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Metallicas self titled album is largely an improvement on the flaws mentioned in And Justice For All. The Black Album innovated their sound to lean into a heavier but more radio friendly sound on tracks like Enter Sandman and Sad But True, but the band collectively also added emotion into their music which has seldom been done since Fade to Black. Songs like Nothing Else Matters and The Unforgiven are very fresh takes on their sound and convey a great deal emotion which I love, this was ... read more

And Justice For All is definitely a step down from the rest of Metallicas catalogue up until this point for two main reasons: Zero innovation and subpar mixing. This is Metallicas fourth album now and yet theyre trying to sound the exact same as how they sounded on Master of Puppets and Ride The Lightning, sure those are both benchmark albums but you should take what worked and change it up instead of just rehashing the exact same music. Every song on this album except Blackened and One sound ... read more

As a debut album meant to impress people it certainly succeeds, (to my knowledge) the riffs and instrumentation were groundbreaking for the time and it put Metallicas name on the map, allowing them to release two of the best albums of that decade. However there are two main issues with the album that arent big ones but should be mentioned anyway, and those are the mixing and Hetfields confidence in his vocals. Occasionally the mixing feels it leans too heavily into the instruments and it drowns ... read more

Master of Puppets takes what Ride the Lightning did and made it better with zero drawbacks, and for that it is the formula for what thrash metal should be in my opinion, every thrash metal artist should draw inspiration from this album. There is nothing I can say about this album other than that it is quite possibly the greatest metal album to ever grace this planet Earth; there are ZERO flaws and everything you could ask for in a thrash album is here. On another note, this album is what first ... read more