METALLICA Albums RANKED Best To WORST 

This was a great tier list; I agree 100% Excellent take!

What about dyers eve?

ah... what a cop-out with the black album. I know you did it because you think it gives you some cred as a metal fan, but seriously, that is literally one of the most s-tiered rock albums of all time.

You forgot lulu

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Better than Hardwired

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What a dismally low bar, limbo world champion

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since when?

@@elliotwatson3964 "a while" aka 2016 I guess :DD

@@bcbitchkkv ehhh naw I didn't like hardwired that much honestly. This album (mostly) rectified all the problems I had with it.

Your joking right?

It is big fan of all the albums they don’t make bad ones even at anger I’m real fan

This DM album is very good but the production is not great unfortunately.

I just wish it sounded better. Is not St. Anger levels of awfull sure, but i can't listen to More of 3 songs without getting a headache

The riffs are so good on it, but the mixing on it is just so bad, and Kirk’s solos are pretty lazy

Very weak album

Before they retire they NEED to remix and/or remaster Death Magnetic to give it some more life. I still love DM but if they ever did remaster it I would cry tears of joy

true that

Since load? Jdjddjjd men death magnétic and hardwired destroys that álbum is a shit about get bored. Nones those tracks have the energy o the thrasher thing. 72 seasons it's like load and reload a very forced Bad álbum. About the production sound it's a quite good like every metallica's álbum. Solid sound but un composer terms it's boring

I quite like DM aswell though

Agreed

Nah, 72 Seasons is the best album since AJFA. It’s worse than AJFA, but better than the Black Album

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It’s S tier for Lars’ trash can snare alone lmao

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​@@bcbitchkkv "Not only do I not know the answer... I DONT EVEN KNOW WHAT THE QUESTION IS!!!" One of my personal favorites

No, it gets F

Better production too.

Better production, but I honestly hoped for just 1-2 good songs I’d keep listening to (Hardwired gave me 3-4 out of 16 including bonus tracks). Besides Darkness being catchy, I don’t see myself returning to any of 72’s songs 😐

@@bcbitchkkv are you into other metal genres

@@JohnWayne-vf5bs thrash, death (especially tech), prog, power, and symphonic metal, yes.

@@bcbitchkkvwhat your favorite metal band

I've had many years to accept the musical change. In fact as a kid born in the 80's, Load WAS the era of Metallica I grew up with. There are some great tracks, but that doesn't make it underrated imo. Like we both said, put the good tracks of both albums together and it could be one of the best rock albums of the 90's.

@@MetalTrenches Load is one of the most controversial album ever in the genre, and received disproportionated hate for the band drastic changes in style and musical direction, and even appearance and looks. All this stuff for many years inevitably triggered negative reactions towards a very good album in his way, but anyway almost anything would pale against the legacy of his excellent preceding albums (the era of Metallica from Kill,em all in 1983 until their peak in the early nineties with the massive success of the Black Album is almost unparalleled in the genre) But Load have aged much better than many of the 90's music, and retrospective reviews by the media and fans generally agree to consider it to be severely underrated and overall a pretty good work in the end. I personally put "Until it Sleeps, "Bleeding me" or "The Outlaw Torn" in the top tier Metallica songs, just one step behind their great mastepieces like Master, Fade to Black or Bells. Adding behind pretty good tracks like Hero of the Day, Wasting my hate or King Nothing, and forget about 2-3 filler expendable song, (i would say even the country vibes of Mama said brings some variety and range to the album to the very least, welcomed or not). Lastly added to this great production values and notable improvements with introspective lyrics and complex themes, and the sum of all of it makes Load clearly worthy of the B grade and also clearly better than the reasonably satysfying Harwired or Magnetic. I go further here and impolularly put Load even better than Kill,em all, great debuting album in his way but a bit monotonous and rusty with boring generic lyrics and archetypical genre themes about destruction and death.

Bleeding Me is their greatest song IMO. And Inamorata has the potential to be top 3 for me.

I like the idea of pulling the best of load and reload into one 45 minute album. That said it would still get a C grade in my book as i would grade them independently at a D. Just my opinion. I was thrashing in the 80's and discovered death metal in the 90's, so load and reload went in the opposite direction of my taste.

