Metallica/Awesome Music

Hotel rooms and motorways / Life out here is raw / But we will never stop / We will never quit / cause YOU'RE Metallica


 * ...And Justice For All. They had just lost arguably the driving force behind their musical evolution into the nine-minute epic-writing band we know them as today and were pissed at having to hire a replacement (the perpetual Butt Monkey Jason Newsted). They somehow channeled that into an album that had enough sheer force behind every song to make every song, from the opening reversed-guitar intro to "Blackened" to the last thrash-tastic moments of "Dyers Eve", an expression of the raw fury they felt at the time. They even managed to score a Grammy off "One", which cemented their meteoric rise to fame.
 * "One" is also #3 on best Solo and #5 on best song according to Top Ten.com anyway.
 * Speaking of Grammys, arguably their Moment of Awesome really came when ...And Justice For All LOST to Jethro Tull for the Best Hard Rock Album Grammy. The upset, more than anything else, put Metallica on the mainstream map.
 * Master of Puppets if only for the titular song, and "Battery".
 * Their entire musical career as one gigantic Moment of Awesome. Yes, even St. Anger. Haters can go die in a fire.
 * "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)" to the fray.
 * "Orion" is one hell of an instrumental. In fact, that whole album reeks of awesomeness, give "Battery" a listen and try to tell me otherwise.
 * "The Thing That Should Not Be". No wonder it was the Final Boss for Guitar Hero: Metallica.
 * DIE!!! BY MY HAND!!! I CREEP ACROSS THE LAND!!! KILLING FIRST BORN MAN!!!
 * DIE!!!! DIE!!!! DIE!!!! DIE!!!! DIE!!!! DIE!!! DIE, YOU MOTHERFUCKER, DIE!!!!
 * "Fight Fire with Fire", probably the most aggressive song they've ever written that's not on St. Anger. ENDING IS NEAR!
 * Death Magnetic. Years since their last good album, generally regarded as has-beens. How does this one turn out? A glorious return to their 80s greatness, completely destroying any hint that the band is dead.
 * Moment of Awesome related to Metallica, and no one has taken the time to mention "Enter Sandman", arguably Metallica's most famous song?
 * Their debut album, 1983's Kill 'Em All, which may just blow Master of Puppets clear out of the water. "Hit the Lights" is just fucking awesome: not even rabid metal fans had heard a song that fast before! "Motorbreath" is similarly insane, and "The Four Horsemen" is just plain spooky.
 * Metallica and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra's "S&M" performance. See "The Call of Ktulu". It raises the feeling of being with a Cosmic Horror without saying a word.
 * The S&M "The Thing That Should Not Be'' could even surpass the original version.
 * The performance of "For Whom The Bell Tolls" at the same concert was breathtakingly amazing.
 * The whole performance is basically a Crowning Concert of Awesome.
 * The S&M version of "The Ecstasy of Gold" is just breathtaking and sends chills up the spine. It's unbelievable.
 * The S&M version of "Battery" is absolutely amazing. Not only is it an absolutely intense song, the intro is complemented to perfection by the Orchestra. Finally, the intensity of the vocals combined with the excellent instrumentals on both sides is absolutely orgasmic.
 * You will find the words "Metallica instrumental" to be sufficient qualification for the Crowning of a song.
 * "Hero of the Day" and "No Leaf Clover". The latter is the song to listen to regain your faith after St. Anger.
 * The "Big Four Live" European mini-tour with Anthrax, Megadeth, and Slayer, with the performance in Sofia, Bulgaria on 2010-06-22 being shown in theaters worldwide that same night.
 * Metallica's first encore was "Am I Evil"... with the rest of the bands joining them on stage. Yes— Dave, James and Lars on the same stage!
 * Thenthey managed to top THAT with a cover of "Overkill" with the Entire BIG FOUR and Exodus
 * Pretty much ALL of the Master of Puppets, and ...And Justice For All albums. Death Magnetic also has a few.
 * HUNT YOU DOWN WITHOUT MERCY!!! HUNT YOU DOWN ALL NIGHTMARE LONG!!!
 * WHAT DON'T KILL YA MAKE YA MORE STRONG!!!
 * "Leper Messiah", and even "The Memory Remains", from ReLoad.
 * Being that Load was such a stylistic change for Metallica, it contains several excellent songs that frequently get overlooked - but the crowning music of awesome off that album would have to be "Hero of the Day". (With an honorable mention to "Bleeding Me" and "The Outlaw Torn")
 * Ride the Lightning deserves a mention, if only for the title track and "For Whom The Bell Tolls".
 * Alternatively, every song. Except maybe "Escape". But only because it's not really Crowning in any way. Least interesting song on the album? Maybe. Still a good fucking song? Duh. It's Metallica.
 * Lay beside me,tell me what they've done, and speaks the words, that I wanna hear, to make my demons run. "The Unforgiven 2" is just beautiful and epic.
 * NOW I SEE HIS FACE, I SEE A SMILE YEAH! SUCH A LONELY FACE, NO GOLDEN MILE! EYES TELL MORBID TALES OF HIS BLACK HEART! HIS DEEDS THROUGH AGES PAST TELL OF HIS PART! SEE HIS FACE! SEE HIS SMILE! I'M GONNA DIE! WHOA OH! WHOA OH! NOHO! Ladies and Gentlemen, THE PRINCE! When they start to play this live, the fans go berserk. And for good reason!
 * St. Anger is a polarizing album, but those who are on the "Love It" side really tend to love it.
 * The Beyond Magnetic EP. These four songs were cut from Death Magnetic, and finally released in their rough mixes. The song "Shine" finally got released as "Just a Bullet Away" and is totally epic. Also, "The Rebel of Babylon" is a tearjerking tribute to Layne Stayley. This should set aside all doubts about Metallica that stem from LuLu.