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Metallica |
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Kill 'Em All |
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Line up:
James Hetfield - Vocals, Guitars
Kirk Hammett - Guitars
Cliff Burton - Bass Guitars
Lars Ulrich - Drums |
Track Listing:
Hit the Lights
Four Horsemen
Motorbreath
Jump in the Fire
(Anesthesia) Pulling Teeth
Whiplash
Phantom Lord
No Remorse
Seek and Destroy
Metal Militia |
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This is Metallica's first release and it is a killer. It has an old school punk rock feel into it and the music is some of the best that Metallica ever wrote. Four Horsemen is a great song with tons of lead guitar and great riffs trompling down upon your eardrums. Cliff Burton shows his talent in the bass solo track, (Anesthesia) Pulling Teeth. He does a great job shredding the bass apart, and he is playing it through a bass overdrive pedal. Seek and Destroy is a great opus that gets you in the mood to go to war and it leads right into the heavy metal anthem, Metal Militia. It is a fast and powering call-to-arms go out and win over metalheads, fantastic song. This is a great album with fabulous music, but the production lacks compared to the rest of their albums, however, the music ranks up there with Master of Puppets. Grade: A- |
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Ride the Lightning |
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Line up:
James Hetfield - Vocals, Guitars
Kirk Hammett - Guitars
Cliff Burton - Bass Guitars
Lars Ulrich - Drums |
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Track Listing:
Fight Fire with Fire
Ride the Lightning
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Fade to Black
Trapped Under Ice
Escape
Creeping Death
Call of the Ktulu |
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This is Metallica's second album featuring more music that will execute your ear drums. Fight Fire with Fire opens up the album and is about the cold war how both the U.S. and U.S.S.R. are ready to fight each other with nuclear weapons, hence the song title. The title track, Ride the Lightning, is a great electrifying attack of guitars and the lyrics are very well written. Opening up with bells, the following track is a metal classic that almost anyone will recognize as For Whom the Bell Tolls. Fade to Black is a beautiful track, and probably my favorite on the entire album and the instrumental, Call of the Ktulu, is another outstanding Metallica classic which ends the album. Ride the Lightning features better production than its predecessor, Kill 'Em All, and is an equal album musically. Grade: A- |
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Master of Puppets |
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Track Listing:
Battery
Master of Puppets
The Thing That Should Not Be
Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
Disposable Heroes
Leper Messiah
Orion [Instrumental]
Damage, Inc. |
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Line up:
James Hetfield - Vocals, Guitars
Kirk Hammett - Guitars
Cliff Burton - Bass Guitars
Lars Ulrich - Drums |
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This right here is one of the best thrash albums ever made and is my third favorite personally (after Slayer's Reign in Blood and Megadeth's Rust in Peace). The album opens up with Spanish style guitar playing on Battery before going into the title track, Master of Puppets. A great track with one of the most recognizable riffs in metal. Welcome Home (Sanitarium) starts of slowly with some great singing by Hetfield before becoming a heavy, yet still slow opus. Disposable Heroes and Leper Messiah are 100% heavy metal. This album is great overall all, be it in the music, production, everything. Great work done on it. Grade: A |
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...And Justice for All |
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Line up:
James Hetfield - Vocals, Guitars
Kirk Hammett - Guitars
Jason Newsted - Bass Guitars
Lars Ulrich - Drums |
Track Listing:
Blackened
...And Justice For All
Eye of the Beholder
One
The Shortest Straw
Harvester of Sorrow
The Frayed Ends of Sanity
To Live is to Die
Dyers Eve |
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Line up:
James Hetfield - Vocals, Guitars
Kirk Hammett - Guitars
Jason Newsted - Bass Guitar
Lars Ulrich - Drums |
Track Listing:
Enter Sandman
Sad but True
Holier Than Thou
The Unforgiven
Wherever I May Roam
Don't Tread on Me
Through the Never
Nothing Else Matters
Of Wolf and Man
The God That Failed
My Friend of Misery
The Struggle Within |
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By the time Metallica had released their self-titled album, they were basically a household name. This album, commonly called the Black Album is the most popular among the Metallica albums. This release started them verging off the thrash road and onto the road of more radio friendly music and this aided sales and popularity, though many diehard fans started to fade away. The album opens up with one of the most popular of metal songs, Enter Sandman. Horns open up The Unforgiven, which give way to clean guitar and the song forms into a slow, fist-pumping ballad. Nothing Else Matters is a pretty ballad where James Hetfield shows the beauty in his voice and following that up is another popular metal song Of Wolf and Man. This is a very good album overall, but it foreshadowed the direction that Metallica was going, a direction of softening up musically to increase sales. Grade: B |
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Load |
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Line up:
James Hetfield - Vocals, Guitars
Kirk Hammett - Guitars
Jason Newsted - Bass Guitars
Lars Ulrich - Drums |
Track Listing:
Ain't My Bitch
2x4
The House Jack Built
Until it Sleeps
King Nothing
Hero of the Day
Bleeding Me
Cure
Poor Twisted Me
Wasting My Hate
Mama Said
Thorn Within
Ronnie
The Outlaw Torn |
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Reload |
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Line up:
James Hetfield - Vocals, Guitars
Kirk Hammett - Guitars
Jason Newsted - Bass Guitars
Lars Ulrich - Drums |
Track Listing:
Fuel
The Memory Remains
Devil's Dance
The Unforgiven II
Better Than You
Slither
Carpe Diem Baby
Bad Seed
Where the Wild Things Are
Prince Charming
Low Man's Lyric
Attitude
Fixxxer |
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Garage Inc. |
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Line up:
James Hetfield - Vocals, Guitars
Kirk Hammett - Guitars
Cliff Burton - Bass Guitars
Jason Newsted - Bass Guitars
Lars Ulrich - Drums |
Track Listing:
Disc 1
Free Speech for the Dumb
It's Electric
Sabbra Cadabra
Turn the Page
Die, Die My Darling
Loverman
Mercyful Fate
Astronomy
Whiskey in the Jar
Tuesday's Gone
The More I See
Disc 2
Helpless
The Small Hours
The Wait
Crash Course in Brain Surgery
Last Caress/Green Hell
Am I Evil?
Blitzkrieg
Breadfan
The Prince
Stone Cold Crazy
So What
Killing Time
Overkill
Damage Case
Stone Dead Forever
Too Late Too Late |
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S&M |
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Line up:
James Hetfield - Vocals, Guitars
Kirk Hammett - Guitars
Jason Newsted - Bass Guitars
Lars Ulrich - Drums |
Track Listing:
Disc 1
The Ecstacy of Gold
The Call of the Ktulu
Master of Puppets
Of Wolf and Man
The Thing That Should Not Be
Fuel
The Memory Remains
No Leaf Clover
Hero of the Day
Devil's Dance
Bleeding Me
Disc 2
Nothing Else Matters
Until it Sleeps
For Whom the Bell Tolls
- Human
Wherever I May Roam
Outlaw Torn
Sad but True
One
Enter Sandman
Battery |
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