Old Metallica Still Has It!

Metallica... hmm...

Yep.  First five until I die.  And yes, that DOES include the black album.

To be honest, I found Death Magnetic a bit sad and overblown.  It just never really got the old cardio-vascular amped like, say, ...And Justice For All (which, if I'm not mistaken, was the sound they were going for).  I was really hoping it would, too, but...

In short, old Metallica still does it, every time.

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UMUR wrote: ^Again Vic you should write some reviews.

Agreed.

No, it is not watered down or tamed. there is nothing on Ride the Lightning that is as heavy or unrelenting as Battery or Damage Inc for example. On the other hand, as perfect as Ride the Lightning is (and it actually is, as are all first 4 albums), the musical brilliance in terms of originality, breaking frontiers and melting your face that are the compositions of Master of Puppets and Orion is pretty much godlike. :)

Wilytank wrote: Am I the only one here that thinks Master of Puppets sounds watered down and too tame?

Yes, there are different reasons for liking one album over another, but that doesn't make one album objectively better than another.  It's all just opinion, and it is not invalid to like one thing over another, but what is invalid is to insist that other people ought to share the same opinion that you do.  In the end, all it is is a matter of "I like this, and dislike that - you like this and dislike that" and it really doesn't matter where people differ, just look for people who have commonalities and use that as a springboard for friendship.  Going the other way and searching for differences to argue about leads nowhere but anger and frustration and that is just pointless.

I mean, come on.

Wilytank wrote: Am I the only one here that thinks Master of Puppets sounds watered down and too tame?

Probably.

Wilytank wrote: Am I the only one here that thinks Master of Puppets sounds watered down and too tame?

Am I the only one here that thinks Master of Puppets sounds watered down and too tame?