...And Justice For All

I listened with my wife who insisted I turned it off

All sounds exactly the same to me

Great playing. Unfortunately, it’s just noise to me.

I have my preconceived notions about some albums/bands. Metallica is in that Mt. Rushmore. I listen just as you all do anyway. I get the appeal but it is just not for me.

metallica just arent that good

Widdly, grunting Beavis and Butthead thrash metal with ever-shifting time signatures. Even at the time this tinny, audio cassette style production must have made it unlistenable, surely? It falls at the first hurdle for me. To quote their own track listing: ONE!

Doesn’t even have any of their songs that are arguably good… big fat NO from me

Hated this. Don't like metal. Nothing worth playing back in my mind.

This album reminds me why I'm not a fan of them

What a load of garbage

at late night drinking beer and listening to metallica and keep wondering how can one album sounds so awful. WHERE IS MY LOWER FREQUENCY??? this just feel so weird. I can't stand this. I mean guitar riffs are cool but where's my bass...this sounds so weird and hollow. I hate music without bass.

Can't

Endured an hour of this crap and absolutely nothing stood out. Overrated noise.

This album was shit when I first heard it, and now it’s remastered shit. Congratulations. You got big and decided to write Really Important songs. But they sucked! And you forgot to write good music to accompany your diary entries! You could have been the AC/DC of metal, man. You blew it.

Not familiar with the metal genre at all, but sounds very flat. theres some interesting stuff happening with the riffs and drums but the mix and the vocals just drown out any redeeming moments for me.

I still don't like metal

I found it annoying.

0.8 - J “alt for repeating” 1.5 - S

Toddler music

Ugh, another Metallica. See my previous review--feelings have not changed.

Wow some people like this.

Metallica still sucks.

Where is the bass?

Bollocks

ugh! Now I have a headache!

Part 1. I’m starting this review 2 songs in. I’ve never really liked Metallica. I don’t like the dudes voice, I don’t like the tone of the guitar, and I don’t really like the guitar riffs or the drum pacing. I am very singular in my metal tastes and I’ve tried a few times but Metallica has never done it for me. This album so far has not changed my preconceived notions. It’s a bias I can’t turn off because Metallica in particular has been a band I’ve built my musical tastes in direct contrast to. It’s fine I guess if you’re into them. A 9 minute song that doesn’t build that hard is wild, and if the titular song only delivers that much I’m not sure the rest of the album will sway me. Part 2. “One” is at least different. Finally some variety and melody. Still not my style but at least they finally played something besides choppy ass power chords. I skimmed the last few songs. They hardly stray from their core sound and it’s one I don’t care for. The whole thing reeks of body odor and Natty Light as far as I’m concerned.

I fucking hate Metallica. They actively suck to me, and they might be my least favorite band of all time. Every metal artist that was inspired by this band is better, and therefore there is literally no reason to ever listen to this boring, irritating, trying-to-be-dark garbage. I'm sure this isn't the only Metallica record on this list, but I wish it was. Sucks.

Not for me

Bit angry and rough, not for me

Super gay

Not my type of music Songs were way too long imo Really struggled to get through it; even though it was only an hour long. Sooooo dull... Genuinely couldn't tell the difference between a couple songs

I'm tempted to describe this as comically bad but I'm suffering a serious humour deficit after an hour of my eardrums being assaulted by this risible garbage. I get that Metallica are on the list as they have a following but this is my 4th Metallica album ffs. One album as a nod to their work is more than enough - the retards who actually like this shit know where to find more of it & the rest of us don't need to have our lives further blighted.

Settle down, James…. I honestly like most of it besides the singing.

Pointless noise.

This is rock music for 12-year-olds who think they're edgy.

There were moments, but I still don't like metal. I KNOW I've been told I'm "wrong" by metal fans, but the genre sounds like it's completely disregarded musical dynamics, only using ffff except as a "gimmick." It just sounds like a wall of unpleasant noise.

Tride to listen on 2 separate occasions Not a fan

Napster hates you Metallica

so much the same...

Mostly boring, sometimes cringey

Later Metallica is pretty good. This is unlistenable for me.

Not for me...

come on

STANDOUTS: Maybe...One? OVERALL: 1.5/5; hard metal—infamously not my thing.

I really don't like Metallica. I kinda wish I did given the reviews of people whose tastes I respect. Sadly, after And Justice for All finished, Spotify played Would? by Alice In Chains and I thought to myself "Finally."

