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If you have already heard a Metallica album
than you might as will skip reading this review since there is no bad
Metallica releases yet and hopefully there will not be any. If you haven't
heard Metallica, which would be rather unlikely, than you might want to know
what Metallica sounds like. As always you can't possibly know if you will
like the music by reading a review made by someone else since everyone has
different music tastes, just like anything else. What I can tell you is that
metal and music in general can't possibly get much better than Metallica -
the music is melodic, powerful, aggressive, slow, emotional, fast, technical,
heavy and the vocals are great. As you might conclude from this description
Metallica music changes a lot and that's true - no album sounds the same as
the previous one although there are some similarities. Metallica has been able
to develop and change their direction several times without ruining their
music style and that really takes some high-quality musical skills. Not many
bands has been able to develop the way Metallica has. There aren't too many
really great vocalists on the metal scene but James Hetfield is definitely one
of them. Probably that has something to do with his mother having been an
opera singer. If you have heard his voice just once you will forever recognize
a Metallica song. James Hetfield also writes most of the lyrics and lyrically
this is perhaps the best Metallica album. Musically it's not among their best
although it's still a very good one. Something weird about Metallica's
releases is that the fourth track is almost always a slow one and the last one
often a really fast song. That's also the case here and these two songs are
also among the best - the tragic war story One and the extremely fast
aggressive Dyers eve, about the bitterness of a lost childhood. As
usual you can't give a Metallica album anything else but the highest
point.
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1. Blackened 2. |
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...and justice for all 3. Eye of the beholder 4. One 5. |
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The shortest straw 6. Harvester of sorrow 7. The frayed ends of |
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sanity 8. To live is to die 9. Dyers eve |
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: 65.30
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