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[Frogman_676]

What are your top 5 or 10 songs from this iconic band?

1.) Battery (Master of Puppets)
2.)Unforgiven 2 (reload)
3.)Broken, Beat and Scarred (Death Magnetic)
4.) The Memory Remains (Reload)
5.)Frantic (St. Anger)

 

[flibbertyjibbert]

Two reload picks, good man. BBS from Death Magnetic is also awesome good choice.

Mine:

Whiplash (Kill 'em All)
Four Horsemen (Kill 'em All)
Prince Charming (Reload)
King Nothing (Load)
Ronnie (Load)
Disposable Heroes (Master of Puppets)
Orion (MoP)
Master of Puppets (duh)
Don't Tread on Me (black album)
Atlas, Rise! (Hardwired)

 

[Frogman_676]

Two reload picks, good man. BBS from Death Magnetic is also awesome good choice.

Yes! i think Death Magnetic is tragically underrated (especially in the Metallica community, so i wanted some representation there. I'm not even sure BBS is my favorite off the album, i love it, but there are so many off that album i had to quickly pick one. Reload is also a less-loved album, but it's more coincidence i picked those. Just love those 2 songs. I consider Reload more of an alternative rock/metal record and Death Magnetic a return to THrash.

I dig your list too. King Nothing is one of my favorites.

 

[Papa]

Fade to Black is god tier

Some gems that fly under the radar:

Am I Evil?
Blitzkrieg
The Wait
Breadfan
Carpe Diem Baby
Until it Sleeps
Bleeding Me
The Outlaw Torn
Harvester of Sorrow
Seek & Destroy
Creeping Death

 

[flibbertyjibbert]

Yes! i think Death Magnetic is tragically underrated (especially in the Metallica community, so i wanted some representation there. I'm not even sure BBS is my favorite off the album, i love it, but there are so many off that album i had to quickly pick one. Reload is also a less-loved album, but it's more coincidence i picked those. Just love those 2 songs. I consider Reload more of an alternative rock/metal record and Death Magnetic a return to THrash.

I dig your list too. King Nothing is one of my favorites.

Yeah DM is fantastic all the way through. The solo break in Unforgiven 3 is spine-tingling. The Deceifer remix overall is much better than the OG tho

Reload and Load are underappreciated I think. They completely switched styles to bluesy hard rock and made imo two of the best rock albums ever. Their songwriting is so good it doesn't matter what genre they do!

 

[Frogman_676]

Fade to Black is god tier

Some gems that fly under the radar:

Am I Evil?
Blitzkrieg
The Wait
Breadfan
Carpe Diem Baby
Until it Sleeps
Bleeding Me
The Outlaw Torn
Harvester of Sorrow
Seek & Destroy
Creeping Death

love the picks until it sleeps and seek and destroy! This band has too many songs!

 

[ValiantTraveler]

So many songs to choose from, it’s hard to stick to five, but here I go:

Wherever I May Roam
Fuel
For Whom The Bell Tolls
The Unforgiven
Hero of the Day (S&M version)

Never really understood the dislike for St Anger by the way, I think it’s a solid album.

 

[Airola]

Battery
Dyers Eve
The Unforgiven
The Unforgiven III
Disposable Heroes

Honorable Mentions
Fight Fire with Fire
Master of Puppets
Leper Messiah
Blackened
One
The Frayed Ends of Sanity
To Live Is to Die
Damage Inc.
Fuel
Sweet Amber
All Within My Hands
All Nightmare Long

 

[belmarduk]

One is my favorite song by any band.

 

[Airola]

Yes! i think Death Magnetic is tragically underrated (especially in the Metallica community, so i wanted some representation there. I'm not even sure BBS is my favorite off the album, i love it, but there are so many off that album i had to quickly pick one. Reload is also a less-loved album, but it's more coincidence i picked those. Just love those 2 songs. I consider Reload more of an alternative rock/metal record and Death Magnetic a return to THrash.

For the longest time I thought Metallica is the most overrated metal band in the world. I had bought the first four albums and didn't understand the appeal. I tried to like them but couldn't.
Then Death Magnetic came and for some reason that album made me understand what Metallica is all about. I revisited the old albums and suddenly started to like them a lot.

