The Batlord

That is weak. You seriously can't hear the vast stylistic difference between "Enter Sandman" and "One"?! I think you need to change your name. The fact that they're both more melodic does not mean that their is any similarity. I'm pretty ignorant of musical theory and I'm not any kind of musician, so I can't sit down and explain chord structures and time signatures, but it's still obvious to a Philistine like me that the songwriting on The Black Album was much simpler, more accessible hard rock with big dumb riffs and catchy choruses made for the general public, and And Justice for All is complex, at times even brutal, thrash.

I would direct you to the Spice Girls thread.

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teamventure

this^ the batlord is dead on.. no offence to metal Connoisseur but that name doesn't fit. your posts show that you are not.

Janszoon

Eh. I can agree that maybe it's not as much of a departure as it's often made out to be but there are certainly some noticeable differences between the two albums. For one thing, the songs on the black album are substantially shorter and often slower than on AJFA. Plus the black album has two ballad-type tracks while AJFA has none ("One" may start of that way but it does eventually turn into a thrash song).

How so?

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Unknown Soldier

At least make an attempt to spell his name correctly

Metal Connoisseur

I was being sarcastic. Hence the "lol". Next time I just won't say anything and save your fingers the trouble.

Howard the Duck

I meant "Harvester of Sorrow"

it's basically the same rhythm and progression, just different keys

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teamventure

i fixed it just for you..

teamventure

i listened to the first tracks on the black album and ajfa today while at the record store, and i must say that it's not even the same friggen genre.. vastly different..
enter sandman sounded cheazy, and catchy, and well, lame, while blackened sounded like thrash with a faster tempo and faster drumming..

Howard the Duck

they're all pretty much the same kind of keys, chords, progression and "melody"

except maybe "Nothing Else Matters" is more melodic than the previous stuff

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teamventure

you can have music in the same key, chord progression, and melody, to be much different.. stylistically they aren't even the same genre. that's the bottom line.