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Metallica
:Album Description:Japanese edition of their multi-platinum 1991 smash album that spent four consecutive weeks at #1, with the bonus track 'So What'. 13 tracks, also featuring the top 40 hits 'Enter Sandman', 'The Unforgiven' & 'Nothing Else Matters'. A Sony Records release. essential recording:Called 'the Black Album' by many (due to its monochrome cover), Metallica marks the group's entrance into the mainstream, with shorter songs, simpler song structures, and slower tempos overall. That said, this is an excellent album, featuring ...
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Ride the Lightning
: :No Description AvailableNo Track Information AvailableMedia Type: CDArtist: METALLICATitle: RIDE THE LIGHTNINGStreet Release Date: 07/07/1987DomesticGenre: HEAVY METAL essential recording:Don't let that classical-guitar-ish opening to 'Fight Fire with Fire' fool you--Ride the Lightning packs a heavy-metal wallop. While not as ambitious as the subsequent Master of Puppets, this early Metallica album is indubitably one of their best. Thematically, it explores death and dying from myriad points of view: nuclear war ('Fight Fire with Fire'), electric-chair execution (the title track), and ...
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Master of Puppets
: :No Description AvailableNo Track Information AvailableMedia Type: CDArtist: METALLICATitle: MASTER OF PUPPETSStreet Release Date: 07/07/1987DomesticGenre: HEAVY METAL essential recording:One of the defining albums of thrash metal, Master of Puppets is arguably Metallica's best album (as well as their last with bassist Cliff Burton). Focusing on the concept of power and abuses thereof, this is a collection of complex, intelligent music, played at about a hundred miles an hour. Not that these are short songs; this eight-song album clocks in ...
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Kill 'Em All
:Album Description:Japanese exclusive reissue of 1983 album packaged in a miniature LP sleeve features 10 tracks. CBS. 2003. :While not as timeless as Ride the Lightning or Master Puppets, Metallica's debut album--originally released in 1983--is still a fine piece of thrash metal, and as good a marker as any for the debut of the genre. Fusing the rapid-fire attack of bands like Motorhead with a guitar style reminiscent of such British heavy metal bands as Iron Maiden and Judas Priest, Metallica ...
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...And Justice for All
: :No Description AvailableNo Track Information AvailableMedia Type: CDArtist: METALLICATitle: AND JUSTICE FOR ALLStreet Release Date: 09/06/1988DomesticGenre: HEAVY METAL essential recording:This record has so much good material that it's a shame the production is so shoddy. Songwise, this is probably Metallica's most sophisticated album, exploring the theme of justice and perversions thereof with a vengeance. 'One' is one of their best songs ever, building from a slow, edgy beginning into effortless overdrive. The title track is excellent and never boring, ...
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The Way of the Fist
: :No Description AvailableNo Track Information AvailableMedia Type: CDArtist: METALLICATitle: AND JUSTICE FOR ALLStreet Release Date: 09/06/1988DomesticGenre: HEAVY METAL essential recording:This record has so much good material that it's a shame the production is so shoddy. Songwise, this is probably Metallica's most sophisticated album, exploring the theme of justice and perversions thereof with a vengeance. 'One' is one of their best songs ever, building from a slow, edgy beginning into effortless overdrive. The title track is excellent and never boring, ...
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Garage, Inc.
:Album Description:Limited Edition Japanese double disc pressing of this 1999 album by the Heavy Metal giants comes housed in a sturdy miniature LP sleeve. Mercury. 2006 :This double-disc, all-covers release could come to represent a vital turning point for Metallica. While disc 2 is a straightforward collection of every cover the group have recorded in its 16-year history, disc 1 comprises 11 new selections drawn from the oeuvres of such exciting and diverse artists as U.K. punks Discharge and nefarious Australian ...
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S&M
:Album Description:Limited edition release (1,000 copies only) featuring Metallica's 1999 outing, a set of playing cards featuring the aces in the deck as specially designed caricatures of the band's members, plus a 2000-2001 calendar with all of the lyrics from the 'S&M' album, a silk screened black t-shirt (with the 'S&M' logo in red on the front & a soloist in red on the back) and a poster with the four aforementioned caricatures. Comes packaged in a fine weave, fabric-finished black ...
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The Formation of Damnation
:Album Description:The Formation of Damnation is the 2008 release-- the first Testament studio album of all new material in nine years. This is the first Testament album to feature Alex Skolnick on guitar since 1992's The Ritual, also the first to feature bassist Greg Christian since 1994's Low. Testament are an US thrash metal band from California. Some of their records entered the charts in major markets such as the UK and Germany. Testament has two Top 40 albums and one ...
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Load
:Album Description:The band's 1996 album coupled with the four track CD single'Live In London', featuring 'Bleeding Me', 'Damage Inc' andcovers of Queen's 'Stone Cold Crazy' & Killing Joke's 'TheWait'. 18 tracks total. The single is a slimline jewel case;'Load' is in a stand :With Load, Metallica takes a dramatic left turn with their music, continuing in the direction suggested by Metallica, their previous album. The songs on Load have groove; they're slower, with far fewer of the lightning-fast riffs that have ...
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