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mandan
March 28th 2025


14061 Comments


it was incredible. my friend’s older sister had it on a loop on a cassette.


Interesting tale.

I mean yes, these guys got big, but sometimes one forgets if was for a reason.

It took me a long time, but now I dig all the first 5 from this band.

Though I don't own the CDs yet, and I believe the last versions I heard were remasters.

Goodolboy
April 26th 2025


1624 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

The production on this is perfect. One of the best sounding albums of all time easy. Wherever I may roam is in my top 7 Metallica tracks probably. And that's a tough list

TheSonomaDude
April 26th 2025


10162 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off

yeah production wise this is stellar. it's weird that they basically went backwards after this in terms of the studio sound

DoofDoof
April 26th 2025


17653 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Album sounded huge at the time.



Squished the remnants of crap like Def Leppard.

Futures
Contributing Reviewer
April 26th 2025


17675 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

said this before but the drum pop on this just gets me goin

DoofDoof
April 26th 2025


17653 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

It plays to the Ulrich strengths

AlexKzillion
Emeritus
May 14th 2025


19106 Comments


man feel like i've really underrated this one over the years. just sounds immaculate

kinda wish they made more songs akin to hoiler, never, wolf, struggle... not only in style but in length. heavy bite sized bangers. especially after load/reload they almost never wrote a song below 5 minutes ever again, and the few times they did (hardwired, lux aeterna, too far gone) they were full on thrash songs.

TheSonomaDude
May 14th 2025


10162 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off

Yeah the closest theyve gotten to that is “crown of barbed wire” which is like 5 minutes and chunky. A very rare combo nowadays

bigweinerdon
February 3rd 2026


3029 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

average for this should be at least a 4

Galbador
February 3rd 2026


859 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

This was the best thing ever when I was 12. Shaped my tastes for sure. Started the quest for the heaviest riff and all. Still I don't ever want to hear this again. This has been played into oblivion for me. A respectable 3,5 will do.

DoofDoof
February 3rd 2026


17653 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

I remember having this on cassette and sometimes being annoyed having to rewind it to Side A again as I generally preferred that side when I first got into this as a kid.

AlkemestRedux
February 3rd 2026


1379 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Yeah agreed. This was the first non-Christian CD I bought and from there I was off and running. Pretty much a straight line from Metallica - Metallica to Goatwhore lol

Goodolboy
February 3rd 2026


1624 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Possibly the best produced metal all of all time. Oh wait said this up top already lol

ShadowRemains
February 3rd 2026


28792 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

justice with this production would be epic

Goodolboy
February 3rd 2026


1624 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Forsure. Justice with the bass turned up like 10% would be epic lol

Titan
February 4th 2026


26800 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Justice’s production is part of its appeal. Low end car speakers are supposed to sound like they’re going to tear during the aggressive section of One. I do agree that the bass should be somewhat existent though.

DoofDoof
February 4th 2026


17653 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

I feel ‘Justice’ had the ingredients to become their undisputed best…and it doesn’t quite happen.



I’m aware there are souls out there who have it as their ‘disputed best’…

arthropod
February 4th 2026


2588 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

... such as me. 'Justice' is my most frequently replayed album by them, doesn't contain a single song I wouldn't like (as opposed to pretty much all of their discography except for 'Kill 'Em All'). I don't mind the production even, I actually have bigger problems with the bass on their previous albums because it's barely distinguishable from a regular guitar.



Now imma piss people off:

Justice > Load = Ride = Kill > Master > Black

Hawks
Staff Reviewer
February 4th 2026


119802 Comments

Album Rating: 4.1

LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Eakflanderyof
February 4th 2026


6714 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

I'm actually hanging with Zack (angelofdeath) and I was just telling him about that ridiculous ranking lmao



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