Album Rating: 3.5

justice is lost

justice is raped

justice is gone

Album Rating: 3.0

how do the first 4 of the three Ms compare



remission > kill em all > kimb

peace sells > leviathan > rtl

blood mountain > sfsgsw > mop this one is a wash really theyre like equal

rip > cts > ajfa

Album Rating: 3.5

puppets is the best of those three by a country mile

Album Rating: 3.0

the only one that has a really notable gap is the 4th record with rip being about 10 billion light years ahead of cts and ajfa

Album Rating: 5.0

Frayed Ends of Sanity might be my straight up favorite tallica song and I’ll never forgive these old pieces of shit for closing with Enter Sandman and then doing literal cock and ball torture by playing the fucking intro riff for my favorite song and then saying goodnight.



Fuck them for that, fuck them hard

Album Rating: 3.0

how the farts is that ur fave tally bro theres shit like ktulu and 4 chodesmen PHANtom lord motorbreath metal militia thing that hsoud not b n shit

Album Rating: 5.0

All of those songs suck except Ktulu babe

Album Rating: 5.0

at some point in time when I first heard this album and I got to frayed I realized this to me was peak metal licka

Album Rating: 3.0

what the frick did u just say abt phantom lord

Album Rating: 5.0

you're a phantom lord

Album Rating: 5.0

You're a phantom lord harry

Album Rating: 5.0

Across the board it’s James’ finest album. In my head, and going off of the bass boosted remaster and obv the Justice for Jason bootleg, the dude did what he could. He’s a great bassist but god, just fucking imagine what this record sounds like with Cliff.



I don’t know every piece of Metallica lore, maybe somebody more intimately familiar with the band’s history can tell me some bullshit like “this album would not exist if Cliff had lived” or something, I’m just imagining more complex parts and maybe even further extended instrumental passages when you have a literal bass prodigy instead of Jason… who, again, is a great fuckin bassist. I’ll put it this way, he’s my second favorite bassist of the classic thrash bands. James, Lars, and Kirk really don’t know how fucking lucky they were to have such good players. But I guess when you’re on top of the world like they were, you just get the best of the best. Robert is also fucking great but his best moments aren’t even on Metallica albums



What are the cliff (hah) notes on how Jason wound up in the band anyways? I know I can look it up but fuck that, it’s getting late and I want my sputnik story time

Album Rating: 5.0

Jammed this to confirm it is a 5 and yep, it is



More at 11

Album Rating: 5.0

Sir, a second 5 has hit the album.

Album Rating: 5.0

Alert the pentagon, secure the football



We're going nuclear folks

Album Rating: 5.0

What’s another 5?



Operation: Mindcrime. I think 1988 might’ve actually been the best year for metal ever, certainly mainstream metal. What maiden album came out that year?

Album Rating: 5.0

Fuck and South of Heaven dropped that year too, def my favorite fkn slayer album



Leprosy too, gosh darnit what a time to be alive.

Album Rating: 5.0

"maybe somebody more intimately familiar with the band’s history can tell me some bullshit like “this album would not exist if Cliff had lived” or something"



hate when people start getting existential about shit that will never happen, like I get the sentiment but I guess I'm kind of a nihilist

Album Rating: 4.5

nah it's an interesting hypothetical. gets your mind thinking. but anyway it's a common misconception that cliff would've kept them on a metal path. if anything he was the one in the band least inspired by metal. he listened to a lot of pop and other non-metal genres mainly. he would've been completely fine with load/reload and maybe would've pushed to experiment more and probably stray even further from metal.

Album Rating: 5.0

Yeah I’m not usually either Tayne, but if we’re being honest with ourselves, that is probably the single most interesting “what if?” in the history of metal.



I refuse to believe he would’ve allowed them to come out with some of the trash we see on Load/Reload, so I choose to believe that Brat Summer was originally scheduled for ‘88 until Cliff’s untimely demise.