Favourite Metallica Album?

[Zephyrus]

Well I think Kill 'Em All is the rawest, but RTL feels darker.

 

[DarkBliss]

Yea, that's why I said "rawest with atmosphere", because while the debut is their rawest work, it's pretty lacking in the atmosphere department.More a riff-oriented album, I would say.

 

[ShredHeadJHJ]

MoP and AJFA are tied imo. Maybe a slight edge to MoP. I'm sure someone else has to have noticed this, but both of those albums have damn near the same exact layout. I wonder if it was intended or not. To clarify:

Song 1 - Both are energetic heavy riff monster opening songs.

Song 2 - The title tracks. Both long and complex.

Song 3 - Mid-paced catchy songs. Nothing to special about them. Though I will say, The Thing That Should Not Be is a killer song and blows Eye of the Beholder out of the water.

Song 4 - Heavy ballad style.

After song four is where the similarities start to wane due to the three shit songs on AJFA called The Shortest Straw, Harvester of Sorrow, and Frayed Ends of Sanity. However, each album ends the same exact way. Each have an epic feeling instrumental song, and a return to their heavy side to end the album with a bang.

Amirite or what?

edit: I changed my mind, MoP owns the shit out of AJFA as a collective work of art. Blackened, AJFA, One, and TLITD are all masterpieces though.

I think "The Frayed Ends of Sanity" & "Dyers Eve" are two of the best songs on the album. "The Shortest Straw" is also pretty good. I think Justice rapes Puppets myself. Puppets is still cool though. The big step up from Puppets to Justice is the quality of the solos & instrumental sections.

 

[ShredHeadJHJ]

RTL by far.. not one wimpy song... followed by MOP and Kill... anything after those 3 is crap to me...

Even Justice...??? :Smug: I can honestly say I wouldn't have listened to Metallica nearly as much if it weren't for Justice.

 

[mutantllama]

MoP and AJFA are tied imo. Maybe a slight edge to MoP. I'm sure someone else has to have noticed this, but both of those albums have damn near the same exact layout. I wonder if it was intended or not. To clarify:

Song 1 - Both are energetic heavy riff monster opening songs.

Song 2 - The title tracks. Both long and complex.

Song 3 - Mid-paced catchy songs. Nothing to special about them. Though I will say, The Thing That Should Not Be is a killer song and blows Eye of the Beholder out of the water.

Song 4 - Heavy ballad style.

After song four is where the similarities start to wane due to the three shit songs on AJFA called The Shortest Straw, Harvester of Sorrow, and Frayed Ends of Sanity. However, each album ends the same exact way. Each have an epic feeling instrumental song, and a return to their heavy side to end the album with a bang.

Amirite or what?

edit: I changed my mind, MoP owns the shit out of AJFA as a collective work of art. Blackened, AJFA, One, and TLITD are all masterpieces though.

Harvester of Sorrow is probably my favorite song off of AJFA.

Also RTL has a very similar structure as well.

 

[Life Sucks]

Where the fuck is "... And Justice For All"? I would have voted that one.

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. AJFA is my favorite Metallica album.

 

[Caecius]

You should at least know all the albums by a band or at least wiki it first. However, I voted Ride the Lightning with ...And Justice For All closely second.

 

[Belligerent]

Glad to see RTL is in the lead since that and Puppets are the only albums worthwhile.

 

[The Ozzman]

Glad to see RTL is in the lead since that and Puppets are the only albums worthwhile.

You are gay. Kill Em All is awesome

 

[Belligerent]

Meh. The Four Horsemen maybe.

 

[The Ozzman]

More like the whole album

 

[Lord Kur]

anyone who doesn't like "seek and destroy" is a dick

 

[Belligerent]

^I could go without ever hearing that song again.

 

[Silent_Scream]

I think it's funny metalheads still listen to Metallica.

Good joke guys!

 

[Lord Kur]

i haven't listened to a metallica album in at least ten years. i remember them, though.

 

[Thoth-Amon]

I think it's funny metalheads still listen to Metallica.

Good joke guys!

what's so funny? their old shit is great.

 

[SentinelSlain]

i always thought that the "fuel" song was really stupid

haha james desires fuel and fire. how idiotic is that?

i like metallica but I HATE that song.

 

[SentinelSlain]

im guessing people put s/a to extract the urine?

 

[The Heartbreak Kid]

what's so funny? their old shit is great.

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[Deicidal]

The first is always the best. I'm an 80's Metallica guy myself, with an exception to the black album, but after that, the other albums don't phase me.