What? I'm talking about their first few releases like Ride The Lightning and Master of Puppets. Death Magnetic was released in 2008 so I don't know why you're referring to it as old.

There really isn't anything after Death Magnetic, except an EP with unreleased tracks from that album.

I was kidding, teasing, and maybe joking... :wave:

I was suggesting that St. Anger, being older than Death Magnetic, might have been what you meant...in another dimension, like the Twilight Zone, or something. As in I was joking. Joking, you know, a simple witticism.


I supposed the little icon of the pink face sticking its tongue out in response to your quote in reply to another poster... Well, here's what I meant:


That was a little hoax, joke, I mean. Something to the contrary meant to be something not so seriously looked upon as being earnest.




Metallica - Metal Up Your Ass (Full Album) - YouTube

^My apologies. I wasn't being all too serious, just responding.

Hell yea! Ride the Lightning and Master tied for first.
That restores some of my faith in humanity...

My personal rankings

1. Ride The Lightning (9/10)
2. And Justice For All (8.5/10)
3. Metallica (8/10)
4. Master of Puppets (7.8/10)
5. Kill 'em All (7.5/10)
6. Load (6.8/10)
7. Death Magnetic (6.5/10)
8. ReLoad (6/10)
9. St. Anger (4.7/10)

People often bitch about me putting Black Album above Master of Puppets. I'm just trying to be completely honest about my levels of enjoyment. I feel MoP is a bit overrated. It has a few great songs but also a few boring ones. The three albums ranked above it are more consistent in their greatness.

Ride the Lightning, mostly because it has plenty of songs of which I enjoy fairly a lot.

In second would be Master of Puppets and lastly St. Anger, just because of the album title's song.

My apologies for being too cryptically humorous. :wavey:

Glad to see that Ride the Lightning is beating out Master of Puppets. Love Master... but I think Ride... is the better album.

Black all the way.

Kill 'Em All, all the way!

Ride the Lighting!:hphones:

Obey your master !!!!! :drummer:

Black Album or the bootleg "17 Years in the Making" triple comp.:)

Master of Puppets is the one that I liked the best. Although I will say that when Load and Reload came out I was thrilled.

That's what I was thinking.

I liked the musical direction of Load and Reload right away, where as MoP took me more time to get used to.

Only recently did I actually enjoy Things that Should not Be. Still dislike the first track though.

Overall though, I have no idea what album is my favorite.

The Black Album

Why is that?

Because I own a copy of that, and it was really hard to get. the songs on it are obviously amazing,

Do you own a copy of any other Metallica albums?

I do own digital copies but The Black Album is the only one I have in CD. Here we don't have huge record labels like Sony, EMI or Tips.

So you're saying you don't like Battery? Thats a great song on a great album. I can listen to that album on repeat and it still comes across as a perfectly constructed album of which every song is very well done.

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Greetings, new*** commenting. First post on banter. Thought this was a good thread to start on considering there has been nothing but Metallica on a local radio station lately. It has certainly given me time to feel nostalgic and personally review said band. Kill 'Em All was what originally "put the hook through my cheek" so to speak. "Whiplash" in particular was and is now to an extent still a favorite. Didn't care too much for Metallica from '84 to '86. "...And Justice for All" was a decent album considering lyrical improvement. Let me just say here that all bands are constantly improving to some degree in my opinion. "Black Album" was the last album I ever really cared for. Everything afterwards besides a few singles was tasteless. All in all "Black Album" takes it home. :rofl::band:

Ever since I saw Metallica open for Ozzy (master of puppets) on the Ultimate sin tour I have always thought Masters was the best album. Cant really stand anything after And Justice.

Kill Em All. So far I haven't heard a single thrash metal album like it, except for ''Killing is my business....and business is good''. I prefer both those albums to any other metallica or megadeth album.

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.

I think that 1st Megadeth album was poorly made. Especially Mechanix; what a piece of bleep!

