Had only listened to Master of Puppets off this album. Was very impressed with Battery. The sound has definitely aged, but the sound itself is timeless. This was a nice listen because I haven’t listened to Metallica in a long time, but every time I listen to them, I remember how easily it wears on me. Not bad music, I can just only take so much of them. It starts to sound the same after a while. Battery surprised me. It was a fantastic start to a classic metal album, leading into the cliche 80s Metallica. The classical sounding acoustic guitar is a great dichotomy to the chainsaw electric guitar. Did Metallica coin that? Or did Sabbath et al make it popular before them? Either way, great song off a genre-defining album. Oh, and Orion? Great instrumental. I learned that it’s one of the only Metallica instrumentals. If you were to only listen to this one song from their whole catalog, you’d get a damn good idea of who they are as a band.
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