Best Metallica Album (thrash)

[Trollhammaren]

As Metallica seem to be getting bundled out of the forum band comp, I ask you what is your favourite Metallica album; that is out of the first 4 - the good ones.

I find it hard to decide between Kill 'em All and Ride the Lightning, both fantastic albums. Kill 'em All has no filler at all, but Ride has that shit song 'Escape'. I'll vote Kill 'em All, but would probably vote RTL another day.

Thoughts?

 

[ThrashViking]

Ride the Lightning closely followed by Master of Puppets - "Call of ktulu" and "Ride the Lightning" being the clinchers.
Kill Em All is excellent for it's time but it's pretty raw and ...Justice is ruined by a horrible production job.
The S/T is pretty naff and everything else is just plain crap

 

[greentooth]

Ride the Lightning closely followed by master of puppets.

Kill em all is fun but a bit immature and And justice for all gets a bit boring sometimes, plus the fact that jason newsteads bass playing didn't seem to make it to the final recording.

 

[SpaceMonkey]

Master of Puppets, it's as close to perfect as any album has come.
Ride the ightning was great, but still showed point wherethey hadn't quite perfected the formula yet ("Escape" for example), Justice was ambitious but too long and dragged in places (plus the production was a kinda wierd) and Kill 'em All was great in the youthful aggression stakes but lacks the finesse and mastery of the later stuff. All classic in their own right though. After that, the Black album had a few good moments but they've been arse since. The've still got it live though.

 

[El Diablo]

Puppets for me although The Four Horsemen is my favourite song.

 

[El Diablo]

Anything after Justice is shite.

 

[Alex28]

i'm familiar with all the early stuff and to be honest i prefer the black album...

you guys seen "some kind of monster"? great doco...

 

[PanthersChik]

Call of ktulu : ahhh what a sweet song. I have liked metallica for AGES. really got into them when I hit high school about 9 or so years ago... I have never got sick of them at all.

 

[El Diablo]

Technically it'ss not really a song lol

 

[Trollhammaren]

Master of Puppets, it's as close to perfect as any album has come.
Ride the ightning was great, but still showed point wherethey hadn't quite perfected the formula yet ("Escape" for example), Justice was ambitious but too long and dragged in places (plus the production was a kinda wierd) and Kill 'em All was great in the youthful aggression stakes but lacks the finesse and mastery of the later stuff. All classic in their own right though. After that, the Black album had a few good moments but they've been arse since. The've still got it live though.

Some fine points, I especially agree with the sentance in bold. Best band I've ever seen by a long way. Although all good albums, I find myelf playing the first 2 more often than the others. I will see the doco ASAP.

 

[Mong]

I find it hard to split Puppets and Justice. I would lean towards Justice though on the back of Harvester of Sorrow, Battery gets a close honourable mention though. 2 of the "heaviest" songs they ever made.

 

[blackfriday]

ride the lightning by far

 

[PJ Marshal]

Master of Puppets owns them all

 

[Azkatro]

Master of Puppets. Any album that leads off with Battery, Master Of Puppets, The Thing That Should Not Be and Sanitarium is going to be hard to beat. And Justice For All though would be a better challenger if its production was up to speed, I've always felt that it was highly under-rated.

 

[Marduk]

...And Justice For All

That's one pissed off sounding album. :twisted:

 

[PHaTMaN]

Justice, closely followed by Puppets.
I love Blackened and Dyers Eve, that is one hard assed song to play.
Agreed about them live too, they have been my fav band for about 10 years now and I have never seen a better band live.

 

[mightybears]

ride the lightning just

 

[madunit]

Master of puppets, the justice album lacked low end bass and sounded really thin. Lightning is a kick arse album too.

 

[shadow grinder]

puppets is my fave album by far...altho justice and ride the lighting are close together in second place

 

[Matt23]

Master of puppets