I'm just discovering their music as we speak.

ANy fans of theirs, and what are you favorite tracks?

Metallica is one of my faves. So much so that after I discovered them, I burned myself out on them in a month or so.

Kill 'Em All- Awesome, Aggressive, Ferocious
Ride The Lightning- Lyrical quality got better but not my much
Master Of Puppets- Off the Wall awesome arrangements, cool subject matter, etc.
...And Justice For All- Decent. The album is legendary for them mixing the bass out of it. You just can't hear it at all.
Black Album- The Peak really. The beginning of the end.

Everything after that, just isn't Metallica. They changed their sound WAY to quick/suddenly

yea fan here, but not ur regular fan...

my fave albums are "load" and "reload".

kinda like a prince fan liking NPS or Rave the most huh?

i like the older stuff too...

Fan.
I love the S&M album that they did with the San Francisco symphony. It makes all the songs more majestic.
And I don't care if people slag it, I like the Black album.

I'm a fan of Metallica.
The album I like best is Master Of Puppets.
My favorite track on the album is Welcome Home (Sanitarium).

I like almost everything I've heard, reminds me of when I first started getting into Prince 5 years ago.

My fav tracks right now are Nothing Else Matters and The Unforgiven, though I've only heard about a dozen tracks of theirs so far...

start with the early stuff and stop with the black album...Kill Em all, Ride the Lightning, Master of Puppets, Justice for All

My fvorites are the heavy ones on the Black Album. I like their earlier speed-thrash OK but if I'm in the mood for that, more likely to pop on Slayer (brutal!) or Voivod (psychedelic!). And haven't liked much of what came later.

If you like the mid-tempo chugging stuff from their recent days, I'd also recommend you check out Soundgarden's "Superunknown." That's probably my favorite big-rock record of the 90s.

My favourite Metllica album and Song? Master of Puppets and Creeping Death.

The last couple of Metallica studio albums HAVE been dissapointing, I'll give the bashers that. It's not that the material was uniformly weak (even St Anger had its moments), nor that they'd gone 'soft' (country ballads not withstanding). But I felt that some elements of their sound were modelled too closely after the mainstream rock fads of the day (much of Load had a post grunge feel, whilst St Anger had rather more Nu-Metal touches than are healthy). I expected more from a band that had blaized such a brilliant trail up unitl then. Perhaps they suffered a crisis of confidence bought on by the pressure of trying to top 'black' artistically annd commercially. Or perhaps it qwas good old Fashioned complacency.

No matter. I have high hopes for their next disc. With Rob Trujillo fully bedded in and Rick Rubin at the helm, I think that they can regain the compositional savvy that used to set them apart from the rest of the metal hordes. Right now they are incredibly tight and condfident as a live unit. Their overall show is fantastic too. Who'd have thought a guy in black armed with just an Explorer guitar and a Taliban beard could be so charismatic?!

bobzilla77 said:

Oh yeah, this was my youth Slayer's Reign in Blood, be careful the notes are fast and while they mention the Devil, they are not worshippers, just metal gods.

Soundgarden was a great band up until Superunknown, Rusty Cage was on an earlier album and people will be rockin that forever

Just about every guy I ever dated was a huge fan.... I just don't get it.

They are great musician's they really understand their instruments, and a lot of their songs are really pretty. I think it's the vocals that ruin it for me.

I know it's almost blasphemy for me to say but I think without James, I might feel different about this band.