Shut up please. It's so artless, there's no nuance, no light and shade, no nothing. It also, weirdly, doesn't even feel very heavy. I've seen some complaints about the lack of bass in the mix, and maybe that's it. It sounds like hearing it from quite far away (but not far away enough) at a festival. It's better than their self-titled album, but way worse than Master of Puppets.

Didn't like, won't listen to again. Sounds very repetitive.

Alltså, klarar inte av att lyssna på det här helt ärligt. Not enjoyable

Inte såld, blir stressad av trummorna och låtarna va alldeles för långa…

Would I ever buy this record, nope. Will I ever listen to this record again, nope. Would I give this record even one star, nope. So let me sum it up, nope, nope, nope!

Fat prefer their later stuff but some nice guitar

not my kind of music

No soy precisamente un fan del metal, pero este disco de Metallica es uno de los que mejor reputación tiene (más de 8 millones de copias vendidas) al margen de haber perdido el Grammy frente Jetrho Tull. Sin embargo es un disco que no me gusta especialmente. Su producción ha sido muy criticada y creo que con acierto porque suena todo muy plano, nada orgánico, lejos de lo que debe tener un buen disco de Rock. Las canciones más conocidas son: One (gran canción) , Eye of the Beholder y Dyers Eve. Me esperaba otra cosa. Este disco me dice bastante poco. Hubo bastantes mejores discos ese 1988: Public Enemy con It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back ,Pixies con Surfer Rosa, Daydream Nation de Sonic Youth, Lovesexy de Prince, Green de R.E.M. ,Talking Heads con Naked, el debut de Tracy Chapman, Eric B. & Rakim con Follow the Leader, Tender Prey de Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, Morrissey debut con Viva Hate , I'm Your Man de Leonard Cohen, The Pogues con If I Should Fall From Grace With God, el debut de The Sugarcubes con Life's Too Good, Bug de Dinosaur Jr, Pet Shop Boys con Introspective, Vivid de Living Colour; Prefab Sprout con From Langley Park to Memphis, 69 de A.R. Kane, Run-D.M.C. con Tougher Than Leather, The House of Love de The House of Love, The Serpent's Egg de Dead Can Dance, Barbed Wire Kisses de The Jesus and Mary Chain, 101 de Depeche Mode, Bummed de los Happy Mondays, Bummed de Happy Mondays, Songhai de Ketama, Sex & Drugs & Jesus Christ de Christian Death, Birth, School, Work, Death de The Godfathers, el debut de L7, Stronger than pride de Sade, G N'R Lies de Guns and Roses, Only life de The Felies, Today de Galaxie 500, Fisherman's blues de Waterboys, 16 lovers lane de The Go-Betweens, Spirit of eden de Talk Talk, Watermark de Enya, Cocteau Twins de Blue Bell Knoll, Peepshow de Siouxsie & the Banshees, Idlewild de Everything but the Girl , Conscious Party de Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers, The First of a Million Kisses de Fairground Attraction, People de Hothouse Flowers, Straight Outta Compton de N.W.A, It Takes Two de Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock, Nothing's Shocking de Jane's Addiction, Ancient Heart de Tanita Tikaram, La pistola y el corazón de Los Lobos, Talk Is Cheap de Keith Richards, Everything de The Bangles, el Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1, Look Sharp! de Roxette, El Ritmo Mundial de Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, Shaday de Ofra Haza, Straight out the Jungle de The Jungle Brothers, California de American Music Club, The Trinity Session de Cowboy Junkies, Isn't Anything de My Bloody Valentine, Pata Negra y su Blues de la frontera No digo ya cosas como Robert Palmer, Eight Wonder, Boby McFerrin, Tiffany, New Kids on the Block, Jean Michel Jarre, U2, Martika, Milli Vanilli o Womack and Womack, que tuvieron su gracia.

no

Just awful!

Didnt like it then, still don't like it

How can something that is theoretically exciting and hard be so fucking boring in actuality. I hate the drums, I hate James’s voice, I think I hate Metallica

Seemingly 8 hours long, and recorded at 64kbps. Fucking dreadful repetitive nonsense. Singer (singer-ah), awful. Drums, basic. Bass, seemingly turned down as he was new. Guitar, good at what it was, but fuck an album needs more than that.

This was not interesting at all to me. Every song started to sound the same, and I’m not gonna remember what any of it sounded like in a day or two.

