The Big Four Albums Ranked PART ONE (Metallica Tier List)

[@Destroyer_13]

...And Justice For All is my favorite Metallica album. Blackened and One are my 2 favorite Metallica songs.

[@pairofjeansreviews2034]

Blackened may be their best song tbh

[@mattberg5315]

S: Ride The lightning, AJFA A: MOP, Kill Em All B: Black Album, Load, Reload, Death Magnetic C: HTSD D: St.Anger (But Frantic Kicks Ass)

[@benbong4577]

St. Anger is honestly underrated. It's not a great album at all, but i don't think it's their worst either, there area few killer songs on there

[@metalthrashingai2238]

S: Ride The Lightning, And Justice For All A: Master Of Puppets, Kill 'Em All B: Metallica C: Load, Death Magnetic, Hardwired To Self Destruct D: St. Anger

[@fourseasons4105]

1. And justice for all 2. Ride the lightning 3. Master of puppets 4. Kill 'em all 5. Black album 6. Load 7. Reload 8. Death magnetic 9. Hardwired to self destruct 10. St. Anger

[@ryangioia2358]

S - Ride the Lightning, Master of Puppets A - Kill 'Em All, ...And Justice for All, The Black Album B - Death Magnetic C - Hardwired D - Load, Reload F - St. Anger, Lulu

[@AndDeathForAll82]

S- RTL, MOP A- HTSD, AJFA, Load B- Black, DM, C- KEA, St. Anger D- Reload That said, I enjoy them all.

[@pairofjeansreviews2034]

The split from load to reload is huge!

[@valoryt1297]

My Tier List: S: Ajfa, Mop, Dm, Rtl A: Kea, Htsd, Reload, tba B: Sa, load C: D:

[@gwyn1076]

S - RTL, Justice A - Puppets, KEA B - St. Anger, Garage Inc, Death Magnetic C - Black, HTSD D - Load, Reload, Lulu St Anger is underrated. I don't think it's *that* bad of a album, if you removed the slower *St anger 'round my neck* and *FLUSH IT OUT* like parts from the songs and replaced it with something much much better. Honestly it would be one of metallica's heaviest records, there's a ton of riffs on the album that's really damm heavy and sounds awesome. I personally adore and prefer more raw, nasty and flawed production if it goes with the anger and pissed off aspect of the riffs. St Anger *does* have that in its sound but there is definitely a lot of moments that are objectively broken, i remember in one of the songs you can literally hear the guitars scratching like someone broke the damm thing.

[@nickp3949]

S: Ride the Lightning A: And Justice For All, Death Magnetic, Master of Puppets B: Kill Em All, Black Album C: Hardwired D: Reload, Load F: St Anger

[@pairofjeansreviews2034]

I’m happy you also really like death Magnetic haha

[@nickp3949]

Yeah I think it’s really underrated. It’s their proggiest album for sure, and in a lot of ways feels like AJFA Part 2. People complain about the production, but I think it adds to its charm tbh. I think The End of the Line is really the only bad song on there.

[@pairofjeansreviews2034]

Yeah like I can deal with bad production as long as the songs are there and I can hear everything! Like AJFA doesn’t have great production, but those songs are all there

[@rageinternet9391]

have you seen the re-recorded version of ST. Anger a fan made? if you did then what did you think about it? (kzbin.info/www/bejne/nmqcn5uag9OZo5o)

[@eumesmo71]

14:00 yeah! Death Magnetic is awesome!

[@pairofjeansreviews2034]

So underrated!!

[@michaelperillo6616]

I understand that Metallica's S&M record is a live album but,I think it is Underappreciated. Me and my wife used the version of the call KTULU from Metallica's S&M record for our wedding party intro walk in to our wedding reception.

[@pairofjeansreviews2034]

That’s actually awesome!

[@michaelperillo6616]

You should check out my KZbin channel. It was based on sports. But now it is music related. I am Mike Perillo

[@radiogagaforrocknroll8448]

RTL is my favorite I'm also way too into Megadeth, so I like Kill Em All because of the Riffs Dave wrote and I like Master Of Puppets

[@PainofRazeration]

Noooo Phantom Lord is amaziingg :( hahahahha nice list, keep it up

[@unleashthebloodthirst69420]

Where would you put 72 seasons?

