Maasai Mara
Posts: 159 From: Kenya  |
02.01.2019 - 22:35Rating: 4
The single most overrated album in the history of heavy metal. Battery and the title track are good but the rest of the album is as average as average comes. This album in essence killed Metallica and derailed what was on course to be the greatest melodic thrash acts of all time. These bastards should have dissolved Metallica after the magnificent ride the lightning and started a new band altogether to produce the garbage that began taking root here and Metallica fed us with afterwards.
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You are not metal enough until you visit Kenya. The cradle of mankind, where man learnt first to work with stones and first enjoyed the sounds produced by banging stones which later influenced metal in all its sounds and genres.
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Byners
Posts: 208 From: Brazil  |
Written by Maasai Mara on 02.01.2019 at 22:35
The single most overrated album in the history of heavy metal. Battery and the title track are good but the rest of the album is as average as average comes. This album in essence killed Metallica and derailed what was on course to be the greatest melodic thrash acts of all time. These bastards should have dissolved Metallica after the magnificent ride the lightning and started a new band altogether to produce the garbage that began taking root here and Metallica fed us with afterwards.
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Furiator
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The most overrated album ever?
I don't know, I really don't get it. I like other Metallica stuff. This often seems quite generic, honestly.
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Maco Classless
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The mighty title track alone is superior to anything released by this band afterwards.
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Crackhead Megadeth reigns supreme.
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Metal Rambo
Posts: 379 From: Finland  |
15.04.2020 - 01:38Rating: 10
I honestly also thought this album was the most overrated thing ever until I actually listened it through few times. Nowadays it's one of my favourite albums of all time. Sadly, they haven't released anything even remotely this level of brilliance since.
If I remember correctly, Flemming Rasmussen wasn't happy with the rushed release and production of Master of Puppets, so when he later worked with the band Artillery he utilized some the original plans he had for this album. But this is just my wage memory, I don't remember where I actually read it.
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gavdann
Posts: 211 From: UK  |
15.04.2020 - 12:02Rating: 10
After Iron Maiden's Piece of Mind and Deep Purple's Machine Head, Master of Puppets was the third "heavy" album I ever bought. That would have been around Feb/March '87. I was 15 and it changed my world. For the best part of six months, I listened to little else than Metallica. These days Ride & Master vie for position but usually, I say this is my favourite album of all time as it was the first.
Ride arguably contains more of their best songs but this contains it's fair share and is probably more consistent. Both are fucking classics. 10 out of 10. There should be no argument as far as I'm concerned. Anyone who disagrees is a fucking poseur or just doesn't like metal. You look at that track listing and there isn't a bad second of music on that record, let alone a bad track.
Kill Em All and Justice are almost as good as well in my view (if a little bloated in the case of Justice). I always viewed the Black album as a solid but unspectacular record but since, it's been a case of ever diminishing returns. You could make a case for the odd good song scattered among the rest of their albums but I never play them.
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Paulh
Posts: 477 From: UK  |
20.05.2020 - 14:01Rating: 10
01. Battery - 10/10
02. Master Of Puppets - 10/10
03. The Thing That Should Not Be - 10/10
04. Welcome Home (Sanitarium) - 10/10
05. Disposable Heroes - 10/10
06. Leper Messiah - 10/10
07. Orion - 10/10
08. Damage, Inc. - 10/10
Overall: 10/10
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Cynic Metalhead Nasha Vich Paisa
Posts: 6254 From: India  |
03.08.2020 - 08:28Rating: 8
This album is the Nirvana "Smells like Teen Spirit" of heavy metal.
It killed heavy metal.
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gavdann
Posts: 211 From: UK  |
03.08.2020 - 12:16Rating: 10
Written by Cynic Metalhead on 03.08.2020 at 08:28
This album is the Nirvana "Smells like Teen Spirit" of heavy metal.
It killed heavy metal.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha
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Metal Rambo
Posts: 379 From: Finland  |
03.08.2020 - 13:01Rating: 10
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You've got a lot of guts. Let's see what they look like.
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nikarg Mod
Posts: 3865 From: Greece  |
nikargModPosts: 3865 From: Greece 
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Jope of Steele
Posts: 2209 From: Finland  |
05.08.2020 - 00:03Rating: 7
01. