Your favorite Metallica songs

Am I evil?
Seek and Destroy

All good choices so far. It seems most Metallica fans prefer the original Metallica over the 90s-today Metallica

I agree the original stuff is grade A. I like the black album because to me the instrumentals and lyrics that they used were just brilliant. Holier than thou is a good example. I actually liked some of the death magnetic stuff (a lot of that is because the year 2008 is sentimental to me)

In no order...

Hero of the Day (particularly San Francisco symphony version)

One

Welcome Home (Sanitarium)

Sad But True

King Nothing

Wherever I May Roam

Four Horsemen
whiplash
creeping death
blitzkrieg
disposable heroes

Seek And Destroy
Hit The Lights
Shortest Straw
No Remorse
Trapped Under Ice

Covers:
Breadfan
Am I Evil

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disposable heroes

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most underrated song they've ever made

And Justice for all
Motorbreath
Jump in the Fire
Harvester of Sorrow
Ride the Lightning
Orion
Bleeding Me
My Friend of Misery
Prince Charming
To Live is to Die
No Remorse
One
Shortest Straw
The Outlaw Torn
The Four Horsemen

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Load and Re-Load are much better than they are given credit for, for the record.

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Not just much better- they are both great.

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But Master of Puppets is sort of the best metal album ever recorded.

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Yes, consider this: James Hetfield, a poor castaway from an abusive Christian Science family had no money, privilege or resources...and yet he took it upon himself at the age of 17 or so to invent a new style of music to express himself (thrash) and then by the age of 23, he had created the crushing masterpiece of that genre.

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As opposed to, for instance, Slash. His mother was a big wig in the David Bowie camp, and undoubtedly helped Guns n' Roses on their way to fame. I like Slash and only use him as an example of it being great to know people.

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Yeah, Slash definitely had some advantages, but I don't want to take too much away from Adler, who was basically the original founder.

Hetfield really did just will into existence a new musical style. I wish so bad that we had footage of that first time he and Mustaine plugged in in the same room. Everything changed in an instant. I mean, just think about what other 23 year olds were doing when Metallica was putting out tunes like Orion and Master of Puppets.