Musicfanatic

This is for one of you

I realize that it isn't that heavy. The only really heavy song is the one you've mentioned. Detracting the other one you mention, though.


I don't consider the Black Album to be anything like Black Sabbath. Most of the songs that Sabbath put out were very doom laden. There isn't really many of them on the Black Album, but that doesn't detract the way I feel about it. To tell you the truth, Holier Than Thou was pretty good with it's against-bible lyrics. Of Wolf and Man was a dark song, about werewolves, I believe. Wherever I May Roam is pretty dark. None of them are very heavy, no, but the lyrics have similarities to something Black Sabbath might have put out.

But when you are speaking about Sabbath, I mainly see then as classic rock instead of metal. There is no real fastness to much of their songs. A lot the same with the ...And Justice album; compare that one to the first...


I've been meaning to ask, forgot in another post, but where does this "Unforgiven is the next best heavy song on the album" come from? Not one second of that song is heavy. My fave off the album, being Don't Tread On Me is much heavier that anything from the Unforgiven. I listened to it just in case I was wrong, but I wasn't. What is so heavy about that song...?



No, it isn't. But I think that there are some heavy elements in it other than Sad But True, detracting the Unforgiven. We just have differing opinions. Not truly that different, because I did agree with you that it was nothing like those that came before it. But that doesn't take away the musicianship for me. No, not at all.


So? I love the Black Album but it isn't my favorite. My faves are, in this order:

Kill 'Em All
Ride the Lightning
...And Justice
Master of Puppets
Metallica

I do happen to love the rawness of the first album, and I love the rawness of other thrash metal bands. I consider that one my favorite album of all time. Of any genre of music. But that doesn't mean that I cannot like melody from later material. I agree, the Black Album isn't very heavy. Though every album after Kill 'Em All gets less heavy each time I listen to them. Master of Puppets is a great album, but it doesn't have the feel of Kill 'Em All. In ...And Justice? You can hear the sounds of the next album coming through. I don't consider ...And Justice a true thrash metal album. And that didn't distract me from the music. It had none of the signature bass, which I think did it right; I've heard the songs with the bass vamped up in some Youtube vids and it just didn't sound right. Maybe because it's Newsted instead of Burton...?




I can hear Napoleon Dynamite saying "Oh, get over it. Gawd!" I hated that movie, by the way.

I'm awfully glad that it did come into existence, because I have many different musical tastes and, unless it's incompatible with my tastes, I might like it. And I loved it.


Okay. No comment for me here; it'd turn into a flame war and I am not about to start one of those. So forgive me if I just shake my head.


Yep, no one turns a screw better than Mustaine, bleep yeah.

I read the lyrics to Rust in Peace and a lot of the stories in it are only half baked ideas. I'm not a big fan of that one. I did, however, enjoy Countdown to Extinction. But I think I need to go back and listen to their albums again.



So far, I agree with the Black Album being the least heavy of the first five. But I don't turn away if they put out different material, just as long as I enjoy it. Too bad for all of you whom do not like it. But, as Dynamite may have said, "Get over it, Gawd!"