And Justice For All - Metallica > Reviews

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: 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: 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

Advantages: Definatyely different to the rest.
Disadvantages: Takes a little geting used to and the songs are long.

...all was obvoiusly the first and is a must for all Metallica fans. Metallica seemed to progress to Ride the lightening and Master of puppets. The Black Album, for me, always followed on from those two. Justice does contain some awsome tracks, One stands out as the best with the others comming a very close second. The two things that strike me about this album are the exeptionaly long songs, the shortest being about 5 1/2 minutes and the longest almost ... Read review

Advantages: Metallica album with the heaviest feel, some very good tracks on this album
Disadvantages: One or two tracks sound a bit similar

...to after master of puppets and ride the lightning, and succeeded. this album is heavy and the lyrics have powerful meanings. it is an album you wouldnt hesitate to put and listen to. it has outstanding riffs and explosive solos true to the metallica style, as well as bone crunching vocals. it also has its unique feel as well, it is angrier then usual metallica and it is also perhaps the darkest metallica album, with lyrics about our planet dying and ... Read review

Advantages: its great
Disadvantages: disavantages emmmmm you mite get a headache if u listen 4 too but i did i im fine i fink

metallica- and justice for all has to be one of the best metallica albums so far only beaten by ride the lightening. when i got this album i played it costantly and still do. anyone who doesnt like this should be shto because it has everything a metallica album should have: good lyrics heavy guitar and some cool guitar tunes from krik hammet. this album is so heavy that its as if they r letting all the rage out following the death of bassist cliff ... Read review