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Summary: The best Metallica ever!
Review: This one seriously kicks...! They are at their musical best at this point (in my opinion). Although they aren't as fast as the first three albums, being fast and heavy is not a synonym for musically good. The almost 10-minute title track is never boring and is one of my favorite Metallica songs of all time. Longer songs are better! Also there is One, an awesome song about a soldier.
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Summary: The best Metallica CD EVER!!!
Review: I still listen to this CD today. I can listen to this album over and over and not get sick of it. By far a masterpiece out of any Metallica album ever to come out!!!! This album is like a F6(over 300mph) tornado going through a trailer park. There is nothing left when the album is done!
The new album is absolutly terrible! Try not being like Korn and come out with something more original like ...And Justice For All. Possibly though I don't think they will ever top this album!
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Summary: Rage Before The Machine!
Review: After an extended layoff period and a classic 'covers' ep, Metallica returned with a vengeance on AND JUSTICE FOR ALL. All the anger and sadness they held in on the death of bassist Cliff Burton was unleashed on the record buying public. The album is full of seething vocals and complex chord and tempo changes, with melody at its centre. Lars Ulrich (drummer) and Kirk Hammet (lead guitar) have never played better. Unfortunately for new boy bassist Jason Newsted, the house producer Fleming Rasmussen buries his contributions way into the mix, so it sometimes sounds like he's absent. However, this complaint aside, if you wish to hear some truly angry heavy metal way before 'Rage Against The Machine' raised its collective voice in protest, check out the true rage and beauty of this release.BLACKENED - Starting, as the two previous Metallica albums on a deceptively soft note, this anti -war track suddenly roars to life with a snarl at it's heart, courtesy of James Hetfield. Jason Newsted's bass sounds like a buzz saw as Hetfield's spits out horror filled images: "Fire! To begin whipping dance of the dead". The abrupt change of pace in the track's middle only goes to prove what an impressive drummer Lars Ulrich can be. Kirk Hammet's lead solo incredibly shows an improvement since the 'Master of Puppets' album. An intelligent update of the 'Ride the Lightning' leadoff track, 'Fight Fire With Fire'. AND JUSTICE FOR ALL - Another soft build-up into a shout of protest. This time the target's the buying off of justice and the corruption of the system. The chorus is a total damnation of the unfairness of it all. Lars pounds every part of his kit in a display of virtuosity that only some metal drummers can manage. This track may be around 9 minutes in length, but I guarantee you'll be transfixed for that amount of time. "Hammer of justice crushes you, overpower . . ." Indeed. EYE OF THE BEHOLDER - A strident track decrying the erosion of freedom and rights.Again, the chorus grabs you by the throat and won't let go." Freedom . . . with their exception!" The beat on the track is very militaristic. ONE - The first Metallica song with an accompanying video. This has got to be my favourite Metallica song of all time. The tale of a soldier who has stepped on a land mine and now is an armless, legless, and blind vegetable. You can almost hear the desperation, the pain and the fury of being hooked up to a life support machine in Hetfield's vocal performance. The track goes from heavy ballad to out- and-out thrash with a deft flick of the wrist. Kirk's searing lead break and Ulrich's machine gun drumming compliment the tune perfectly. SHORTEST STRAW - Powerhouse, fast paced monster about paranoia, ostracism, being the victim of witchhunts and blacklisting, and mental pressure. The one thing that's a certainty on Metallica albums, are catchy choruses and 'Justice . . .' has plenty of those. HARVESTER OF SORROW - A lumbering evil tune about child abuse and how a victim can repeat what has happened to them on the next generation. The rhythm section sounds like an 'Imperial Walker' crushing all under foot. I especially like the 'answer vocal' on the chorus. FRAYED EDGE OF SANITY - Beginning with a musical in-joke (the band plays 'The Guards' March' from 'The Wizard Of Oz') then revving up for a tale of paranoia sliding into mental illness. This is pure head banging material with a literate edge. TO LIVE IS TO DIE - A fitting epitaph to supreme bassist Cliff Burton (the lyrics are his), the band puts all they have into this mournful, melodic cruncher of an instrumental that ranks up there with 'Pulling Teeth', 'Orion' and 'The Call Of Ktutlu'. May he always be sadly missed. DYER'S EVE - A thrash masterpiece to end the album. This is a scream of rage towards parents who dictate and censor without supplying love or encouragement. Hetfield's voice spews venom and the track's instrumentation is stabbing, relentless. One final roared, "Go!" and the album is finished; leaving you emotionally spent. What a musical ride.
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Summary: Great Album
Review: One Of there best and still a much needed album of any Metallica Fan!!
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Summary: Metallica's Masterpiece
Review: This is where Metallica reached there peak. This is an amazing album. The songwriting on this album is amazing. This album really shows how talented the guys in Metallica are. There is only one flaw in this album and that is the production. Everything else is perfect. Form Blacked to Dyers Eve this album is a non-stop assault of incredible riffs, solos, pounding double-bass drums and epic intros/instrumentals. Every song on here is perfect with none sounding repetitive. This is for sure Metallica's most complete album and there crowning achivement. This unfortunately IMO would be there last great album. This album truly shows how great metal can be. I will never get tired of this album, it is perfect in every way, thank you Metallica for this wondeful piece of music. For all metal fans this album is a must, Buy it.
