The Batlord

Jokes aside Metallica have a legit claim to that title with their first album. It's the most pure metal for metal's sake album ever made and has that innocence of a Ramones record. So yeah I'd agree. "Hit the Lights" is almost a metal Ramones song tb-****ing-honest. It's everything that was metal up to that point with all the unfiltered joy of being metal that the Ramones had for rock so yeah absolutely. And then you have "The Four Horsemen" which was everything that metal was building to, "Jump in the Fire" which was the most fun metal riff song ever recorded at the time which was pure Ramones, and that's just for starters. So yeah I'd say Kill Em All legit has claim to being metal's Ramones record.

I mean that point where Metallica switch riffs in "Four Horsemen" and go "Time, taking a toll on you," is the most metal thing of ever in a way that's the most punk thing the Ramones ever did in their own songs. There's a reason I'm willing to call Kill Em All possibly the greatest metal album of all time.

AC/DC are more of a blues rock band on steroids than a metal band. Obviously it's arguable if that's the ****ing point but I still see them as a rock band rather than a metal band.

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