Use the Man is awesome

Album Rating: 4.0

Use the Man is awesome [2]

Album Rating: 3.5

god damn the struggle within sucks ass

Album Rating: 3.5

bro its an embarrassment

they shoulda just stuck to the radio rockers

Album Rating: 3.5

The Struggle Within has always been one of my favorites on here, the worst are Don't Tread on Me, The God That Failed, and My Friend of Misery (despite the cool bassline)

Album Rating: 3.5

its like them trying to be thrash but not, like james wanted to thrash out but lars was like neck so met him half way and it just sounds like shite

similar to holier than thou cept that one has a kinda cool riff

Album Rating: 3.5

Most of the riffs overall are pretty generic but fun, especially on The Struggle Within, but the drumming certainly doesn't help.

Album Rating: 4.0

I'm no metal authority but I always felt like this paled in comparison to almost everything else they did, with the exception of Load & Reload, and St. Anger.

Album Rating: 3.5

how its just chug on E and a slide, chorus two boring power chords

pre chorus harmonised slide thing is the only riff that stands out and even then its almost escape levels of cheese

def the laziest song on the album

Album Rating: 3.5

dude sowing everyone who isnt a retard thinks that

Album Rating: 4.5

agreed with KILL, this album is best when selling out though Holier Than Thou is m/

Album Rating: 3.5

Sowing is indeed speaking truth, and yes Kill that's exactly my point about The Struggle Within: it's simple and dumb and repetitive like most of the riffing on the whole album, at least compared to the songs on MOP and Justice but it's fun

Album Rating: 4.0

Well EXCUSE ME kill some of us are just indie plebs who know like 1% of what there is to know about Metallica ; )

Album Rating: 3.5

cant deny how good the unforgiven is tho, one of kirks best solos for sure. it's almost emotive!

Album Rating: 3.5

Disposable Heroes and The Call of Ktulu make this look pretty forgettable and harmless tbh

Album Rating: 4.5

it's got the grooviest groove yeah

Album Rating: 3.5

Gosh Sowing I thought you had a metal phase

Album Rating: 3.5

and sowing check some megadeth

Album Rating: 3.5

I think a lot of albums suffer from being 'CD length' in terms of getting respect both here on this site and in a wider context. Classic rock albums were usually 6-8 songs long on two sides of vinyl - if you shrink this album to those constraints it's pretty tidy. Enter/Sad/Holier/Unforgiven followed by Wherever/Never/Nothing/Wolf, something like that is the equal of a lot of Sabbath and Zeppelin albums considered classics.

So many Sabbath albums are 4 or 5 'proper' songs, an average instrumental, a usually horrific ballad or experimental track, and another fodder song. Even Zeppellin II has filler on it but gets 5 star rating from most people. I understand albums were released quicker so were shorter but I do think albums since the CD get slaughtered for having filler but just as many if not more strong tracks.

Album Rating: 4.5

Right, there's no perfect method of rating an album. You can go ahead and rate it based on the # of good songs. I try to look at both the number of songs I think are fantastic and the album as a whole as if I had to listen to the whole thing. If you don't, both extremes will be unequally weighted. Decent double and triple albums will still end up having more good songs than a flawless 70s classic running at 40 minutes, so it doesn't help to stick with either extreme.



I'm sure most people just disagree on the quality of the songs. Like if you're saying Planet Caravan and Rat Salad are bad then I reply HECK NAH BRAH. But yeah, if Metallica cut the filler on this album it would probably be more respected.