Greatest Metallica Album

[Guest Wrestling_Man]

OK, now I know that Metallica hasn't been that good lately, but you have to admit that they have had some great albums. But what's the best album they've ever done? In my opinion, Ride the Lightning is the best album ever, it's just great and I think it's underrated.

[Evil Chase K]

I think Metallica HAS been great lately. St. Anger is bashed and bashed but I love it. And their live show is still the best out there.

As for best album, I think each one is so different it's hard to say, but my favorite(s) would have to be...

Ride The Lighting

...And Justice For All

but every week my favorite Metallica album changes. But those two remain on top most consistantly.

[Blehschmidt]

Master of Puppets....hands down.

[Ash J. Williams]

Master

Justce

ReLoad

Anger

my top 4...I don't care, I fucking love St. Anger

[Guest Bluesman]

Anything but St. Anger...

[Big Tuna]

Master Of Puppets, Ride The Lightning and The Black Album are all great.

The Black Album is my overall favorite though, I liked every song off of it. With my favorite being Wherever I May Roam.

[K]

Puppets

[The Hardcore Canuck]

Black Album easy.

[Johnny Latino Heat]

Black Album for me.

[Rage]

Kill Em' All, the first album is their best work. Mustaine wrote some of the songs on it, the best ones, and the late Cliff Burton's work is at its best with "(Anesthesia) Pulling Teeth".

[Evil Chase K]

KEA is nowhere NEAR their best. Mustaine's overrated. Metallica's stuff got better after he was kicked out.

And as far as him writing the best songs off the album...he wrote the music to The Four Horsemen, but listen to his shitacular version of it called "The Mechanix" now you tell me who's responsible for it being good.

And Dave didn't write Seek And Destroy, Hit The Lights, Whiplash, or No Remorse.

He just wrote the main riff to Motorbreath, the riff to Jump In The Fire, and a couple of riffs in The Four Horsemen.

He hardly was the driving force behind the album.

[Rage]

Yeah but its just his "shitacular" lyrics that make the song bad. There would be no "Four Horsemen" without him. The riff to "Jump In The Fire" is one of Tallica's best riffs of all time. He mightn't of been the driving force behind the album but he layed the foundations for the rest of Metallica's successful career and his career with Megadeth.

[oldskool]

Ride the Lightning

Black Album

Reload

Kill Em All/...And Justice For All/St. Anger (tied)

Load

Master of Puppets

It changes a bit from time to time but I'm just not a fan of Puppets. That one song is good but there's nothing else on the CD I'm interested in.

[syck]

Master of Puppets and the Black Album are without a doubt the best Metallica albums ever.

[tristy]

The only Metallica album I like is S&M, but I guess that wouldn't count seeing as how it's a live album.

[MalaCloudy Black]

Master of Puppets....hands down.

Puppets

Listen to these men, for they know their shit. Master of Puppets is the best Metallica offering, hands-down. It's just a fantastic album, without a single bad song on it. After Metallica (a/k/a 'The Black Album'), the band's stuff started going down the toilet.

[zero]

I'm with the minority, I don't give a fuck, St. Anger kicks ass. And for that matter, I think Load is one of their best albums ever. It's too hard to pick the best because I think Master, RTL, the Black Album, and Load are all right up there, if I HAD to make a list, it would probably go like this, but the top four are probably interchangable:

1. Master of Puppets.

2. Black Album

3. Load

4. Ride the Lightning

5. St. Anger

6. ...And Justice for All

7. Kill 'Em All

8. ReLoad

9. Garage Inc.

[fineintent]

Every Metallica album is way overhyped IMO. Megadeth and Pantera do that whole thrash thing better. Saying that, I own Puppets and Ride the Lightning from when I was like 12, which aren't bad - just over rated. Everything else is meh to bad.

So Lightning or Puppets.

[Skummy]

I'm tempted to say Puppets, as (other than Garage Inc. fuelling my cover version obsession) it was the album that got me majorly into Metallica, but nowadays I rarely listen to metal and I'm tempted to say Load, as my all-time favourite Metallica track, "Mama Said", is on that album...hmm...decisions, decisions...

That said, I do despise St. Anger.

[ROC]

The Black Album followed by Ride The Lightning. In fact, I think I've liked every Metallica album before St. Anger, and even that had some decent stuff.