Master Of Puppets The Best Metal Album Ever?

darrenw5O94

Is Metallica's Master of Puppets the #1 Metal album of all time?

Mental Mickey

Absolute bona fide classic. Bound to be a contentious issue though.....!?

Albert_Camus

God no

me_irl

Back when Metallica had balls and were good? Yes.
"Best Metal Album Ever"? No.

But it's all subjective.

Albert_Camus

me_irl wrote: »

Back when Metallica had balls and were good? Yes.

I dunno, Reign in Blood and Peace Sells released around that time, and that's without looking too deep into this.

But as you say, all subjective.

darrenw5O94

I am interested to see the poll results though

Skommando

they are indeed masters of puppets

Brass_Eye

Nah, It's a classic album no doubt but I'd probably go with Sabbath's first album for #1.

Anesthetize

There needs to be a maybe option. It's one of the best but not my favourite metal album of all time. Some albums that I would chose over it would be Blood Fire Death by Bathory, Reign in Blood by Slayer, Dopethrone by Electric Wizard, and Powerslave by Iron Maiden.

darrenw5O94

Anesthetize wrote: »

There needs to be a maybe option. It's one of the best but not my favourite metal album of all time. Some albums that I would chose over it would be Blood Fire Death by Bathory, Reign in Blood by Slayer, Dopethrone by Electric Wizard, and Powerslave by Iron Maiden.

Can i edit the poll to include a maybe option?

lertsnim

I love Master of Puppets but think Ride The Lightning is better. Reign In Blood is my favourite metal album.

jacksie66

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Degag

Very difficult to say if one album is definitively the best album of all time. Superb album, but like the previous poster, my favourite is Justice - there is no weak song on it at all.

melekalikimaka

Babymetal - BabyMetal

<gets coat>

judeboy101

Reign in blood. When the world ends this will be its soundtrack.

happyoutscan

I love it but nope.

Blackie Grey

Nah the best metal album of all time is let there be rock by acdc-puppets be metallicas best album allright

Pawwed Rig

Anesthetize wrote: »

There needs to be a maybe option. It's one of the best but not my favourite metal album of all time. Some albums that I would chose over it would be Blood Fire Death by Bathory, Reign in Blood by Slayer, Dopethrone by Electric Wizard, and Powerslave by Iron Maiden.

Is that not No then?

Anesthetize

Pawwed Rig wrote: »

Is that not No then?

It's an indefinite no

blastman

I've always preferred Ride The Lightning, although MOP is a bloody good album....

DrumSteve

Reign in Blood.

Always.

DrumSteve

Blackie Grey wrote: »

Nah the best metal album of all time is let there be rock by acdc-puppets be metallicas best album allright

Surely that would be a rock album? I mean, it says it in the title.

King George VI

Greatest album ever tbh.

Wrongway1985

Other bands aside personally my favourite Metallica album isn't MOP it's Ride the Lightning so straight away the answer has to be no.

Even if they aren't personally my favourite metal band if the question was are Metallica the biggest metal band ever I think it's easy to agree there alight.

BACK TO THE FRONT!

rob316

That and Reign in Blood are the best IMO, then RTL and Cowboys from Hell would be other favorites of mine.

Okon

No, that award goes to Ride the Lightning... but it's close!

darrenw5O94

happyoutscan wrote: »

I love it but nope.

What is?

J Mysterio

I prefer the Black Album.

Rumpy Pumpy

I'm a casual listener to metal, and find much of the music and associated lifestyle to be intolerable. That said, Justice is a magnificent body of music. It's a talented bunch of musicians at the height of their drug intake and musical powers. It's very impressive.

darrenw5O94

Rumpy Pumpy wrote: »

I'm a casual listener to metal, and find much of the music and associated lifestyle to be intolerable. That said, Justice is a magnificent body of music. It's a talented bunch of musicians at the height of their drug intake and musical powers. It's very impressive.

Always assumed Metallica were drug free

J Mysterio

darrenw5O94 wrote: »

Always assumed Metallica were drug free

Watch the Some Kind of Monster documentary. Its very good, but it also shows how ****in different they became. Hetfield in particular is very straight these days.

They used to be pretty hardcore.

Degag

darrenw5O94 wrote: »

Always assumed Metallica were drug free

Lars is probably lucky to have a nose left from the amount of coke he alledgedly ingested

Angron

MOP is, I think, the best Metallica album, but it isn't the best metal album of all time. For me I think the two that strike me as the best are Scream Bloody Gore by Death, or Black Metal by Venom. They aren't my favourite albums of all time, but they were pioneers of two genres that I love, death metal and black metal.

ROY RACE

DrumSteve wrote: »

Surely that would be a rock album? I mean, it says it in the title.

So your saying acdc aint metal :P

ROY RACE

blastman wrote: »

I've always preferred Ride The Lightning, although MOP is a bloody good album....

No way Justice for all is better than ride the lightning and mop is better than ride the lightning

Anesthetize

ROY RACE wrote: »

So your saying acdc aint metal :P

It's easy to think of AC/DC as a hard rock band in this day and age, considering how metal evolved since the late 70's.

Oasis1974

darrenw5O94 wrote: »

Always assumed Metallica were drug free

Lars Ulrich said he used to take coke to keep himself going at parties and such which i was surprised to read always thought it was booze with them.

Putt it there

Reign in blood head and shoulders above everything else . A masterpiece . Reinvented the direction of metal forever .

cournioni

Not even Metallica's best album.

Seth Brundle

It depends on what you are considering when looking for a best album: best musically, best technically, best in terms of its impact and effect and so on.
Others (as well as the few already mentioned earlier e.g. Reign In Blood and Peace Sells) that could be considered are:
Possessed Seven Churches
Iron Maiden TNOTB
Bathory Under the Sign of the Black Mark
Motorhead Any early stuff
Judas Priest British Steel