ICE NINE KILLS Frontman SPENCER CHARNAS Says Touring Stadiums With METALLICA Was An 'Incredible' Experience
Ayo, fun cover! I love Testament & their new album just came out. A great band covering another great band. Awesome.
Never thought I’d see the day https://www.revolvermag.com/music/a...metallicas-ride-the-lightning-on-final-album/
Doing my first discog run of Metallica to close the year. St. Anger was my first Metallica album (friend bought it in HS and we listened to it while skateboarding). Was wondering how that would hold up for me and I know it’s hated, but it’s still my favorite. I’m also a Slipknot fan, so I feel right at home with the full on 1:15 assault haha. I wasn’t expecting to like Reload as much as I did either, but I’m a Ghost fan too and felt right at home there also. Obviously the first five were amazing too.
So much hate since the beginning for St Anger. I personally find that to be their catchiest album lyrically and rift wise. Some Kind Of Monster doc also added to me liking it. Havent been in the majority for last 20 years, but I still would put it in my op 3 for their albums. And Justice is definitely my favorite.
I think Ride The Lightning is probably my favorite, tho it’s a tough call between that and Master of Puppets for me.
If we're ranking: Master Of Puppets = Ride The Lightning The Black Album Load Kill Em All = And Justice For All Death Magnetic = Hardwired To Self Destruct Reload 72 Seasons St. Anger
1. And Justice for all 2. Master of puppets 3. ride the lighting 4. Kill Em All 5. Black album 6. St. Anger 7. Hardwired to self destruct 8. Load 9. Death magnetic 10. 72 seasons 11. Reload
Ride the Lightning is clear and away my number 1 and the other 4 of the first 5 switch around all the time. If Hardwired were tightened up a bit it could earn a mention with those, but it's a little bloated. In a just and righteous world, all the songs on St. Anger are about 1/3 the length and it's closer to a hardcore record.
I get music is subjective, but to me those kind of takes are indefensible.. It's like trying to argue Papa Roach is better than The Beatles. I don't see how anyone could listen to a song like For Whom The Bells Tolls or Bleeding Me and then go listen to like Invisible Kid and say "Give me more of that Invisible Kid!" It's like everything that makes music good St. Anger fails at. That type of album would have killed most bands but Metallica is too big to fail at this point.