Now I can't really say Death Magnetic is better than the old albums (I like it more than Kill 'em All though), but I really liked the album and it's very important to me in finally getting to understand the band and start to like them.

 

[DESTROYA]

Megadeth is better

 

[BurstZyn]

Probably the hardest question to answer for me. Number is always a no brainer for me, but top 5 or 10 is always tough. So much to choose from.
1. One (And Justice For All...)
2. Fight Fire With Fire (Ride The Lightning)
3. Master of Puppets
4. Sweet Amber (St. Anger)
5. Fuel (ReLoad)
6. No Leaf Clover (S&M)
7. All Within My Hands (St. Anger)
8. The Unforgiven (The Black Album)
9. Motorbreath (Kill 'Em All)
10. Battery (Master of Puppets)
This list is usually changing on a daily basis though (except for One and Fight Fire With Fire)

 

[eot]

Orion

 

[JareBear: Remastered]

I have a lot of favorites but my two top favorites are

No Leaf Clover



and

Master of Puppets

 

[DeepEnigma]

Disposable Heroes
Nothing Else Matters
Master of Puppets
Atlas, Rise!
The Frayed Ends of Sanity
Wherever I May Roam
One
Creeping Death
The Outlaw Torn
The Four Horsemen
Dyers Eve
Mercyful Fate

Pretty much all of them.

 

[Airola]

No Leaf Clover

Oh wait, I hadn't heard this before!

I saw this on many lists and just thought maybe it's an S&M version of some song in either Garage Inc. or Reload (both albums I don't own), but it's actually a new song they made for that album, and damn it's a good song! Definitely should go to my Honorable mentions, at the very least!

 

[Mr Nash]

Orion

 

[Cunth]

Their newest one

 

[teezzy]

Trapped Under Ice



Crystallized, as I lay here and rest!
Eyes of glass stare directly at death!
From deep sleep, I have broken away!
No one knows, no one hears what I say!
Freezing!
Can't move at all!
Screaming!
Can't hear my call!
I am dying to live!
Cry out!
I'm trapped under ice!

Gets me right in the feels every time. I relate to this track more than any other Metallica song.

 

[JohnHornbuckle]

Too hard to narrow it down to 10. In no particular order -

Fade to Black
Creeping Death
Entire Master of Puppets Album
Blackened
One
Dyers Eve
Sad But True
Unforgiven
Nothing Else Matters
My Friend of Misery
King Nothing
Hero of the Day
Bleeding Me
The Outlaw Torn
The Unforgiven II
Carpe Diem Baby
Fixxxer
Whiskey in the Jar
The Unnamed Feeling
The Day that Never Comes
The Unforgiven III
Spit out the Bone

 

[MetalAlien]

 

[drganon]

Welcome home ( sanitarium)
Fade to black
Orion
Call of the Ktulu
Until it sleeps

 

[lock2k]

Orion definitely but I'll choose other four (horsemen) to add to the list

 

[Radical Dreamer]

Honestly it's so hard to tell
depends on my mood actually

...And Justice For All
For whom the bell tolls
Wherever I may roam
Ride The Lighting
Orion
Fade to Black
One
Battery
Welcome home sanitarium

 

[and 3 others]

My top 10, no particular order.

Unforgiven 2
Disposable Heroes
Fixxxer
Call of Ktulu
To Live is To Die
My Apocalypse
Spit out the Bone
One
Fade to Black
Sanitarium

 

[TaySan]

 

[solidsheelop]

great rendition of (I think) my favorite Metallica song

 

[NorwayBot]

Orion


The Day that Never Comes


Master of Puppets

 

[ManaByte]

 

[NeoGiffer]

 

[Catphish]

Everything up to and including Justice, and fuck all after that.

 

[kingbean]

Where ever I my roam.
Damage Inc.
Leper Messiah
Blackend

 

[Sorcerer]

Hit the Lights
Motorbreath
Whiplash (Also a certain live version with Jason I see on youtube, Jason is amazing in his vocal turn)
(Anesthesia)—Pulling Teeth
Four Horsemen
Fight Fire with Fire
Ride the lightning
Fade to Black
Call of Ktulu
Battery
Orion (Love Cliff Burton, sorely missed, and what could have been )
One

 

[JBat]

The call of ktulu
The thing that should not be
Cyanide
Ride the lightning
Don't tread on me
Hit the lights
All nightmare long
Sad but true
Creeping death
Frantic
Also like their cover of whiskey in the jar.

