Enthusiastic Metallica new album previews

[foodforthegods]

Originally Posted by Sad Madrigal

For me the Metallica albums are like this:

Kill 'Em All - superb
Ride the Lightning - my fav
Master of Puppets - masterpiece
...And Justice for All - a little mainstream but still great
The Black Album - good, but I like only a few songs from it
Load/ReLoad - it was better if they would have released only one album with good songs from each of them
St.Anger - an useless album for me

I don't expect to another KEA/RTL/MOP/...AJFA album but I want a better album than St. Anger

AJFA mainstream???????The Black album is mainstream not AJFA. How can 9 minutes song packed with tons of riffs and with dark vibe, great lyrics and thrash. Not mainstream at all. Yes one was their first video but it's still my favorite metallica song.

[Sad Madrigal]

^I said that because of the video, and of course "One" is my fav song from them too

[Carl Hungus]

Yeah, to me Justice was the furthest from mainstream out of all of their albums and I absolutely love it.

Kirk is sloppy. I've always noticed that when I hear them live. I swear he's really not that good of a guitarist. He can't play his own music very accurately at all. Hell, he doesn't even attempt the difficult part at the end of the Blackened solo, they just kind of skip over that whole part.

That said, he wrote some amazing solos... I just wish he could actually play them.

[Carl Hungus]

Oh, also someone earlier in the thread was talking about how newer Metallica has sold more than the old. I don't know all the specifics, but I do know for a fact that the Black Album is #1 and Justice is #2.

I'm pretty sure Puppets is 3 and Lightning is 4, but I could be wrong about that.

[hibernal_dream]

Ride the Lightning was more surely mainstream than Justice.

[wankerness]

So now "slightly more standard song structures" is a synonym for "mainstream"?

[antipunx13]

^ Can you honestly tell me that Escape isn't a mainstream song? I love Ride the Lightning, but it is indeed quite "mainstream," when compared to their other older albums.

edit: also, the few moments I've heard from the new album sound very cool; I'm looking forward to this album.

[wankerness]

Originally Posted by antipunx13

^ Can you honestly tell me that Escape isn't a mainstream song? I love Ride the Lightning, but it is indeed quite "mainstream," when compared to their other older albums.

edit: also, the few moments I've heard from the new album sound very cool; I'm looking forward to this album.

I thought mainstream usually meant something had mainstream exposure, not that "its song structures are like those of pop music and thus should be called mainstream even though they weren't mainstream." Using it to describe things that are less "proggy" or whatever you call the stuff on AJFA (I'd tend more towards overlong and endlessly repetitive!) makes almost no sense to me tbh :P

[antiface]

Originally Posted by hibernal_dream

Ride the Lightning was more surely mainstream than Justice.

Britney Spears had considered covering "Trapped Under Ice" on her next album...

[Carl Hungus]

None of their 80's albums were anywhere near mainstream. Don't you guys remember what popular music sounded like back then? If you liked Metallica in the 80's you were thought of as a psychotic or a devil worshiper or worse.

[DinoB]

Originally Posted by Carl Hungus

None of their 80's albums were anywhere near mainstream. Don't you guys remember what popular music sounded like back then? If you liked Metallica in the 80's you were thought of as a psychotic or a devil worshiper or worse.

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