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Death Magnetic»rank: 30par: Metallica
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Ride the Lightning»rank: 1254par: Metallica
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Don't let that classical-guitar-ish opening to 'Fight Fire with Fire' fool you--Ride the Lightning packs a heavy-metal wallop. While not as ambitious as the subsequent Master of Puppets, this early Metallica album is indubitably one of their best. Thematically, it explores death and dying from myriad points of view: nuclear war ('Fight Fire with Fire'), execution by electric chair (the title track), and drowning ('Trapped Under lce'). lnterestingly, the album's best track is 'Fade to Black,' a slower, introspective song about suicide. There's also 'Creeping Death,' which ... |
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Master of Puppets»rank: 998par: Metallica
Chroniques et points de vue: essential recording:0ne of the defining albums of thrash metal, Master of Puppets is arguably Metallica's best album (as well as their last with bassist Cliff Burton). Focusing on the concept of power and abuses thereof, this is a collection of complex, intelligent music, played at about a hundred miles an hour. Not that these are short songs; this eight-song album clocks in at over an hour, which makes it all the more impressive that not one moment on this recording is boring. ln tackling various approaches to ... |
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...and Justice for All»rank: 2884par: Metallica
Chroniques et points de vue:From : Having already established themselves as the streetwise saviors of heavy metal's oft-tainted legacy in the '80s, Metallica rebounded from the accidental death of original bassist Cliff Burton to produce their most thematically challenging, musically accomplished album to date. Despite James Hetfield's dank, extended portraits of a world collapsing from corruption and decadence--themes that virtually guaranteed it little radio or television exposure--the album was nonetheless a muscular commercial success. Even '0ne,' its complex, seven-and-a-half-minute adaptation of Dalton Trumbo's 'Johnny Got His Gun,' managed to scale the singles ... |
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Metallica»rank: 873par: Metallica
Chroniques et points de vue:From Amazon.co.uk:Called 'the Black Album' by many (due to its monochrome cover), Metallica marks the group's entrance into the mainstream, with shorter songs, simpler song structures and slower tempos overall. That said, this is an excellent album, featuring some of the best songwriting Metallica has ever done. 'Enter Sandman', 'Wherever l May Roam' and 'God That Failed', despite being slower and more groove-oriented than the band's earlier work, feature the same heavy riffs and heavier rhythms that have always been a feature of Metallica's music. The band goes ... |
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Kill 'em All»rank: 1097par: Metallica
Chroniques et points de vue:From :While not as timeless as Ride the Lightning or Master Puppets, Metallica's debut album--originally released in 1983--is still a fine piece of thrash metal, and as good a marker as any for the debut of the genre. Fusing the rapid-fire attack of bands like Motorhead with a guitar style reminiscent of such British heavy metal bands as lron Maiden and Judas Priest, Metallica essentially created a new kind of metal. Several of the songs from this 1983 album have since become classics, including 'Seek & Destroy', 'The ... |
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Load»rank: 5249par: Metallica
Chroniques et points de vue:From :With Load, Metallica takes a dramatic left turn with their music, continuing in the direction suggested by Metallica, their previous album. The songs on Load have groove; they're slower, with far fewer of the lightning-fast riffs that have been Metallica's trademark since their inception. While songs like 'Ain't My Bitch' and 'Wasting My Hate' are up-tempo and full of the vitriol one would expect from the quintessential heavy metal band, '2 X 4' is hard rock with a blues beat, 'Hero of the Day' sounds positively mainstream, ... |
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Garage Inc.»rank: 3264par: Metallica
Chroniques et points de vue:From :This double-disc, all-covers release could come to represent a vital turning point for Metallica. While disc 2 is a straightforward collection of every cover the group have recorded in its 16-year history, disc 1 comprises 11 new selections drawn from the oeuvres of such exciting and diverse artists as U.K. punks Discharge and nefarious Australian Nick Cave. The heavier songs, such as the Mercyful Fate medley, Black Sabbath's 'Sabbra Cadabra,' and the Misfits' 'Die Die My Darling,' prove that nobody delivers a crunching riff better than these ... |
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Re-Load»rank: 6548par: Metallica
Chroniques et points de vue:From :For many heavy metal fans, Metallica epitomizes the genre, especially for those listeners who remember the band's fast-and-furious 1983 debut, Kill 'Em All. As a result, their continued foray into a more stripped-down, laid-back sound with this album has met a mixed response. However, there's enough innovation and just plain strange stuff on this album to make it worth a listen. The creepy 'The Memory Remains' is perfectly accentuated by Marianne Faithfull's backing vocals, and 'Where the Wild Things Are' features the multilayered vocals and guitars that ... |
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S&M»rank: 4963par: Metallica
Chroniques et points de vue:From :At a point in their career when most bands would rest their laurels upon a greatest-hits package or live album, Metallica has done both, but with a decidedly loopy twist. They've recorded a double-live greatest-hits package with the San Francisco Symphony 0rchestra 'sitting in.' Rock history and cutout bins are littered with previous attempts at a rock-symphonic fusion, from Emerson, Lake & Palmer to Deep Purple to the Moody Blues and the Siegel-Schwall Blues Band. But while previous efforts at mixing the low-brow with the high-brow have ... |
