And Justice For All - Metallica > Reviews

Advantages: Amazing thrash metal album
Disadvantages: You can't hear the Bass guitar

...album Metallica have ever made, and is the first with new Bass player Jason Newstead. Unfortunately for Jason (and everyone who has listened to it), the Bass is non-existant! Strangely enough, the sound is very different from the previous three, thus adding to its originality. The guitars are heavier and James Hetfield’s voice is more brutal and raw. It starts off with “Blackened”, a song about the death of Earth, and just about everything living ... Read review

Advantages: Metallica doing what they do best - Thrash Metal!
Disadvantages: Production qualities could be better.

...is a lot more crushing and technical (riff wise) than any of their other output, and lyrically more profound. To me a lot of the riff work is bordering on death metal technicality and heaviness, while still retaining the basic thrash metal framework and blistering solos. The songs are also a lot longer than usual and therefore have plenty of time to expand and develop, but never become tiresome. The guitars have a wonderful crunch, and if ... Read review

Advantages: James's voice evolution, Jason has joined the band
Disadvantages: heavy distortion on james's voice, you can't hear Jason, no more Cliff

...voice has stated to change, and they were trying to make it sound like it did... trust me it doesn’t work... all in all I think that blackened is probably one pf metallica worst sounding songs... The title song comes next, starting at a rather battery like pace, with a kind of medieval street mandolin playery kind of sounding section, before picking up pace & becoming much more heavy (although it'd be heavier still if I could hear the bass!!). ... Read review

Advantages: great consistency
Disadvantages: 1 or 2 bad points

...getting it but i did and liked it...which obviously is a good thing. so i'll get on with it then. Blackened 06:41 Hmm well as the first track i was very interested in this one seeing as i mentioned in previous reviews on music i don't normally like opening tracks on albums they tend to dissapoint me, i can't say this one dissapointed me because obviously i was expecting bad music from what i had heard. But no i was thoroughly interested. The beat ... Read review

Advantages: Has 'One' On It
Disadvantages: Couple Of Tracks To Long

...Lyrics fit the song brilliantly and are extremely well written. Overall a good opening track to set up the rest of the album. 2. ... And Justice For All (9:44) Again great heavy guitaring, although more purposeful in this. Again lead guitar reins supreme with some great sounds. Lyrics although well written and a little repetitive, which in turn make the song a little long, but that doesn't deflect from the fact that it's well written. 3. Eye ... Read review

Advantages: One of metallica's best albums, cool cover art
Disadvantages: Sound Quality not brilliant, very little bass

...known was metallica's 4th album and their last thrash album before the commercial metal self entitled album metallica. This album is the first metallica studio record (not including the garage days E.P) with Jason Newsted who joined the band after bands ex bassist Cliff Burton (R.I.P) died in an tragic bus accident in 1986 while the band was on tour in sweden. FIRST IMPRESSIONS My first impression was the cover art which i thought was a really ... Read review

Advantages: Some great songs
Disadvantages: Poor production, some songs overlong

...starts off with backwards guitars and then flies into a rant about nuclear winter. The song also includes the finest lead work ever played by Kirk Hammett. Lawyers then come in for a pounding on the title track, which is fine by me. If there’s one criticism of this track, and a lot of the album as well, is that it really shouldn’t have been one song, it sounds like three songs stuck together. Three good songs though. …And Justice For All is an album ... Read review

Advantages: It's Metallica, quite simply. Amid much criticism from the American public in their early years they still knock out such fantastic, original tracks. Well worth purchasing
Disadvantages: Bass is too quiet depending on how you like your metal but doesn't do much to spoil sound

...recent quitting of the band and so his bass was turned right down on this record. There is certainly less bass than other 'tallica cds but don't let this put you off. Broken, thrash metal is the dominating theme for the tracks on the album which is what makes it so appealing to me, so if you go for that it's already well worth a listen. The defining moment is clearly the award winning 'One': everyone I know that is into metal is into this track. ... Read review

Advantages: Hetfield's new voice, Classic songs (e,g, One)
Disadvantages: Flat mix with very little bass guitar being audible

...The music was more structured and polished, they were starting to grow beards and there was a new member to the band. However, this new member, Jason Newsted, may as well have not been on the album. Instead of the clearly defined bass riffs in the past by Cliff Burton this was just a flat wall of sound. You need an incredibly well trained ear to hear the bass guitar at all, something that I don't have. Aside from that the album is amazing. The ... Read review

Advantages: One of the best albums of it's era.
Disadvantages: Long complexed songs put some people off and the production is not amazing.

...this isn't catchy guitar hooks and sing-a-long choruses. This is one for eshablished Metallica fans only I'd say. If you haven't listened to much Metallica this is probably not a good place to start; however if you like Metallica's earlier album such as 'Kill 'em All' and 'Master Of Puppets' you will more than likely enjoy this. The tracks that really stand out to me are 'Blackened', '...And Justice For All' and 'One'. 'One' is the most famous ... Read review

Advantages: This album rocks, the artwork rocks and the long tracks rock. Awesome
Disadvantages: To Live is to Die only lasts 9.49, They hardly play any of this live.

...6:41. Very very amazing track, and It immediatly gives me the the feeling 'Yay, I bought A Metallica Album'. 2. "...And Justice for All" - 9:47 In my eyes the best track of the CD, and it deserves to be the albumtitle holder 3. "Eye of the Beholder" - 6:30 I love the drums in this track. 4. "One" - 7:26 He deserves a medal for the guitar. 5. "The Shortest Straw" - 6:36 A 'regular' awesome song 6. "Harvester of Sorrow" - 5:46 Rocks my boat, ... Read review

Advantages: Music to be manic by.
Disadvantages: Guitar solos.

...pounds, expressing a manic anger and energy that have no particular place to go, like someone locked in a prison cell and beating his fists on the wall. Whether albums like this create moods or complement them is hard to decide, but you’ll probably find that you’ll like it depending on whether or not you sympathesize with the emotion it expresses. And whether or not you can ignore the bloody guitar solos, which could be swapped from ... Read review