I’ve never really listened to Metallica, so I let this one play while doing some work, and I came to the conclusion that they are overrated. The guitar work, which is what makes metal music, is so bland. The vocals were also very bland. For metal, this was hugely boring to me. Not a fan.

I really doubted I would be able to get all the way through this one. It's a tough listen. I don't mind some of the riffage and the drumming but the vocals are truly terrible and the guitar solos made me want to laugh out loud. Those are the high points. I felt physically ill while listening to this.

2/10 An intersection of my least favourite things: hard metal and self-serious music One of the rare times I didn’t bother finishing, first half was enough Really, really not for me. Hated this

I just don’t understand why I hate this so much and so many others love it. Maybe you either have to be a dumb adult or a middle-schooler (and so automatically dumb) so that your affection for it carries over to when you are a non-dumb adult. Or maybe it’s like cilantro and you are either born with the gene that makes this sound good to you and if you don’t have that gene then it tastes like soap. I don’t know what makes me hate this, but boy do I. It’s dumb and loud and angry and just the worst. I don’t care if it’s thrash or prog metal or heavy metal or hard rock cause all that shit sounds the same to me anyway. Hairy assholes making unpleasant sounding music for dumb people to hit each other or further sustain brain damage to. There is nothing redeeming about this to me whatsoever. Just ugly noise that makes my day worse.

DNF at the second song. This is so not for me. I recognize they are excellent musicians and for metal fans this is likely amazing. I am not a metal fan. Kbye!

blah blah noise

I just can't handle two Metallica albums in a week.

Who can enjoy this shit?

Best song: Vibes: cool anger, drama Themes: justice, sorrow

Not good. They are pretty good at their instruments but I don’t like it 2/10

металлика скучная фигня

Yesterday, GNR. Today this… I feel like I’m being recommended music by a 11 year old white boy who is just getting into music.

These motherfuckers have made one song their entire goddamn careers and the only times it worked were on their first song and their second song.

Geez I wish I liked metal music. I can appreciate the technical skill involved in making something to complex and specific, as well as the emotional resonance an album like this could make an angsty listener feel. However, it it just sounds like chaos to me. The muddy sound of the grunge guitar, the aggressive tones, the intense strobing & constant crash of the drums, and the raspy vocals make me want to do nothing more than turn it off and enjoy the absence of being acoustically attacked.

One is a monumental song but every other track on this boring ass album sounds near identical

Iiih

And Justice for All has a nice start and sound to the track. Drums are very prominent in the songs. Sound smaller than the big heavy metal sound Metallica had become. Lars had great drum patterns. Metallica ain’t my thing.

Come back Johnny all is forgiven. There was me venting my opinion that Johnny Rotten had no redeeming quality in my review of the Sex Pistols and then there is this abomination proving me wrong. Because however bad Johnny Rotten is as a musician at least he isn't James Hetfield. Next to James Hetfield Johnny Rotten is almost a talented musician. (almost, let's not give Johnny too much credit). Seconds into every track my ears were screaming to my brain "Please let it stop". My brain vindictive bastard that it is would then continue to subject my ears to at least two more minutes before it could itself no longer take it and skip to the next track hoping against hope it might be less shit. After "One" it finally decided to give my ears what they wanted and made it stop. So this is the second album I couldn't finish. (the first being the ghastly "Speakerboxxx", strangely I actually liked the "The Love Below" part of that strange twin solo album). According to some of the reviews for this album there are at least three more Metallica albums on this list. Great, can't wait. Have to go now, have to perform an exorcism on my amplifier and arrange some therapy for it.

Bland hair stuff.

Demasiado para mí ese día. No me gustó mucho.

Совсем не понравилось. Не моё.

Didn’t enjoy this album and I really tried listened to it twice to try and get a proper feel for it but the more I listened the more I disliked it, just not my genre.

7-minute tracks of machine gun drums, some bloke giving it twiddly diddly dee on a guitar and another one grunting is not my idea of a musical good time.

I wouldn’t mind some of this if it wasn’t for the vocal and the sheer blurgh of the second guitar. Why do the tracks have to last so long? ”The Frayed Ends of Sanity’ sums it up really.

I don't like metal sound

Sorry, da klingt eins wie das andere - gefällt mir nicht.

I thought I liked Metallica, but not this album.

Point for discussion: There is way too much metal on this list, and all of it is terrible. (Allegedly Metallica have some of the best lyrics in metal. It's a low bar.) 1.5 🌟

Awful

Too monotonous for me, the guitar/drum/bass synchronous drive overlaid by the harsh vocals was headache inducing.