"Imagine you were at my station
And you brought your motor to me
Your a burner yeah a real motor car
Said you wanna get your order filled
Made me shiver when I put it in
Pumping just won't do ya know luckily for you

Whoever thought you'd be better
At turning a screw than me
I do it for my life
Made my drive shaft crank
Made my pistons bulge
Made my ball bearing melt from the heat
Oh yeah yeah

We were shifting hard when we took off
Put tonight all four on the floor
When we hit top end you know it feels to slow
Said you wanna get your order filled
Made me shiver when I put it in
Pumping just won't do ya know luckily for you

Whoever thought you'd be better
At turning a screw than me
I do it for my life
Made my drive shaft crank
Made my pistons bulge
Made my ball bearing melt from the heat
Oh yeah yeah
Oh!

I'm giving you my room service
And ya know it's more than enough
Oh one more time ya know I'm in love

Whoever thought you'd be better
At turning a screw than me
I do it for my life
Made my drive shaft crank
Made my pistons bulge
Made my ball bearing melt from the heat
Oh yeah yeah!

Imagine you were at my station
And you brought your motor to me
With all four on the floor I feel what's in store

Whoever thought you'd be better
At turning a screw than me
I do it for my life
Made my drive shaft crank
Made my pistons bulge
Made my ball bearing melt from the heat
Oh yeah yeah!
"

Even the lyrics stink!

****. That.

The first Megadeth album was fantastic. Never again was Dave that pissed off. Whether or not later albums were more polished Killing Is My Business was pure raw rage and energy. And I will forever love that album for the main riff to the title track. Aw man, and "Last Rights/Loved to Deth" is such a monster. Thrash perfected. Dave might be an egomaniac who all but says that he invented thrash, but with a song like that he may have the slightest point. ****, they even made a Nancy Sinatra song bad-****ing-ass. Killing Is My Business might even be my fav Megadeth album. Either that or Rust In Peace.

Edit: And what is this post doing in a Metallica thread?

I think Rust in Peace was bad, too.

To your edit: What is any other band name doing in any other thread not dedicated to said band? I think you might get more on this if you ask Dylstew, the poster in which I quoted...

What Megadeth album did you actually like?

Hard to get an album that has sold more than 30 million copies worldwide? But then again maybe it's all sold out.

Of course it was poorly made, it was grassroots metal, but that doesn't make it a bad album.

Def. Master.

Orion, MoP, The Thing that Should Not Be, Battery...

It's an easy choice.

The riffs and solos are much more to my liking than any of the songs from their previous albums.

MoP (the song) alone is better than all of their previous albums.




Sanitarium and Leper Messiah are gross; I dun have a problem with the rest of the album now though.

Like I said, We DO NOT have huge record labels that have the rights to sell albums of Int. Artists in Pakistan.

You're gross. "Leper Messiah" is heavier than a fat chick's grocery cart.

I dun like the riffs.

And compared to MoP, the song is def. weaker.

I've heard "Master of Puppets" on the radio so many times I'm kinda sorta over it. Great song but it just doesn't have the impact it once did.

See this is what I'm talking about. Too much heavy metal in music today.

Try something different, like listening to St. Anger. That's actually my next favorite Metallica album after MoP.

I actually like the idea of St Anger. Sort of like progressive alt metal. "Frantic", "St. Anger", "Invisible Kid", "Some Kind of Monster", and possibly others are all surprisingly good songs. The problem is that they seriously needed to edit that ****. Every song goes well past it's due date. And the whole album is over an hour long. **** that. If they would have just cut two minutes off of every song then that album would have been so much better.

And letting Kirk Hammett write lyrics was a hilariously awful idea. "My life style determines my death style"? Kill yourself.

I always wondered if they got the leper messiah title from Ziggy Stardust. Dont care for St Anger at all.

Cryptic Writings

At least you didn't say Risk. Cryptic Writings was underrated, but the overall quality of the album was lacking. About halfway through I stop caring.