My Rating: 9.5
Track list & Lyrics
Fan-voting of album's best song
Cover Art
Audio from the album
My notes/review:
What a spectactular album. With fan favorites (and classics) "Master of Puppets" and "Sanitarium", its hard to find a Metallica fan who doesn't own this album. This album contains many other good songs such as "Battery", "Lepper Messiah", "Disposable Heroes", and "The Thing That Should Not Be". As the last album that bassist Cliff Burton appears on, it also showcases his talents on the instrumental track "Orion". This is definately one of the essential Metallica albums for fans.
From CMJ New Music Report:
Since its beginning, Metallica has been lumped into the
thrash/death/speed metal category, and it's
unfortunate. They possess all the power, speed and
aggression found in that genre, but Metallica is more
musical. Each track is quite long, yet kept alive by unpredictable chord
changes and arrangements. The album starts off with a nice acoustic - gasp -
guitar intro, kicking into a fast-paced headbanging delight called "Battery."
"Damage Inc.," or the title track and the rest come across heavy without
being mindless, powerful but not brutal, and, above all, always exciting.
Don't underestimate these guys; if this album follows the great success of
their previous LP, Ride The Lightning, this young band just may become the
next big thing.