I have to go with Ride the Lightning for now, though my favourite of theirs changes between their first three albums every now and then. My next favourite of theirs is And Justice for All, then my interest in everything afterwards by Metallica lowers to the point of rarely listening to anything post-AJfA. I guess the next tier would be Load/ReLoad, then TBA/Self Titled, then Death Magnetic, then my least favourite two albums by them being St. Anger and Lulu.
I chose Ride the Lightning because it had the rawness of their first, but was just generally better than KEA, with most of the Metallica songs I can still enjoy almost as much as when I first heard them.
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