Metallica Ride The Lightning
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Goodolboy
December 4th 2024


1478 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Look at smok's 5's lol. The one death album he has 5'd is a live album that has like 2-3 ratings lol. Bathory northland 2 none of their classics... Some deicide album again none of their classic ones and some venom album. And that's really it 5 rating wise outta the 8 thousand records he's rated. Still to this day idc what anyone says that's a troll rating account.... at least on some level.

deathschool
December 4th 2024


29488 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Smok is right and his 5s are better than yours

Goodolboy
December 4th 2024


1478 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

...........LMAO



I'm out

deathschool
December 4th 2024


29488 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

bi.

ToSmokMuzyki
December 4th 2024


15099 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5 | Sound Off

yea my 5s rule yw for pointing out the very best

ToSmokMuzyki
December 4th 2024


15099 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5 | Sound Off

>some venom album



what the actual ffffff

0GuyMan0
December 4th 2024


5652 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

I mean I'm almost 39 and have been listening to this since I was eight...bold claim to say you've listened to the most popular band more than anyone lol



> weaker filler track like escape. It also has their best song the title track master of puppets and their best instrumental Orion



all big debatable. I'll take Creeping Death, Fade to Black, For Whom the Bell tolls and ride the lightning over MoP any day of the week, as well as One, Battery and Disposable Heroes (and a fair few other, far more controversial, picks actually). I'll give you Orion I suppose, but Lightning has one right behind it.



Escape isn't bad, but is obviously not a god-level track like the rest here. That said, I'll never understand how people pretend that Leper Messiah and to some extent The Thing That Should Not Be aren't steps down from the badassery of the others. Leper is downright annoying and Thing is...pretty good but would I really give half a fuck if I never heard it again? Chorus is cool and James slays the vocals tho.

Futures
Contributing Reviewer
December 4th 2024


17285 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

whoa the thing that should not be is amazing. such a simple riff but so fucking heavy and that solo absolutely rips. way better than escape.

Goodolboy
December 4th 2024


1478 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

I get it. Some ppl here perfer the low fi type of production of this. Side A here is perfect but things kinda go down hill after that at least compared to side A. I'm not with you on leper Messiah and the thing that should not be those are great tracks and still better than the weaker tracks here imo. If you liked those more you might think a bit differently maybe. I'd take fade to black over welcome home sanitarium, and bell tolls/fade are both top 5 Metallica tracks for me. But that's really about it and that's where the debate kinda ends for me. Creeping death is great to of course. But Disposable heroes kills trapped under ice.... Orion>>, gimmie battery over fight fire,title track>> again probably their staple track the and the track more ppl then not would say is their best song in general. The production on that album is just a step up and again James vocals after this got better he still sounds fairly juvenile here similar to kill. Puppets you have their best thrash tracks like battery and disposable and and their best instrumental and it's just the more well balanced and better produced record. And yeah the thing that should not be and even leper Messiah are great slower tracks and just add bit more variety to puppets

evilford
December 4th 2024


71735 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Congratulations, or sorry that happened

Futures
Contributing Reviewer
December 4th 2024


17285 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

oh no ford you're gonna get him going again

Goodolboy
December 4th 2024


1478 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Still bent outta shape over defeated sanity I see lol. It'll never end that's when happens when you joke around with someone's favorite band on the internet I suppose

evilford
December 4th 2024


71735 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Lol I'm just messing with u man





Tbf i also prefer most things about mop

evilford
December 4th 2024


71735 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

But justice is my fav metallica

Goodolboy
December 4th 2024


1478 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

I'm with you justice is a masterpiece yeah one of my favorites as well. I also perfer it to this. Good pick that's probably the first metal album I ever heard tbh. You can't beat the guitar tone on that album

0GuyMan0
December 4th 2024


5652 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Don't get me wrong, Puppets fuckin' kills. It's splitting hairs at this level of badassery.



I generally prefer Justice to MoP too. Blackened is secretly like top 5 'tallica. One is a GOAT contender for all of metal. Can't say I agree about the guitar tone but it's certainly one of the more unique sounding records lol.

Futures
Contributing Reviewer
December 4th 2024


17285 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

blackened ain't a secret for sure top 10 metallica.



and seeing one live was a religious experience lol

evilford
December 5th 2024


71735 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

The first metal album i heard that wasnt like early 2000s nu-metal had to have been MoP. So I do have some nostalgia for it

TheAntichrist
December 5th 2024


4383 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

scoop the lightning

Futures
Contributing Reviewer
December 5th 2024


17285 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

maybe the first full metal album i ever heard. not a bad start lol



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