sad but true and the unforgiven are great 4.5/5

First off, i like u nrvna85. We have similar taste in metallica. I find black to b my favorite album. Dont get me wrong, i love all of metallica (esspecially MoP and reload), i just heard this first and i guess it stuck. Also, i also thought St. Anger was fairly bad at first, but after i listened to it for a while, it kind of grew on me. Now i find it to b pretty good. Finally, i dont c how someone can get tired of enter sandman. Ive been listenin to it everyday for the past 5 months and it still like my fav. metallica song.

dude, ride the lightning is by far, the best metallica album ever. i swear to god, you have to be stupid not to own it. black album was o.k., but it was the transition into oad, and reload, which are good, but just arent metallica. i dunno....
you decide............
FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE!

^^agreed

I see people say that Re-Load was a great Metallica album. That's pure blasphemy. Anyone who's heard other albums than Re-Load would agree with me that those albums are pure crap.

On the main subject, I think that the self-titled was the last great work Metallica did. Everything else since then (Excluding S&M) has been utter crap.

Agrotath,

Props to you on your review mate. I wouldn't call it so much as a review, I found it more so of an opinion, but nevertheless, I agree with all that you very much said. I won't nit pick or anything, but all the comments you made on each song and your overall analysis of the album shed some light to some of the somewhat "newbie" fans to Metallica who seem to think that Enter Sandman is the best Metallica song whereas they don't know that there are five albums preceeding it. Metallica isn't their best album (my personal favourites are Master followed closely by Lightning,) but it opens up another era in their development and mastery of music. Good review champ, I think you'll find that many in depth fans of Tallica will think very much the same as you...

"Metallica" is definatley one of their best, but not the best in my opinion. This album draws away from the hard fast solos of earlier albums such as "Master of Puppets" and "Kill 'em All", but it sticks to heavy thick lead riffs.

I agree that the black album is F**king awesome but i say the best was Master of Puppets. The song "Sanitarium" is one of the best they"ve ever done.

yea first and foremost load is definately not there best cd. to me their best cd was by far ride the lightning and master of puppets is right next 2 it. i like many songs from each album but after and justice for all is when i dont like as many songs on the cd. there earlier stuff still and always will be the best

Good balanced review... The Black Album is my 3rd favorite album, next to Master of Puppets and Ride The Lightning... Load and Reload just suck... bad bad stuff there, but that's just my opinion

Black album IS the best. At first, it's kind of difficult to get into cuz it's slower than their older stuff, but it has much more substance. And "Sad But True" is the heaviest, kick *** riff EVER! I play it every day and never get tired of it. NEM is by far the best 'tallica track. It is just a masterpiece. No other metallica album even COMPARES to black in substance. Some are faster (RTL, MOP, KEA), some are trashier (...AJFA), and some just plain suck(Load, Reload, St. Anger). But this is 'tallica at its peak. :smash:

This album is the best metallica, and one of the best metal albums, and one of the best albums of the 90s.

Except for "the stuggle within" and "sad but true" i like all the songs on this album. None of the songs are classics but they're decent

[QUOTE=sMURFJEW]Except for "the stuggle within" and "sad but true" i like all the songs on this album. None of the songs are classics but they're decent[/QUOTE]
Are you kidding? Sad But True is da shiznit! The best heavy 'Tallica riff ever.
Even Kid Rock covered (sampled) it for his "American Badass".

[QUOTE=nrvna85]:angry: your f*****g crazy dude. i don't know how you can even live with yourself after saying that the black album is overrated ,the songs sound the same ,and nothing else matters is boring. you should stop posting threads before you pollute someone elses mind with that crap.[/QUOTE]


eh...i agree with you, just mind that everyone is allowed an opinion. I personally think anyone who thinks Nothing Else Matters is boring, or Mama Said, or Bleeding Me, Orion, The Call of Ktulu, The Ecstasy of Gold...anyway, they need to pay more attention to the musical/artistic value of rock and metal, and less attention to a mere trifle like tempo and volume.

for that reason, Cliff Burton was a genius, having both the mad speed and heavy metallic feel to his music, but also making it as beautiful and complex as Mozart or Bach...hey, i would bet good money that he had perfect pitch, too...

ANYWAY, due to my opinion on Cliff, i reccomend any of the albums he was on, just for the instrumentals and Anesthesia...and the intro for Damage Inc...I can't seem to get that 'rush' that everyone talks about...normally...but i could for Damage Inc, because the intro cracked open my Mozart/Bach/classical music side, then infected...they are all beautiful songs.

Ok, i digressed...

IMO... its okay... I find the album increddibly boring in places (not including nothing else matters) but I dono.. its missing something that the others have.... 3/5

a good metallica album
enter sandman is one of my favorite metallica songs

[QUOTE=nrvna85]:thumb: I don't know if it ranks up there with nevermind but it is a kick a** album. maybe i'm just saying this because nirvana is my favorite band of all time. NIRVANA F*****G RULES.[/QUOTE]

Dude toataly agree Nirvana is by far the best band of all time.

PS. Metallica rocks too.

f[B]u[/B]ck you. nirvana are nowwhere as good as metallica. nirvana haven't even had a good solo. are a songs that's faster than 150bpm. so stfu

nirvana and metallica dont compare

5/5 this is one of the great albums of all time

the metal works is right the first five were killer and the rest suck

[QUOTE=SubtleDagger]Possibly the most overrated Metallica album. Most songs here not only sound alike but are very dull plodders. The hits deserved to be hits, however, though "Nothing Else Matters" is extremely boring. I'd give it a 3/5 for its value at the time.[/QUOTE]


dude you have lost it.... you say this album is overrated??? This is one of metallicas best albums, and one of the best metal albums of all time!!!!i think you need to listen again, just once, but clean the crap out of your ears first. If you cant appreciate this, your hopeless

[QUOTE=fountainguitar]dude you have lost it.... you say this album is overrated??? This is one of metallicas best albums, and one of the best metal albums of all time!!!!i think you need to listen again, just once, but clean the crap out of your ears first. If you cant appreciate this, your hopeless[/QUOTE]

hear hear

this is a good album, but it gets kind of boring after listening to it for a while. I have like 3 years or something with this album and I cant listen to ir for more than 15 minutes, i get bored really quick.

^^^ that's the same with every metallica cd

4/5
Its a great album, but I like some of their others better

[QUOTE=fountainguitar]dude you have lost it.... you say this album is overrated??? This is one of metallicas best albums, and one of the best metal albums of all time!!!!i think you need to listen again, just once, but clean the crap out of your ears first. If you cant appreciate this, your hopeless[/QUOTE]
If you think this is anywhere near Metallica's best, you've lost it. Just the fact that there isn't a fast song here is enough to keep it from that. Go listen to [i]Ride The Lightning[/i] and [i]Master Of Puppets[/i]. Even [i]...And Justice For All[/i] was better than this one.

[QUOTE=manuscriptreplica] my name is poo and i think enter sandman is a cool song. everyone goes crazy when they hear it. but really, thats the only song i can stand from the CD. at least you can hear the **** bass on this album (a tiny bit). and nothing else matters - i dont care what anyone says, is one of the most boring songs ive heard. period. excellent solo, but i just kept waiting for it to speed up, and it didnt. oh well.

2.5/5


p.s.[/QUOTE]

you can't expect every song to give you an or*asm can you? i mean it's a good song for the tempo and enter sandman, the solo just dosn't fit the timing it's good but i dont think it fits as well as others do!

Bump [i]Master Of Puppets[/i] and I rape your mother.