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Published on March 14th 2008
Released a week after the first Suicidal Tendencies album, Metallica makes history with their 1983 debut Kill 'Em All by becoming one of the first thrash metal bands to ever come out of the North American continent.
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"I don't give a fuck what anybody says, the black album is one of the greatest albums ever written and produced. Up there with Thriller, A Night At The Opera and London Calling." So fucking what if it's on a punk site it's a good album. Considering Kill 'Em All their peak musically is the most retarded thing I've ever heard...have you fucking heard ...And Justice For All??? 1 A review of a 25 year old, extremely popular Metallica album on a punk website...oooo boy this is useful oh yeah, a night at the opera is totally my favorite blind guardian album. Many bands thrive on the chemistry of how they write and perform for one another, rather than just how an individual writes naturally. It would seems true with the Clash, Primus, Adam Ant, etc. And it would seem true of Metallica. This album was very much written at the formation of a band, very much based on Mustaine's material. While he still has a presence in the following albums, it is minimal and the Hetfield/Ulrich writing really, really comes to prominance with Burton adding, what I think, was a crucial punk/hardcore edge that thankfully flowed over into Justice (which is my favourite album) but not further and have suffered from that lack of influence since. Back in the day Lars was a slightly above-average thrash drummer...now he just plain sucks. Despite the fact that the man often gets credit for introducing the prominent double-kick to metal, he's worse at it than a lot of novices. He struggles to keep time on practically every fill he plays. Megadeth still rips live, eventhough its only Mustaine from the orig lineup. Hes such an underrated guitarist/performer Metallica on Punknews.org? Weird. Metallica nicked Dave Mustaines riffs, solos, and songs for the first 3 records....check the liner notes...if you love Metallica so much, go check Megadeth....all the talent and alot more of a raw feel.... Its about time a good album was reviewed on this site. score is for reviewing metallica on punknews. aren't there enough metal sites to do this already? So is this going to be like when all of the Ramones albums were reviewed over a two week or so period? Legit. i don't condone suicide, but if you can't admit this is a good piece of music.....just give up. Kickass album. Underrated no doubt. Playing this in your car will make you want to put the pedal to the metal and drive off a fucking cliff. these guys suck, always have, fuck this shit ass band. Sweet jeebus I hate this band. Metallica fucking sucks scores for how much i like metallica. Hammett's "lead work" can hardly be praised here, as all he did was copy Mustaine's solos note-for-note. "Seek And Destroy" has a PERFECT guitar riff. Seriously. dear wyzo, If you look at the writing credits for this album, Metallica used a couple of Dave's riff's on this album after he was kicked out of the band. " Easily a ten. Thanks mostly to Mr.Mustaine" what's that supposed to mean? metallica were just fine without dave, at least in the 80's. In Order: Good album, but if you think this is the pinnacle of their career I don't know what fucking band you're talking about. They got better (ok Puppets is their peak, but AJFA is fucking awesome) and even the black album has some awesome stuff on it. Lars is quite an average drummer, but he's by no means terrible. He's definitely gotten worse, but so has Kirk. Anyways, I'm gonna go with Just hope I have my metal history straight here but wasn't this album originally going to be called "Metal Up Your Ass" and the cover art would feature a muscular hand with a knife emerging from the confines of a toilet? That's pretty sick. Just for fun. About time this album was reviewed. Easily a ten. Thanks mostly to Mr.Mustaine, but I won't open that can of worms. " While not as timeless as their later albums" and then ending with "As far as I am concerned this is the peak of Metallica as far as their music. " as a 16-year old punk hearing this album blew me away. I love the hell out of this album and everything else up to ...And Justice For All. I'm not much of a metallica fan, ut I was all about that ST review. Motorbreath is always good, but most of the stuff on this album was topped by Ride The Lightning in my opinion. Totally random review.....but yes this album shreds like few others. And Lars "drumming on trashcans" is from their latest album, which yes it does sound like that, and it's awfully embarrassing. But all members of this band had some amazing talent. Ride the lightning is the underdog, very good album but gets overshadowed most of the time. I've never heard the whole album but Seek & Destroy is fucking awesome. "Lars is a terrible drummer? What?" only thing worthwhile Metallica has ever done, in my opinion Everything this band did in the 80's rules. If only that Metallica would return. something tells me we all got massively trolled with this review. fuck this band Lars is a terrible drummer? What? a stone cold classic. god, im on the biggest metal kick of my life right now. Wow, all the ethnocentrism and elitism have finally paid off. We're our own continent now! Eat that, Canada & Mexico! U! S! A! U! S! A! |
