What a fucking good album.

I have included a 'favorie track' poll in this thread but thats not the main reason for it. The main reason is to show your appreciation for this amazing album.

Im headbanging my way through it now, I sugest you do the same and remember how awesome Metallica used to be.

Adrenaline starts to flow
You're thrashing all around
Acting like a maniac
WHIPLASH!!!

It's a brilliant album, and still sounds fresh as a fucken daisy, unlike all the turgid shit they put out since 1988.

Metal Militia!

Toss up for me between Phantom Lord, Whiplash and Motorbreath. Went for Motorbreath

Metal Militia

I can't stand even listening to this album. Same with Ride the Lightning really. If Metallica had a competant drummer, a decent singer, and a less samey lead player they'd have been really good.

Basically, if Metallica had had Gary Holt, Tom Hunting, and Eric A.K. in the ranks they'd have been super awesome number 1!

I voted Whiplash but seriously awesome all the way through. Funny how having Mustaine in the ranks with KEA made it their best album.

Metal Iain wrote:Metal Militia

I can't stand even listening to this album. Same with Ride the Lightning really. If Metallica had a competant drummer, a decent singer, and a less samey lead player they'd have been really good.

Basically, if Metallica had had Gary Holt, Tom Hunting, and Eric A.K. in the ranks they'd have been super awesome number 1!

Holy shit, that would have been an awesome band

True, that would be a great band but what makes early Metallica so good is not their lead guitar or drum fills or good vocals but the fact that they could write songs that were better then everyone and had amazing energy both onstage and on record.

The way the songs on Kill 'Em All make you feel is amazing, like something exciting is happening and the mad youthful energy that still comes across on the record.

Amazingly well structured too.

Metal Iain wrote:I can't stand even listening to this album. Same with Ride the Lightning really. If Metallica had a competant drummer, a decent singer, and a less samey lead player they'd have been really good.

Oh come on "metal" Iain, the anti-Metallica rhetoric is pretty redundant in this thread.

It is transparently obvious that Kill Em All is a classic early thrash release, and however much you whinge about them not being Exodus instrumentally, Atom summed it up perfectly when he pointed out it's the youthful, energetic and catchy songwriting, not individual virtuosity, that made this album so important.

James wrote:

Metal Iain wrote:I can't stand even listening to this album. Same with Ride the Lightning really. If Metallica had a competant drummer, a decent singer, and a less samey lead player they'd have been really good.

Oh come on "metal" Iain, the anti-Metallica rhetoric is pretty redundant in this thread.

It is transparently obvious that Kill Em All is a classic early thrash release, and however much you whinge about them not being Exodus instrumentally, Atom summed it up perfectly when he pointed out it's the youthful, energetic and catchy songwriting, not individual virtuosity, that made this album so important.

I don't think Kill 'em All was as important as every one makes it out to be. If Metallica hadn't beaten others to the punch then they wouldn't be given much credit at all. Just cut out the middle man and listen to Saxon, Angel Witch, and Diamond Head rather than listening to Kill 'em All. Besides, Melissa by Mercyful Fate came out in '83 too and that's so much better and that album influenced droves of Thrashers!

As usual, I'd have to agree with Iain. KEA isn't such a bad album, but I don't think it deserves all the hype. Certainly not to be considered one of the best thrash albums etc...

To me, KEA was just the beginning of something huge. It did not perfect thrash in any way or form. If I want to listen to top quality thrash, I'd listen to bands like Forbidden, Vendetta, Vio-lence etc... If I want to listen to an album that paved the way, just for the sake of listening to it, I'll listen to KEA.

When I say 'paved the way' though, bear in mind I'm not talking about how it was influential in terms of musical quality. It seems more like bands said "Fuck, we can do thrash better than that!". And they did.

Johnny Tightlips wrote:As usual, I'd have to agree with Iain.

Hoo-ray!

Metal Iain wrote:

Johnny Tightlips wrote:As usual, I'd have to agree with Iain.

Hoo-ray!

Hehe it's odd though, every topic that one of us argues in, we always seem to end up having exactly the same opinion...usually the opposite to what everyone else thinks as well

Johnny Tightlips wrote:

Metal Iain wrote:

Johnny Tightlips wrote:As usual, I'd have to agree with Iain.

Hoo-ray!

Hehe it's odd though, every topic that one of us argues in, we always seem to end up having exactly the same opinion...usually the opposite to what everyone else thinks as well

Maybe because we're two of the more regular national minorites who post here?



Who knows.