 

[Duellist]

All of kill em all, All of ride, All of master, all of And justice, All of Black except sandman......................spit out the bone.

 

[The Scrivener]

One is my favorite song by any band.

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Bleeding Me

God, the end with the solos, so good. Also, the last song on the album, "The Outlaw Torn", the same.

Love that album.

The best Metallica song is the one with Kirk. Fucking Satriani-trained Guitar-God, Kirk Hammett.

 

[TTOOLL]

This is so hard...

The Four Horsemen
One
Fade to Black
Master of Puppets
From Whom the Bell Tolls

 

[OmegaSupreme]

Everything up to and including Justice, and fuck all after that.

You should really listen to Hardwired again.

 

[OmegaSupreme]

So hard to choose. My favorite band by a mile. Master of Puppets I feel is probably the most quintessential Metallica song. If I was introducing someone to the band who had never heard them I'd start with that.

 

[diffusionx]

I dont want to put together a list but my favorite is Blackened.

In fact now that I thought about it I have to listen to it.

 

[Evil Calvin]

Cum on feel the noize!

 

[Catphish]

You should really listen to Hardwired again.

I tried, man. They just sound like a bunch of old dudes trying to recapture an attitude they abandoned decades ago which, of course, is exactly what they are.

 

[OmegaSupreme]

I tried, man. They just sound like a bunch of old dudes trying to recapture an attitude they abandoned decades ago which, of course, is exactly what they are.

I'm not going to argue about something as subjective as music but Hardwired has all the speed and fire and chunk of the old stuff. I'd put Spit out the Bone up there with anything on the first four albums. Hell, I'd put it above all their fast stuff on their first four albums. Do you also dislike Ozzy? He's just an old dude now. Slayer? They are old. Any band that started in the eighties or sooner is old now. Also Papa Het is infinitely better than his prior persona of drinking on stage and calling his audience dicks lol.

 

[dorkimoe]

Orion

I also recently discovered turn the page and i like it a lot

 

[Duellist]

I'm not going to argue about something as subjective as music but Hardwired has all the speed and fire and chunk of the old stuff. I'd put Spit out the Bone up there with anything on the first four albums. Hell, I'd put it above all their fast stuff on their first four albums. Do you also dislike Ozzy? He's just an old dude now. Slayer? They are old. Any band that started in the eighties or sooner is old now. Also Papa Het is infinitely better than his prior persona of drinking on stage and calling his audience dicks lol.

Lol spit out the bone is the only song on hardwired that could compare to old Metallica. Also Being old is no excuse. Yes Slayer is old and the new stuff shits all over Metallica. Same with Overkill, Testament, Anthrax, Annihilator, Death Angel, Kreator etc. Oh and old Hetfield destroys new. Not even close. Just watch live shit binge and purge. Bob Rock ruined Hetfield, fact.

 

[Mr Hyde]

Damage Inc
The Memory Remains
Battery
Fade to Black
Sad but true
From Whom the Bell Tolls

 

[OmegaSupreme]

Lol spit out the bone is the only song on hardwired that could compare to old Metallica. Also Being old is no excuse. Yes Slayer is old and the new stuff shits all over Metallica. Same with Overkill, Testament, Anthrax, Annihilator, Death Angel, Kreator etc. Oh and old Hetfield destroys new. Not even close. Just watch live shit binge and purge. Bob Rock ruined Hetfield, fact.

Fact? Okay then. I disagree with everything you've said.

 

[Duellist]

Fact? Okay then. I disagree with everything you've said.

Perfectly fine by me. Still wrong though lol

 

[OmegaSupreme]

Perfectly fine by me. Still wrong though lol

Sure. Go back to your anthrax (Who were never good) and those other shitty bands.

 

[Duellist]

Sure. Go back to your anthrax (Who were never good) and those other shitty bands.

Lol now I know you have no idea what your talking about. Lol good day!