Yeah, Bleeding Me and The Outlaw Torn are probably my favorite Metallica songs

I love a long album that WARRANTS the length: Opeth, Warforged, BTBAM, etc. These ones just do NOT imo

@@MetalTrenchesIf they had put the decent tracks off Load and Reload together the could have had a pretty decent 45 minute album.

@@evilone1079 same with Hardwired / Death Magnetic, although they were almost a decade apart ofc

@@bcbitchkkv I have found both of those albums to be just flat out dull with no real highlights to speak of, I think I would struggle to scrape together an EP from those two.

@@evilone1079 shieet, fair play to you then :D Death Magnetic had just come out when I became a (metal) fan, so I still dig End Of The Line, All Nightmare Long, and Broken Beat & Scarred - and Spit Out The Bone, Halo On Fire, and Dream No More were good from Hardwired imo.

Fr I was impressed about his vocals

His vocals actually improved.

Blackened is my #1 fav song ever

And now that happened exactly. As a musician, the new stuff is under all my expectations.

This isn't true at all, Metallica have got alot of people that hate them, actually there kind of a band people see as cool to hate, since load reload and St anger. But yeah they could make any album and it would sell a massive amount

Metallica have constantly grown. They are one of the few bands that actually havent tried to copy their old breakthrough albums. Which is a horrible idea. As a band you have to evolve and move away from your old self. Thats exactly what they have been doing with all the recent albums

metal enthusiast really don't like metallica for a variety of reasons, this comment has no basis, every album after and justice for all was a punching bag

@@metalpuppet5798 as much as most of Chris's diet of metal sounds like two cars crashing into each other at 150mph, I didn't figure he would go the commercial route and review Metallica just for the clicks. But here we are.

The S and M version adds so much body to an already great song. That performance is a masterpiece to me.

I always forget about knowing it, until I hear the song and I'm like: Oh yeah, I do like this

As whole Load album.

Yeah it's an absolute classic, one of the few songs that is improved by S and M.

Bleeding me imo is the best song on Load

It's a killer. One of their best

I lowkey like St. Anger aswell

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Check out the AI version with James 1989 style vocals...I didn't think it was possible for the song to be any more epic, but it is 🤘

Naw, Kill Em All is by far their best.

And justice should have its own tier

@@user-bm3ts2ql6s master and ride are better

Unless it's Exodus...those guys still know how to pull out a 5+ min track which still sounds as good, if not better.

Justice will always have a special place in my heart. It was the album that got me into Metallica and I was lucky to see them on that tour. If it had bass it would be my No1.

@@AllOuttaBubblegum123 Same for me but i have it as no1 even without the bass.

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What about bass ?

1- Justice 2- Lightening 3- Puppets 4- Black 5- Kill ‘em 6- Hardwired 7- Death 8- 72 9- Anger 10- Load 11- Reload

That's a bullseye statement for me, the guitar tones especially are too samey! Songs are blurring together, with copycat production. They do need someone to throw a wrench into their far too isolated recording process, they need a shake up! That said, I do find much to like on these last three albums, just lacking in diversity and sonic variety.

@@treff9226 Exactly!

Spot on.

I try to find the good in everything, but I’m also honest and try to bring humor into that instead of just hate.

I hear you, man. To me, Metallica pre 91 is untouchable. But, they haven't put out a great album since, although they have put out great songs. If you made a 9 song album with Load and Reload, you'd have banger of an album. I personally like St. Anger. It lacks focus and solos, but that was a good direction. I think with the last couple, again take 4 or 5 songs off each, and you have a fantastic album. Metallica still writes great songs, just a lot of filler in between. But, I get the idea that people stop listening and then complain. I'm also a huge Megadeth fan, and it's all I hear. People talk endlessly about the RIP lineup, but don't remember while that lineup made RIP, they also made the more commercial albums, as well. And they've put out a few banger albums since 2004, even the last two, but people wouldn't know because they stopped listening after 94. So, it gets annoying. I'm glad Megadeth and Metallica are still around and doing what they want. They can't please everyone and they can't keep making their masterpiece albums over and over again. Are these bands putting out their best work now? Of course not. But, who cares. They deserve the respect for having made albums that defined a genre, and had a huge impact on the metal world.

