I voted ...And Justice mainly for nostalgic reasons, I was a sophomore in high school when that album came out and had been into Metallica big-time for a few years at that point. It's really hard to choose between AJFA, RTL, and MoP, Kill Em All I am just so burnt-out on that I haven't been able to listen to it for years now. I saw Metallica on the AJFA tour, the first time I saw them live was the year before at the Monsters of Rock, definitely the best concert I've ever seen though was them on the AJFA tour - during their final encore they played Whiplash and the Coliseum had failed to bolt the folding metal chairs in the floor-seating area, people piled the chairs up in several piles and one huge one in the middle of the floor and were moshing and dancing on top of them - it was just nuts and the only show that comes close was seeing Slayer with Motorhead and Overkill on the SoH tour a few months before.

Kill them all, some nice speedy thrash ****

Ride The Lightning! I like every track. Second would be And Justice For All.

I love the sound of Ride the Lightning and Kill 'Em All, but because of "One," I had to go with "Justice."

I'm a little surprised anyone would pick St. Anger over Death Magnetic, actually...

Or that some people have been duped into thinking either one is a good album.

Or that.

Ride the lightning is the best metallica album ever made on this planet.

A hard question.. Think i'll go with Master of Puppets on this one, the last creation with Cliff.

I would say Master of Puppets. But i think the most mature songwriting and audio production i would give to Load and Reload! Dont hate! Just an opinion! :laughing::laughing::hphones:

Reload, and I'm not trolling. 2nd would probably be And Justice For All and 3rd would be Garage Inc.
I think Hetfield was in better vocal form on Reload than he ever was before or has been since. I also think the album (mostly) consists of well-written alternative rock tunes with a lot of good guitar work. Fuel and the Memory Remains are completely skippable, but there's so much great stuff late on the album. Fixxxer just may be their best song!