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Summary: AMAZING ALBUM
Review: Amazing Album second of theres only too Ride The Lightning Massivly Underated unfortantly , Blackened is no doubt the best track on this album , and yes the production is horrible but doesnt ruin it all too much .
so buy this album and other metallica albums and anything from Radiohead
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Summary: Metallica's most elaborate, experimental, & angry work.
Review: Despite the poor production on And Justice for All, this stands out as Metallica's most complex album, and my personal favorite from the band. Most of the songs on And Justice for All are extremely long, but thats certainly not a bad thing when when you're dealing with Metallica. All the songs go through elaborate stages, changing up the tempo & mood constantly. It's very impressive just to sit back & listen to. Whether they're playing speed-metal, pounding you with some slow steady riffs, throwing in some acoustic parts, or going off on a classic, thrashy guitar solo, its all done very well on And Justice for All. This album has an epic vibe to it, and it has two of the best songs ever written by the band. There's "One" or course, widely considered to be the bands best song, and then there's "To Live is to Die", an emotional instrumental tribute to Cliff Burton. That song is simply breathtaking. The rest of the album is outstanding as well. James's lyrics on this album are the most meaningful he's ever written, shouting out against various injustices concerning the government. This is also the band's most passionate & angry album as well, as they vent from pain & sorrow of losing their close friend & bass player Cliff Burton. While Master of Puppets overall may be considered Metallica's best album, personally I like And Justice for All more because of its raw & angry sound. Its much less polished than Master of Puppets & plus its has "One" & "To Live is to Die" which are my two favorite Metallica songs. So you can complain about the poor production & nearly inaudible bass on And Justice for All, but Metallica fans cannot deny that the actual music on the album is among the band's most experimental, progressive, & best work.
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Summary: Metallica's most techinicaly sound album.
Review: After Cliff Burton's death, many worried that there would be no more Metallica, and even if there were, it would not be quite as good. Well, when they hired Flotsam Jetsam bassist Jason Newsted and went to work on what would become a true masterpiece of metal, all worries were put to rest. This is by far the last of the adventurous and ingenious albums from the "four horsemen" (if you don't count the recently released ST. ANGER, which returns to the all-intense style of KILL EM ALL). While it may have been the first step towards commercialization, with the video of "One" and all, it is still far from the ...mainstream metal like Def Lepard and Poison. The album starts off with "Blackened," a story of a desolate planet and opst apocalyptic subjects. "Blackened" contains one of the 5 essential Metallica solos, and is a landmark in bass heavy metal. Next is the ever changing onslaught of song structure and riffs called "and Justice For All." Next is "Eye of the Beholder" which is somewhat about and inspired by Jello Biaffra. Obviously, the album's masterpiece is "One." A disturbing and emotional narration of a dismembered soldier's war experience and outlooks from his bed, "One" not only strikes but ambushes a nerve that "Disposable Heroes" only touched. The song slowly builds from a pretty, simply chorded ballad into a hellish head banger without the lister even noticing, so engulfed with this emotion. The song contains 3 (yeah, 3) of Metallica's essential solos. Dyer's Eve is an amusingly angry story of over nurished children and the like. Behing MASTER OF PUPPETS, ...AND JUSTICE FOR ALL! is one of the greatest metal albums ever created and deserves way more sales than that overblown ...called METALLICA (the "Black Album.")
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Summary: FAIR ALBUM
Review: ...AND JUSTICE FOR ALL is only a fair album i would say. Best tracks are BLACKENED, ... AND JUSTICE FOR ALL & the best track on the album ONE. The rest of the album suffers from a lack of great tracks & gets a little tedious. Some enjoyable moments but it falls away after that.
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Summary: Contrary to popular belief...
Review: ...this is actually the album when Metallica originally jumped the shark. I honestly like ALL of Metallica's material to one degree or another, but every band reaches their true peak at some point and is never able to climb that high ever again. AJFO marks the band after their peak. [...] Metal bands were discovering Discharge. So, it was around this time that bands like DRI and COC began discreetly introducing metal into my system without me even realizing it. Next thing I knew it was 1986 and I was listening to Slayer every day. From there it was an easy task for a kid at school to get me hooked on Metallica by loaning me a tape of the then brand new Master of Puppets. To this day, that's my favorite Metallica album, with Ride the Lightning coming in a close second. And I also have to credit Metallica with being the first real influence that caused me to polish my guitar playing, trying to glean some skill instead of just pounding out simple three chord punk riffs all day. I don't hate this album. I do have issues with the production. I can't stand the sterile, plastic drum sound. I don't like the general high end tinny bias to the general mix throughout. I don't like the complete absence of bass. I don't like the artifical, almost digital guitar sounds. What I do like is the song writing. These are great songs. It's just a shame they weren't recorded in way that would really bring them to life, as opposed to the cold and clinical sound they went with. The black album was the real disappointment for me. I really didn't care for the change in direction the writing took. I pretty much gave up on Metallica at that point, and they entered my growing pantheon of "bands I used to like, when I was a kid." I suppose like I felt like I'd grown up and left them behind. But surprise!: I -LOVED- Loaded. Not as much as Puppets or Lightning, but it definitely redeemed them to me after the black album. It turned out that Metallica had grown up too. Reloaded was... well, it was OK. Anyway, I'm listening to this and all of my other Metallica records because I'm anxious for the new album. From the samples I've heard, it sounds like they're putting out the hardcore album the always meant to do but never did. Good for them! ...
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