized just how bad the sound and overall production was and reluctantly let Bob Rock bring out their full potential and capture their raw energy they put into live performances and translate that to vinyl