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Ride the Lightning is where Metallica truly became legends. While their debut was a pure, unpolished thrash attack, this album took that raw aggression and evolved it into something massively ambitious and atmospheric. The leap Metallica took in just one year from their debut still blows my mind. You get these incredibly heavy, complex riffs, but then they hit you with the haunting acoustic intro of Fade to Black, completely shattering the rules of what thrash metal could be.

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I really enjoyed listening to this one, even though it’s definitely not their absolute best. You can just feel the chaotic history behind it, they recorded the whole thing in a couple of weeks, surviving off cheap beer while Lars apparently recorded drums in a room he swore was haunted. It’s got this unpolished, feral garage-band energy that you just don't get on their later, highly polished masterpieces like Master of Puppets. They were just a bunch of angry kids who had ... read more

Before they were filling stadiums, Avenged Sevenfold was just a bunch of unhinged teenagers making a glorious racket in a Huntington Beach garage. Listening to their 2001 debut, Sounding the Seventh Trumpet, feels like looking at a slightly embarrassing but deeply endearing high school yearbook photo. M. Shadows is absolutely shredding his vocal cords, and the late great The Rev drives the whole beautiful mess forward with frantic, jazz-infused drum fills that he famously tracked in just one ... read more

Ignore the fact that I'm almost 2 years late btw.

This album really made me question if music-making equipment should be allowed to be used by anyone. Prequel was pretty decent. I really liked the epic and dramatic nature of the song. Watch The World Burn grew on me which honestly surprised me because i didn't like the song that much when it came out. And Trigger Warning absolutely shocked me, it kind of sounds like a dad rock song which is kind of my weakness. Apart from sounding ... read more