The Metallica appreciation thread!

[LastSunrise1981]

Look at the first four albums to start with.

Kill 'Em All
Ride The Lightening
Master of Puppets
..And Justice for All


Explore them however you want after listening to those first. And explore other 80's thrash. Testament, Megadeth, Anthrax, assorted Slayer.

Don't forget about Heathen and Forbidden as well. Those are two very underrated thrash bands in my opinion.

 

[Cunning Stunts]

ok so i am new to Metallica, can anyone reccomend me some good albums whether it be from Burton's, Newsted's, or Trujillo's era.

Look at the first four albums to start with.

Kill 'Em All
Ride The Lightening
Master of Puppets
..And Justice for All


Explore them however you want after listening to those first. And explore other 80's thrash. Testament, Megadeth, Anthrax, assorted Slayer.

That's pretty much it. To see what Metallica REALLY made their mark for, listen to those four albums first. After that, they begin to slip into Alternative Rock mode.

The best albums, in my opinion, are as follows:

1. Master of Puppets
2. Ride the Lightning
3. ...And Justice For All/Death Magnetic (tie )
4. Kill 'Em All
5. Metallica (more commonly referred to as "The Black Album")
6. S&M
7. Load
8. ReLoad (which is only really good for Fuel and The Memory Remains, and Devil's Dance is alright)
9. St. Anger, which really isn't even worth listening to.

Garage, Inc. is a bunch of covers, which is why I didn't really include it.

Some of the best songs to look out for are (in album order: Red= Kill Em All; Blue= Ride the Lightning; Orange= Master of Puppets; Green= ...And Justice For All; Black= Black Album; Dark Red= Load; Brown= ReLoad; White= Death Magnetic):

The Four Horsemen
Seek & Destroy
Anesthesia (Pulling Teeth) [more so if you're a bass/Cliff Burton fan)
Fight Fire With Fire [virtually a thrash anthem, VERY fast and heavy, which is predominantly why I added this song]
Ride the Lightning
For Whom The Bell Tolls
Fade to Black
Creeping Death
The Call of Ktulu [this whole album is great, but these 6 stand on a separate level from the last two songs, in my opinion]
The entire Master of Puppets album [it's widely recognized as "the definitive metal album]
Blackened
...And Justice For All
Harvester of Sorrow
One [their first music video, this song pretty much paved the way for their entry into mainstream with The Black Album]
Enter Sandman
Sad But True
The Unforgiven
Wherever I May Roam
King Nothing
Fuel
The Memory Remains
The End of the Line
All Nightmare Long
The Unforgiven III

*Anesthesia (Pulling Teeth), The Call of Ktulu, Orion, To Live Is to Die, and Suicide & Redemption are their four instrumentals. These are pretty damned good songs on their own, and are musts for any Metallica fan. a

 

[SsM]

Devil's dance is the best song on ReLoad... and it's the ONLY good song on it...

 

[TheAQU4M4N]

ok thanks guys, i'll check them out im also gunna get St. Anger and Deat Magnetic.

whats the story behind St. Anger why has that album got a lot of mixed reviews?

 

[Colossal Spoons]

Devil's dance is the best song on ReLoad... and it's the ONLY good song on it...

Whaaat?

Fuel
Attitude
Better Than You
Low Man's Lyric

All awesome, IMO

 

[CELTICPRED]

Don't forget about Heathen and Forbidden as well. Those are two very underrated thrash bands in my opinion.

Never heard of them, I shall youtube them later.

 

[LastSunrise1981]

Never heard of them, I shall youtube them later.

Just check out the last metal collection I posted for the Forbidden music.

 

[SsM]

Whaaat?

Fuel
Attitude
Better Than You
Low Man's Lyric

All awesome, IMO

I like Low Man's lyrics...


Attitude is OK....


Better than you is bleh.


Fuel.........

 

[CELTICPRED]

Waste My Hate, 2X4, and King Nothing were the only songs I ever felt were worth listening to off the load/reload albums.

 

[SsM]

Waste My Hate, 2X4, and King Nothing were the only songs I ever felt were worth listening to off the load/reload albums.

Waste my hate is horrible.


Until it sleeps, Bleeding me......



The outlaw torn is one the best Metallica song out of the 90s Tied with Dont tread on me.

 

[CELTICPRED]

Waste my hate is horrible.

Still considering these are songs that I find "ok", especially when looking at the surrounding products.

 

[SsM]

I see. I get what you are saying.


Load is an underrated album.. Reload on the other hand... I can't say I can listen to the entire album at one time..

I heard rumors they were supposed to release them both together and they were going to call it "****load"

 

[CELTICPRED]

they were going to call it "****load"

Oh the comedy.

 

[Colossal Spoons]

I like Low Man's lyrics...


Attitude is OK....


Better than you is bleh.


Fuel.........

Fuel is very overrated, I'll give you that. But I'll be damned if I don't rock my ass off in Guitar Hero

 

[Colossal Spoons]

As for the Load album, Ain't My B***h and King Nothing are really all you need

 

[CELTICPRED]

I still LOL at them being supportive of Avril covering Fuel at their icon thing.


**shakes head**

 

[SsM]

Fuel is very overrated, I'll give you that. But I'll be damned if I don't rock my ass off in Guitar Hero

Guitar hero Metallica is the first GH game I've bought. I love it.. It just makes my head hurt sometimes.

Yeah, The song is OK... I also think UF2 is OK... but just OK.

Hell.. I can't do any better :P Couldn't be anywhere close.

 

[SsM]

I still LOL at them being supportive of Avril covering Fuel at their icon thing.


**shakes head**

I can't remember what exactly James said after they heard the song ... but I was just


facepalm

 

[CELTICPRED]

OOOOOOH A CHICK SANG MAH VOCALS YEAH

OOOOOH YEAHAAA



Maybe something like that?

 

[SsM]

No.. He said something about how emotional it was to hear his song being sung by a female.. or something like that.. they said it was great..

I think they were lying...


I HOPE..... they they were lying.

 

[Colossal Spoons]

Guitar hero Metallica is the first GH game I've bought. I love it.. It just makes my head hurt sometimes.

Yeah, The song is OK... I also think UF2 is OK... but just OK.

Hell.. I can't do any better :P Couldn't be anywhere close.

Anybody who's on vocals for that game has the easiest job EVER. I don't envy the drummer though

 

[SsM]

You actually kinda have to know how to drum to be good at that crap..


It's a good tutorial for people wanting to learn to play.

 

[CELTICPRED]

I still find GH2 to be the pinnacle of that franchise.

 

[Colossal Spoons]

You actually kinda have to know how to drum to be good at that crap..


It's a good tutorial for people wanting to learn to play.

I'm gonna give the guitar a break this weekend and work on the dums and bass

 

[Cunning Stunts]

Fuel is overrated, but it was the closest thing to thrash on ReLoad. Fuel is much better on the S&M album, when they play it faster and harder. I probably should have put Devil's Dance in its place though.

King Nothing is by far the best song on both albums, though, and probably could have fit into The Black Album. I'd actually like to see some songs like that re-done to fit a more thrash, 80s style (longer, more complex, and heavier, although the song is pretty heavy on its own).

ok thanks guys, i'll check them out im also gunna get St. Anger and Deat Magnetic.

whats the story behind St. Anger why has that album got a lot of mixed reviews?

It was made when the band was going through their, for lack of a better phrase, "soul searching" phases of their lives. They cut out guitar solos, didn't edit the music, put quarters on their bass pedals (which made the drums sound like trash cans), and used Bob Rock as a bassist.

All kinds of fail.