I saw them live in December. Same old Metallica, in an excellent way.
I think St.Anger has a few great songs but then again I wasn't expecting another Master Of Puppets.
I think Load is a great, underrated album. Reload is a bit sucky but has some great songs.
My favourite Metallica album is likely Master Of Puppets or S&M.
Song: Master Of Puppets. Aint My ***** is a fav at the moment.
Lyric: I will have to think. James is quite a good lyricist.
-AC
I liked them I thought the black album was amazing although I remember well when Kill Them All Came Out, they were kind of refreshing like an US alternative to the UK, Aussie, German bands that "ruled" the heavy scene at that time, except they were faster.So we gave ejm a thumb up for exciting newcomer, Ride the Lightning underlined that feeling. I bought a copy of Master OF Puppets while I still lived in Arkansas and that album blew me away. Fun to play that music load in the car ,windows rolled down turning a lot of heads in CW county.
😄 😈 My fav song is Welcome Home (Sanitarium) and yeah Hetfield have some good lyrics.
Kind of lost them after the Black album though, they gotten to big and too commercialized for me
St Anger was about par for the course at the time it came out--which wasn't that good when you look at what par was. That Metallica could go so far downhill is almost like watching the Rolling Stones' demise; they had classic albums, but just hung in too long past their prime.
They tried to do the stripped down White Stripes sound (which I heard is what they were going for), but they didn't have the blues background that the WS were coming from (albeit the WS have done it badly). Metallica's type of music doesn't go well with the lo-fi apporach.
Agreed. I heard they were just trying to recreate the Ride The Lightning sound. I mean, I think Kill Em All and Ride The Lightning are great but I don't think it was really till Master Of Puppets that they started hitting their full potential. I think as time went on and James ditched his alcoholism, he kinda lost a bit of his spirit. I'm glad he's clean and all but it seems that he wrote his best stuff when he had problems, coz he had stuff to write about if you know what I mean.
Like M.O.P being about addiction to some extent. Then Frantic (which I do like alot) being about how the way you live can be the way you end up dying. So I think that the one thing that made them awesome and gave them inspiration is gone so they will never be AS good. Then again, that same inspiration would have split the band up if they carried on the way James was going. So I'm not sure that I would have liked that really. Who knows, maybe their next album will be better. I'm willing to put St.Anger down to rusty-ness if their next album is excellent.
-AC
i loved thier first 5 albums. but in 1995 they put out load which was okay but it sounded more rock then metal and after that reload which i was listenable too but when st anger came out i was shocked the album was so hyped that i bought a copy and i regret it.
i prefer megadeth on metallica..megadeths new album "the system has faild" is comming out soon..i downloaded it its AMAZING like all all of thier albums!
I don't have much faith in the next album being 'excellent'. And it must truly be excellent for Metallica to come back to their elite status. Like you said, they are by no means the same people that made their first albums.
What do they have to be angry about now? What are they rebelling against? Instead they are only going through the motions and making songs that 'sound hard' instead of FEELING hard. It's one of the problems with a metal band having widespread success for an extended period of time; you lose touch with your base (kind of like hip hop artists who rap about life on the streets; after five years of "Big Pimpin'" they are no longer the same person living on the streets.
"What do they have to be angry about now? What are they rebelling against? Instead they are only going through the motions and making songs that 'sound hard' instead of FEELING hard. It's one of the problems with a metal band having widespread success for an extended period of time; you lose touch with your base (kind of like hip hop artists who rap about life on the streets; after five years of "Big Pimpin'" they are no longer the same person living on the streets."
I agree. Then again, I don't think they should be written off because of St.Anger. I think their next album will be their last if it's not that good. I mean they had Kill Em All and Ride The Lightning which were very good but by no means amazing or astounding. Then Master of Puppets which is hailed by many as the greatest Metal/Thrash Metal album of all time. Then And Justice For All, which has some great songs but again, by no means amazing. The Black Album was very very very good. Then Load was a great, refreshing change which would have been better as a double album with Reload but never mind. Reload was listenable and then S&M which was amazing. Of course St.Anger was pretty poor other than the few good songs, I think it was like And Justice For All in comparison.
My point being, given their track record, it's not an UNBELIEVABLE stretch to say their next album could be amazing. It's just a bit more unlikely with the lack of certain motivations that drove them back in the day.
-AC