I gave it a fair chance. I hoped to like it. But found it pretty monotonous

Metal ist nichts für meine Ohren(Kopfschmerzen)!

Not my style

For metal I guess this was fine. There are moments of songs like One that remind me at being over at somebody else's house in high school. But the sensation of listening to this was not good for me. I was very excited when each song ended, then I'd be excited for the next song to end, too. Some day I could introduce tiers of one stars. This might have been better than Iron Maiden? Maybe not. Either way, I look forward to not listening to them in the future.

Refused to listen.

The album a group of 14 year olds would record if you asked them to remake Spinal Tap.

Nope

super fatiguing to the ear, not a huge fan of matallica I think

Ruido del asqueroso, voz inescuchable. Este tipo de metal jamás me va a gustar, aunque le reconozco que tiene buenas bases.

Terrible album

Did not finish. Kinda interesting but not my thing.

Meh

Not my jam

Never been a metal fan.

Not my thing at all

Don't like it

Mostly metal. Big surprise. Nothing that I really liked.

Too head banging

Not for me.

Felt like a neverending guitar shredding thing. Didn't like it so much. I guess metal it's not my thang. Sorry guys

Didn’t like

Orkade int lyssna genom hela…

1.5/5 bad, has a few good tracks

Made me want to scrape my face off

Not for me. This music might be great fun in the most pit but not at home

It’s not my genre of music but I do like some Metallica. I just find the songs too long and too samey. They do show they can play in some places but then it goes back to the usual.

I ALREADY RATED THIS YOU IDIOTS

Never liked Metallica. Can’t get into the vocals.

Hard pass, no thank you.

Nope. I'm not a fan of metal anyway, but this sounds like someone forgot to reverse the RIAA equalisation curve. Tinny AF.

fav track: to live is to die least fav: most of them

p596. 1988. 1 star. The unwanted hatefuck children of Van Halen and Motorhead (Van Halen on the distaff side). Loud, tedious and totally redundant. No-one needs an album of heavy metal with each track over 5 minutes long. Remember 70s prog rock and the wankage associated with it? This is the 80s heavy metal equivalent. Dreadful, shouty noise. One star for the guitar work.

100 hz pömmpöä. Tämä ei ole niin onnistunut albumi kuin master of the puppets, vaikka ekat kappaleet antaakin toivoa. Hajoaa vähän kasaan. Ihan hyvä ei vaan maailman parhaiden albumien kontekstissa. Heh.

boooo i don’t like this album! I think it’s self explanatory why it’s just a lottttt 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️You can see talent and hear it somewhat but the voice is just what brings it low. I’m choosing between 1 and 2 not because it was good but because i’ve heard much much worse… 2/10, 1/5.

Throughout my likely-annoying and common "I really hate Metallica" ramblings over the years, I'll admit that *most* of that comes from some combination of their big "hit" years of loud songs in E minor with ridiculous growlinnnng...gUHH! vocalsss...sUHH! and my annoyance at the band in general, specifically James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich. Back in their early days they were merely this shadowy musical presence - literally never played on the radio; MTV and video shows were the only other way to publicly hear music and I'm guessing the only songs I'd ever really heard from them were a few from "Ride The Lightning" and then "One" from this album. They were just not my thing but easily avoidable back then just by making zero effort. I then happened to see them in concert on this tour and holyhell I had to walk away - literal headache. Also I suppose it's funny in retrospect that I chose to accept the now-comically-fraudulent generic stage banter from most of the big arena rock bands of the time over these guys who at the time just rubbed me completely the wrong way on and off-stage. Especially James Hetfield who always came (comes?) off as that quintessential age-stunted 16 year old asshole who is barely hanging on in high school and gets off on being a general prick to everyone in the hallways. That concert was the moment decades ago that cemented my "wow I really hate this band" opinion. So...um...hey let's revisit an old favourite! Well...it's not freaking "Unforgiven" or the now-clichéd hockey arena anthem "Enter Sandman" so at least it'll be ......... nope. This is too damn much - mostly that Hetfield's vocals are a do-not-pass-GO no-fly-zone - awful. Also the mix is shite, literally no bass whatsoever - none - what the hell - and I suppose the dry aspect is a preference and it's absolutely not mine. Besides all that, the thrash riffing - while technically very impressive - is something I just can't get through. The only part of the album that's kind of enjoyable is/are many of the mellow guitar lines on "One" The headache remains. 2/10 1 star.

