black album was way more mainstream than the first 4.
yes production quality was better, but the other albums did not have catchy singles like 'enter sandman'
agree with you sort of on load/reload.
good albums, but bad metallica albums.
good songs were unforgiven 2, bleeding me, outlaw torn (personal favorite)
st anger was indeed a lame ass effort POS.
the new album is not exactly comparable to AJFA, not at all really.
the 2nd half of day that never comes sounds like a disjointed jam session without any semeblence of a structure.
Cyanide is an extremely terrible sounding turd of a song. Hopefully that is the only one.
Greatest band of all time!
The first four albums were great, "Kill'em All" being the 4th best of that group IMO. The "Black" album, just as good as Puppets or Justice. it has better production quality, that's the major difference in that album from the first four and for some reason some view this as wrong in the metal world...makes no sense. The "Black" album is as metal as any metal album ever.
"Load" & "Re-Load" good albums, but not as good as the first five...still good though. If any other band in the world had done either of those albums they would have been huge hits. Metallica is like an actor that gets type cast and if he ventures from that even slightly people hate it. "King Nothing" "Ain't My Bitch" "Fuel" "The Memory Remains" all fantastic songs.
"S&M" hit or miss, a few songs are actually better though on this album i.e. "No Leaf Clover" "Hero of the Day"
"Garage INC" decent cover album, "Mercyful Fate" Whiskey in the Jar" good songs.
"St. Anger" awful...even Metallica will admit this. Horrible production quality, even worse with the drums and that odd sounding snare they put in there...just plain bad.
"Death Magnetic" the first two songs released, there is nothing wrong with these songs. "The Day that Never Comes" very much along the lines of "Fade to Black" with the first half, and when it kicks in, some very familiar riffs comparable to "...And Justice for ALL." "My Apocalypse" very reminiscent of "Dyers Eve"...fantastic intro.
Metallica, greatest band of all time!
