I'm going to surprise everyone by voting Anthrax. They sold out way before Metallica did with their hilariously bad rap stuff.

Although they all have done stupid shit that makes fans of the good stuff cry, I have to go with slayer.

Between slayer, anthrax, and metalica I am not crazy about any of them. To me what it comes down to is who was consistently shittier. While St. Anger is undoubtably the biggest shit cake any of them have released, (I would rather listen to anthrax play with public enemy than St. Anger) the parade of bad slayer albums over takes all.

Anthrax. Metallica's later shit is worse than Anthrax's (though Anthrax's is pretty horrible), but Metallica's earlier stuff generally beats out Anthrax's (Metallica's best, Ride the Lightning, is better than Persistence of Time by a bit), so I'll say Metallica is better,

i'm going to go ahead and say that all of these bands after 1988, and some even earlier, are worthless peices of shit. All have sold out in one way or another, and none are putting out good material anymore.

Slayer would be better if Tom Araya would speak up and not let kerry king and jeff haneman write nu-metal songs.

Anthrax has sucked since they got rid of Neil Turbin.

Megadeth was good until Rust in Peace, but Dave has always been a whiney little bitch more interested in being more commercially successful than Metallica.

Metallica put out one perfect album in Kill Em All, then got worse with every album they put out culminating in the most supremely embarassing metal record of all time: St. Anger, to further their downslide they have put out an even more embarassing movie, in which they show case their whiney rich bitch attitude and general disconnected attitude to the rest of the metal world. Lars Ulrich is particularly disgusting. He is an egotist little man with so many insecurities and so little respect for himself that he takes these insecurities and airs them out to the world so he can make more money, and then attacks people who can't afford to pay the rediculous sums for concert tickets and shitty albums, who download his already worthless music catalog.

Metallica wins as being the worst of the big four. They are not only disgusting human beings, but their musical endeavors are so colossal in their decline as to hearken to Lucifer's fall from heaven. Quite simply put, they are a mockery of both metal, and the music industry in general.

Coolest Metallica ditching I have ever read.