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1.Death Magnetic by: Metallica September 12, 2008
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Turn the dial back to 1991 for a minute. That's the year Metallica's hit "Enter Sandman" and Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" both stormed on to the charts. It was a turning point for rock music. The former track marked the high point of popularity for a band that had dominated the metal scene for much of the previous decade with epic albums shot through with equal measure of dark lyrics and face-melting musicianship. The latter song defined a just-budding decade and launched a million garage bands who hoped that a surplus of angst and flannel would make up for their meager repertoire of guitar chords. Within one year, Cobain's catchy hooks and stripped-down act seemed to make the brooding extravagance of Metallica and other metal bands ... Read More

2.Metallica by: Metallica August 12, 1991
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It's almost twenty years after the black album came out. I was a rabid Metallica fan when this album first dropped (I was 14). At the time, I was extremely heartbroken. This was not the band that pressed the previous four albums (five counting "Garage Days"), all of which are still in my personal top ten of great heavy metal records. I have bought those four albums several times, on LP, cassette, and CD. I bought this album once, on cassette, almost two full decades ago. This isn't one that needs replacing. Not that it's a bad album. It's just a bad Metallica album. You went in expecting Kill Em All, Lightning, Puppets, and Justice, and instead you got "New Jersey" from Bon Jovi. Bob Rock has his cheesy fingers all over this album. The Black Album is a snapshot of one of ... Read More

3.Master of Puppets by: Metallica October 25, 1990
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Why buy it? - so you can understand why Metallica received negative reviews about Load, ReLoad & St. Anger - so you can hear the roots of Death Magnetic - because of Kirk's relentless shredding - James' pain forced out in Sanitarium, Heroes, Puppets, Battery... - Cliff's last recording - Lars at 100 mph vs. 70 today - it's MASTER OF PUPPETS, arguably one of the greatest metal albums of all time. "If you own it, you'll never be able to explain. If you don't, you'll never understand." - Eddie p.

4.Ride the Lightning by: Metallica October 25, 1990
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Metallica may have artistically peaked with Master Of Puppets (or maybe Justice), but this is my favorite album by them. It balances the fiery rawness of the debut with the more complex arrangements found on Puppets to create one of metal's defining masterpieces. Anyone who's ever had even a passing interest in metal has owned this album at some point or another. It starts out with what is arguably Metallica's hardest hitting song of their career, Fight Fire With Fire (dig those drums, Lars!) and never lets up. The only real "break" we get is the semi-ballad Fade To Black, which is definitely one of the band's top five songs. The album culminates with the one-two punch of Creeping Death and Call Of Ktulu. There's also these two other songs on the album called For Whom The Bell Tolls and ... Read More

5....And Justice for All by: Metallica October 25, 1990
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To make clear, I am review the 2 LP reissue of Metallica's "...And Justice For All." This is the 4th in Metallica's current vinyl reissue project. Justice is one of my favorite Tallica albums of their great catalog. Song are heavy and meaty. Most of them about 8 minutes and longer. I won't take up a bunch of time reviewing the songs, because it's been done to death. These reissues have been great from the start and this continues the trend. All original artwork has been restored. The vinyl itself is very high quality and great care has been taken with the half speed mastering. If you want to here Metallica like never before, pick this and the other reissues up. You won't be disappointed!

6.Kill 'Em All by: Metallica June 20, 1995
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Okay, couple things I need to get out of the way since this is a review of the vinyl version of this album. First, to enjoy this vinyl record fully, you NEED good equipment to play it on. I'm talking at or near audiophile-level hi-fi equipment, with the turntable being nothing less in build quality than something like a Technics SL-1200. That being said, it would have been real good if Metallica had re-mixed and re-mastered this album for re-issue on vinyl. The big problem I have with it is that James Hetfield's lyrics are a little too buried in the mix on most of the songs. One thing I will say too is be prepared to really turn up the volume to hear things really good. This album really pushes the LP vinyl format to its limit, with 27 minutes of music on side one and 26 minutes on side two. ... Read More

7.S&M by: Metallica November 23, 1999
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As a long term fan of Metallica this album was an interesting way to revisit all of the songs that have been screaming out of my stereo over the past 20yrs. The best album they've put out since And Justice for All...

8.Garage, Inc. by: Metallica November 24, 1998
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When I found out Metallica was doing an album of cover songs years ago, I was skeptical right away. How can a thrash metal/speed metal band make it believable and create versions that surpass the originals? Well, they couldn't. This is just really really bad. The entire collection. Two hours of cover songs, and every single one of them inferior to the original versions. The worst part is how many people went into this album probably not even aware of the original versions anyway, and just assumed "Well, it rocks, so Metallica's back!!" while completely ignoring how tasteless this collection of cover songs really is. Maybe it's the vocals that ruin the entire thing? Yeah, that's probably it. Or maybe Metallica just wanted to abuse their thrash metal style by covering songs that do NOT -in ANY way ... Read More

9.Load by: Metallica June 04, 1996
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Okay, I'm going through the inevitable re-assessment of Metallica's catalog that comes with every new album. With Load, I have the same opinion that I did ten years ago: if this album had been made by anyone else, it would have been hailed as a great ROCK album. Problem is, Metallica spent all those years putting out truly epic, towering songs. After their 1st four albums (lets just ignore BLACK) anything other than truly legendary thrash built on mathematically precise, wonderfully layered foundations sounds weak and pathetic. The songs on this album are good. I spent a lot of time listening to it and still go back every once in a while. I, like everyone else (or at least everyone who was around for the old stuff and has good taste) would have preferred MORE of the old sounding stuff. That being said, what's here is good music ... Read More

10.Reload by: Metallica November 18, 1997
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If you are of the speed metal only type of metallica fan, then this is not for you. However, if you love music, then this is. With Death Magnetic, Rick Ruben, along with many old metallica fans, said "make the album that should have come after And justice for all". The thing is, they made that album already. It's called "the Black ALbum". The fact of the matter is, Metallica was ready to move forward after "justice" - they had taken the "prog-metal"/speed metal thing as far as they could take it, and for them to evolve as musicians, they HAD to realease the stripped-down blues metal experimentaion that was "metallica(black album)", Load and Reload. which was, incidentally, just as important and influential as their first four albums. Musically, this is growth. this is experimentation. not something that the relatively narrow -minded""new ... Read More

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