Metallica Music Cd

Metallica - Metallica

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Metallica      Artist : Metallica      List Price : $18.98 USD        Your Price : $12.49 USD      ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 1991-08-12      Studio : Elektra / Wea      Label : Elektra / Wea      Avg. Customer Rating : (1227 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for Metallica      Sigh      Rating:      It's almost twenty years after the black album came out. I was a rabid Metallica fan when this album first dropped (I was 14). At the time, I was extremely heartbroken. This was not the band that pressed the previous four albums (five counting "Garage Days"), all of which are still in my personal top ten of great heavy metal records. I have bought those four albums several times, on LP, cassette, and CD. I bought this album once, on cassette, almost two full decades ago. This isn't one that needs replacing. Not that it's a bad album. It's just a bad Metallica album. You went in expecting Kill Em All, Lightning, Puppets, and Justice, and instead you got "New Jersey" from Bon Jovi. Bob Rock has his cheesy fingers all over this album. The Black Album is a snapshot of one of the biggest "departures" in recording history. Metallica were the kings of metal music, bar none, when this record dropped. No one disputed that fact (even most Slayer fans, which says a lot). No one wrote songs like Metallica did up until 1991. Then Metallica started writing songs like everybody else wrote them: Short, sweet, and saccharine. Not the real thing. In retrospect, this album is Metallica's pivotal moment. All the albums before it are far superior. All the albums after it are inferior. The black album itself is just "okay." No masterpieces, no loathsome depths, just a lot of shallow water.     Customer Reviews for Metallica Cd      Not a classic by any means      Rating:      I was 11 when this came out and I bought this and Justice at the same time. I was new to metal and I was a kid but I knew I was listening to Justice constantly while I struggled to get beyond the third track here (it was cassette.) If you liked well played thrash or any kind of music, it boggles the mind why you would want this stuff that gets boring after a few listens. Roam, Struggle, God that failed, Through the never are just filler. I loved Sandman back then, but I liked Smells like teen spirit too.