First, of all, this is an absolutely disgusting review. ...And Justice for All, IMO, is my favorite Met. album. I find it disappointing that you use your review of the album as a soapbox to mercilessly bash the "current" state of the band and how much you strongly hate the band since they "sold-out", and have "alienated their fans". I believe you should have taken a non-biased look at the album. With all of the lines you used to slam the band, you could have went into a better, more in-depth review of the album. Why is it that many Metallica fans say that they love only the "old" Metallica and hate the "new" Metallica, but when refering to say, for example, bands like Sabbath or Ac/Dc, they just simply say that they like Sabbath or Ac/Dc. Really, the best stuff that those two bands did was their OLD stuff, and I'm not going to hate them for that! So why don't people refer to "old" Sabbath or "old" Ac/Dc? Compare Blow up Your Video with High Voltage. Compare Risk with Rust in Peace. Compare Diabolus In Musica with Reign In Blood. Why is it that those bands are still well loved, even after they made some rather bad musical choices, while Metallica gets hated upon? I'd like to know. if you hate the band so much, than why still listen to them? It seems to me that all it does is conjure up negative feelings. Boo-hoo.
What do you have to say to people who are still fans of the band? I seen the band fairly recently on their current tour, and they were absolutely amazing. The band played with near flawlessness. Justice songs like "One" and "Blackened" were incredible. Maybe most Metallica fans these days dislike their "new" albums, but that doesn't mean that the band still doesn't have that fire and that energy that drove the band. Without a doubt, Load, Reload, and St. Anger are not on par with albums like Ride or Justice, but that doesn't mean i'm going to start to IMMATURELY hate them, and whine and moan. Do I hate Sepultura for putting out nu-metal like Roots? No. Without a doubt, Metallica are in a creative slump, or a dark period (for example, Sabbath have been in the slump since Mob Rules, more than TWO decades!), and I believe some great things musically are still within them (especially when they start recording with Robert).
Overall, I think that this proves that the people who strongly hate Metallica, but "love" their "old" stuff, are extremely confused, immature, ungrateful, whining, little children. Go listen to truly untalented, "true" metal bands like Shadows Fall or whatever else is hot right now, and see where they will be at in 20+ years. In arenas?--Probably more like Wal-Mart bargain bins. It's funny how the haters are the ones that brought them up to the "metal god" status, but then want to bring them down the heap of crap along with Linkin Park and Def leppard. It just doesn't work that way.
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