People think Lars is a bad drummer until they try learning Dyers Eve on drums

@@isaiahchristoffersen8579 Sure, Dyers Eve stands as arguably Lars' one and only "extreme" metal performance (maybe Fight Fire With Fire as well). But his REAL quality on the drums is how catchy and "singable" his fills are. Sure, he doesn't do crazy shit or usually use much double bass. But tell me ANY thrash fan who cannot sing every single fill on Disposable Heroes' 1.5 minute long intro, Justice's title track, Creeping Death or, well, Dyers Eve.

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After self titled for me

I honestly think Hardwired is better too, 72 seasons is a 3/5 for me. Love some of the songs though

Half of hardwired is phenomenal, the rest is horrible. But 72 has intriguing moments throughout. Like all the singles, and the other ones are probably better. The last 3 songs are s tier album worthy

If someone would turn this album into a S&M2 style album, the songs would be much better. Like what they did with AWMH, it's so much better on S&M2

good, its supposed to do that

Stfu. 72 Seasons isnt in competition with anything. Stop comparing shit. A band evolves. It has clear nods to the old classics like Kill em All, Master and Justice while they are still evolving as a band and trying new things. They are never going to try and copy any old record because it doesnt make sense. They could easily do it in the phenomenal shape they are in now playing wise. But as I said it doesnt make any sense to copy yourself or others. You need to write what you want to write. And in this case they got influences from all kinds of eras in their career without actually copying themselves. The album is great

I agree 72 seasons is such a good album

i’ll defend st anger to the grave, i can relate to that album too much

S+ Lulu

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Did you own it on cassette or cd? I owned it on a tape and also missed it for years due to the fact that it was so tiny lol. I think I also missed the hands for the longest time too😂

@@perpetualmotion357 I got yellow cassete tape but without cover and I thought that Damage inc. was fucked up due to damaged tape if you know what I mean. then I found bulgarian pirate CD on market place and bought it and realized that I wanna hear more stuff like Damage inc. and my cousin gave me Slayer. changed my life. I also had T shirt of MoP and didnt noticed helmet till few days ago. some kind of mandella effect.

Thanks for watching and engaging

Master of Puppets last? That’s a very bold choice

Yes. And some month later it’s a solid A. It’s growing. 👍🏻

Me too.Good album.Hardwirwd is boring

I personally prefer KIMB

@@MetalTrenches Did the weak production on KIMB hinder the album for you? What did you think of the remastered version? Great episode, completely on board with your rankings! Excellent descriptions and insight for each album - loved it🤘🤘🤘

If you think the songs on killing is my business just "blend together" I don't think you've listened to the album more than once. How does Looking Down the Cross sound remotely like the title track???

​@@Haxprocess looking down the cross is probably the only example I would admit is abit different an actually one of the stand out tracks for me on the album, and who are you, some random person on youtube to tell me what I have and haven't listened to, I been listening to thrash over 2 decades and Megadeth are a band I really like, I've heard all there music on multiple occasions

@@MetalTrenches That's fair enough I do like the energy they had on the album just don't think it was really directed as as well as it could of been and the production also weighs it down abit

EASILY. And I'd love to hear it

I have a hard time hearing Load referred to as a masterpiece, or putting it on the same level as MOP or RTL, but different strokes

@@MetalTrenches Understandable. But I dig it. I didn't always have that opinion. But through the years, it got better with each listen. Cheers! 🍻

@@MetalTrencheswould be an A tier if it cut out songs like 2x4, Ronnie and Poor Twisted Me

Load? Lold

​@@MetalTrenches load? It's a pile of shit

For me, it’s still Death Magnetic. First heard Death Magnetic on Guitar hero and loved it.

Best since Load, agreed!

Death magnétic the best porst ST Anger undoubtly get some help men

@@vc3126 DM is a solid ass album

Death magnetic has cool parts but hardwired feels more genuine to me.

For hardcore thrasher fan. The Sick, The Dying... The Dead wins. 72 Seasons, maybe for those who have an open mind. Maybe. Both are bangers. TS, TD... TD is on par with Death Magnetic imo he he

I also did a Megadeth tier list and will next have a ranking of the new albums from all of the classic bands against each other.

Do not do it. You won't find anything good on it. I haven't gotten along with Metallica since Load. I'd rather keep the memories of 4 really good albums than screw them up with all the dirt that came afterwards.