[@drachireidnoc6659]

Nice tier list, here's mine S Tier: Ride the Lightning, Master of Puppets A Tier: ... And Justice for All B Tier: Kill Em All, Metallica C Tier: Death Magnetic, Hardwired to Self-Destruct, Load D Tier: Reload, St. Anger

[@pairofjeansreviews2034]

Solid list! Pretty similar

[@markpalavosvrahotes5575]

I know this is an old video but have you heard Lulu?

[@pairofjeansreviews2034]

Honestly never was able to finish it lol

[@krimson5121]

Good list, I have always liked St. Anger myself and it is just way too overhated and underappreciated. They wanted an album with gritty dirtier tone, emotional/angry lyrics with chaoticISH sound and thats what they did. I'd rate it C on my own tierlist. My fav songs off St. Anger are: The Unnamed Feeling Sweet Amber Some Kind of Monster St. Anger Frantic Shoot Me Again

[@pairofjeansreviews2034]

Yeah all those songs are killer!

[@the_motherfucker]

My favorite songs on St Anger: None

[@42yearoldboy5]

I agree with where you put the first 4 albums and death magnetic! I also agree that saint anger is d tier. BUT here’s where we disagree. In my opinion the black album is S, hardwired is b and load and reload are b (I’m one of those people who “get” those 2 and I’m a big fan.) The sound on saint anger,the lyrics,that stupid documentary and just the album as a whole,is the shits!!!

[@pairofjeansreviews2034]

I just couldn’t get behind hardwired lol I will say though those songs were definitely really good when I saw them live!

[@jamesthemetalhead21]

I would put kill em all and ride the lightning are S tier. Master of puppets and and justice for all in A. I don’t know about rest of list.

[@docvader82]

Reload is my least favorite, by far. St. Anger ain't bad. At least some of the songs need solos(not necessarily all), it needs editing. Too many long songs that are long just to be long. Tweak some knobs and it's much better.

[@Jayagebee]

(Personal ranking later) If I should consider EVERY about EVERY record most objectively, it would probably look like this: S - MOP, RTL A - AJFA, Black B - KEA, DM, HTSD C - Load, ReLoad D - St. Anger My personal ranking would be as follows: 1. RTL (some days number 2, but the surprise factor going from KEA’s rawness to this is amazing! Tighter, bigger, more diverse, but still retaining some rawness and intensity) 2. AJFA (some days number 1, I f*cking love it! The darker lyrical content, the top-tier musicianship by all, James’ angry vocal delivery! The production is weird, not only the lack of bass, but Lars’ cymbals sound clangy. But I’d argue that the sound adds to the bleak nature of the record. The title track is my all-time fav song from Metallica!) 3. MOP (objectively the most perfect, but I prefer the above a little more) 4. Kill ‘Em All (every song’s banging! Lyrical topics are mostly youthful fun, but you can’t fault them for that. Riffs are great on here!) 5. Black Album (perhaps a little overrated, but good production, some serious bangers, effective simplicity. If three songs were cut off, I would have liked it more as a whole) 6. DM (overall good, but that production makes it rather unpleasent to listen to. Despite the longer song lengths, they weren’t boring, but I could do without the instrumental and Unforgiven III) 7. HTSD (the first half has their best songs since Black Album imo, but that back half really drags it down!) 8. Load (has some gems, but is too long and kind of all over the place in tone and style) 9. ReLoad (mostly boring and/or generic) 10. St. Anger (it took me 3 days to get through it! My personally most hated album of all time, sorry man. Stupid lyrics, muddy production, the headache-inducing snare sound, James’ awful vocal delivery, no guitar solos. The only thing resembling Metallica on this abomination is their biggest flaw of over-stuffed tracklists with over-long songs)

[@pairofjeansreviews2034]

Lol I still appreciate st anger for being different and weird. If it had better production and was released by like Korn it wouldn’t get as much hate

[@Jayagebee]

@@pairofjeansreviews2034 all power to you for being able to enjoy the train-wreck it is. That it was released by Metallica definitely made it worse, but imo it wouldn’t be any better if it was made by another band.

[@docvader82]

Hardwire has a couple really good songs, but is inconsistent as fuck. Atlas and Moth are just stock. Death Magnetic is so much better. My biggest current issue, is Kirk's obsession with the Wah. Every solo is the same sloppy shit. He hasn't t been creative in years.

[@pairofjeansreviews2034]

Yeah I was gonna say that’s been his vibe since like the black album lol

[@josecarbajal1748]

For me after justice for all album everything they put out was jus shit