Can't deny that Kirk's soloing was a pretty big piece of the puzzle from RTL-AJFA though. Fade to Black, Ride the Lightning, Call of Ktulu, The Thing that Should Not Be, Master of Puppets, Blackened, One: they're all fantastic solos full of melody that fit the song perfectly, even if some of them do rehash the same…
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Nowadays he is. Stuff like Fade to Black and Blackened are fantastic though and actually relatively interesting, his sense of melody back then was absolutely unreal. Not sure what happened since then though.
Same. No matter how much my music tastes change, and how progressive/extreme the bands I listen to become, I'll never skip a Metallica track. Even if I'd rather listen to a Converge album these days!
Give the live show where Metallica played with Dave Lombardo of Slayer fame on drums for a song. I think it might have been Battery. It's fucking incredible. Especially in the second half of the song.
That's true to a point, but it was like they didn't even try. The title scene on Smackdown just faded away after they got rid of Heyman and messed around with the awesome Smackdown 6 matches they put together. 'Taker went into semi-retirement, Batista left, they lost Benoit, and they put a lot of weight behind Cena…
It could well be the best thing that could happen to him, to be honest. They're still keeping him strong, but he's not being pushed through the roof like recently.
Temporarily. Then Smackdown started to make Raw look bad, and it was basically relegated to the obvious secondary show. The WHC was just a glorified IC title at one point.
Skewing the rating of a metal album based purely off its lyrics really isn't the way to go. Especially when you praise the music so much.