boovidge wrote:lets not get into the argument about how AJFA is their best album again, but it's their best album.

hear hear !!

Blain wrote:

boovidge wrote:lets not get into the argument about how AJFA is their best album again, but it's their best album.

hear hear !!

Ah, faith is an interesting thing. Unfortunately the scientific research doesn't support your theory.

If we say that the last truly epic thrash release of the twilight years was around 1991 (Arise, maybe), then I guess I'd say the album that kickstarted it again was The Haunted in 1998, so that gets my vote. (You could go with Slaughter of the Soul, but I don't think it has as much of a blatant thrash sensibility.)

MartinC wrote:Leeeet maaah heart geeeooowwww!

Okay im gonna agree with you here Martin. Load is a great album, i can see why people are upset that Metallica changed from thrash to that. But, its still a bloody good album.

To be fair, I don't mind some of the songs off it.

King Nothing is ok.

Its a nice album. I can listen to it all the way through without wanting to skip any of it.

At the end of the day, good songwriting is good songwriting. Professionalism is......and that's what I want.

HAVOC MASS, anyone???

Killing The Future is a great 90s thrash album

I have no problem with Metallica slowing down. The problem is that when they slowed down it highlighted their major weakness - Lars.

reverend wrote:I have no problem with Metallica slowing down. The problem is that when they slowed down it highlighted their major weakness - Lars.

Well I don't think many people rate Hammett, and Hetfield seemed to turn into some kind of vocal clown.. And then Newsted left, so..

boovidge wrote:lets not get into the argument about how AJFA is their best album again, but it's their best album.

It's up there with their worst.

Stretching 10 riffs out to last eight minutes is just poor form, IMO. The Frayed Ends of Sanity is probably in my top-five for Metallica, but all-in-all it's a bloody tiresome album.The production was fucking shoddy as fuck too.

Creeping Dan wrote:Its a nice album. I can listen to it all the way through without wanting to skip any of it.

I must say, that deserves respect.

It lasts, what, 70+ minutes and there's about five memorable songs on it. All this considered, I'd rather have been leading the charge at the Somme than to have to have listened to that album in it's untainted entirety. Looking at the liner notes was vomit-inducing too.

For some reason, whenever I hear Mama Said, I just think about Cartman saying 'Gay cowboys eating pudding'...

reverend wrote:I have no problem with Metallica slowing down. The problem is that when they slowed down it highlighted their major weakness - Lars.

Surely the fact that Lars could never actually play Dyers Eve in the first place shows that Lars was more of a weak link when they were still trying to play fast stuff? Personally, I thought the whole band played a fucking blinder on the Black Album. I don't care if it's widely accessible, the drumming in Sad But True and Wherever I May Roam still sounds ballsy as fuck to me.

Metal Iain wrote:

reverend wrote:I have no problem with Metallica slowing down. The problem is that when they slowed down it highlighted their major weakness - Lars.

Surely the fact that Lars could never actually play Dyers Eve in the first place shows that Lars was more of a weak link when they were still trying to play fast stuff? Personally, I thought the whole band played a fucking blinder on the Black Album. I don't care if it's widely accessible, the drumming in Sad But True and Wherever I May Roam still sounds ballsy as fuck to me.

Enter Sandman has a killer riff but appalling drums. He doesn't groove well and the parts are all glued together.

reverend wrote:

Metal Iain wrote:

reverend wrote:I have no problem with Metallica slowing down. The problem is that when they slowed down it highlighted their major weakness - Lars.

Surely the fact that Lars could never actually play Dyers Eve in the first place shows that Lars was more of a weak link when they were still trying to play fast stuff? Personally, I thought the whole band played a fucking blinder on the Black Album. I don't care if it's widely accessible, the drumming in Sad But True and Wherever I May Roam still sounds ballsy as fuck to me.

Enter Sandman has a killer riff but appalling drums. He doesn't groove well and the parts are all glued together.

It's still better than what he was doing before. I mean, a lot of Master of Puppets is just out of time.