The song One I could listen too fully and even did not dislike, the rest for me is all the same: stupid macho guitar music without an end. Hate heavy metal. Always did. Always will.

I decided to go into this with open ears. Some Kind of Monster out Spinal Tapped Spinal Tap so it makes it very hard to just sit back and listen to Metallica for what it is worth. As with Megadeth and N#$#$%$ D#$#%* I just don't get the point, in this instance it is mainly just funny as opposed to boring or a crime against humanity. I mean...EVERY SONG HAS A SLOW BEGINNING BEFORE THE GUITAR KICKS IN! EVERY SONG! The same er er er guitar chord sound...er er er...the same ponderous, ridiculous drumming, drumming that is trying so hard to be "like heavy dude" that it seriously sounds like the 15 year old kid next door who has stumbled onto one way to play and is going for it every Thursday afternoon in the garage. Non-existent bass, why have a bass player? Lyrics that again would be written by the high school band getting ready for the end of year talent quest. And maybe that is what is going on here, maybe the genius of this is that literally any 15 year boy from Potsdam to Panania figures they could do this, not that they can sound like Metallica, but that Metallica sounds like them!

I tried but I could not sit through an hour of this.

This album was lame as hell. I like ride the lightening, kill em all, and master of puppets, but this was terrible. The lyrics were corny and overly serious, and the instrumentals sounded flat and lifeless like they were recorded on GarageBand with stock sounds. Was not a fan.

This was a struggle to get through for me. Maybe it's because I was listening during work, but it kept throwing me out of concentration. I understand and can respect that this is an iconic album, but for me, I will not be revisiting it any time soon.

I feel bad for saying this because I've grown to like Metallica, but "...And Justice For All" should be called "...And Boredom For All." Never has metal been more unexciting.

It's been over 40 years but I still remember how I thoroughly enjoyed the first time I heard the Al Pacino character's line: "The prosecutor is not going to get that man today because I'm going to get him." The film ". . . And Justice for All" is one of my ATF. The album ". . . And Justice for All" - not so much.

Such high hopes as well. Every vocal track sounds identical. Some really great playing, but which sounds thin and tinny. Prime cuts: One, To Live Is To Die

The more metal I listen to the less I like it. But this was just boring. Endlessly repetitive.

Really did not enjoy this at all. I like the more tuneful Metallica but there’s a lot of one chord screaming here.

Meh…a lot o guitar and drums. Didn’t do anything for me then or now.

Terrible... Couldn't even finish it.

cringe

metallica😑

This kinda sucks 2 I don't enjoy this. 1 "One" is okay

His voice is pretty bad, like a kid trying to sound older than he is. Other than that I was not crazy about the songs, they weren’t that memorable and the ones that were memorable were ruined by his voice.

all sound the same - songs for teenage boys

1/5 not at all!

Metallicock

This is a bit too try-hard for my taste. Almost like a parody of heavy rock.

I knew exactly what this was going to sound like, and I wasn't disappointed. Well, actually I was very disappointed because I just find Metallica disappointing. A disappointing 1/5

I understand this band are quite popular. Fuck knows why.

Hef aldrei náð þessu bandi

Struggling to remember why I was a Metallica fan. Flat and boring. The title track isn't even that good. One is the only gem here.

repetitive, boring, miserable, hated every second.

It was typical Metallica. Fairly repetitive with occasional frenzied guitar riffs. I like some of their stuff but not really this.

Justice is served. 1 star

It really does sound like a bunch of teenagers masturbating to their guitars and drums. The shrill sound that penetrates the head doesn’t do this album any favours, either. Metallica has released one good studio album, and this one ain’t it.

May the Lord save us from high-pitched, twiddly guitar solos!

Trash

no thanks

trashcan music for trashcan people

I want to preface this with I do not enjoy heavy metal, so I will be biased in saying I did not enjoy this record. More enjoyable than heavier metal sounds, but still, was not for me. Typical progressions and sounds. Weak vocal accompaniments. Very predictable sound structure. Sonically it was fine for heavy metal.

Nope.

⚡🙄

Tien jaar geleden zou ik grote fan geweest zijn, nu niet meer. Zeker geen volledig album.

noise

Tried, but just no

full disrespect fuck that

I liked the slower songs, but most of the album was too thrashy for me

Not my thing, makes me nervous

I don't like Metallica. I've tried to.

false

без баса микс невыносим

Badly recorded garbage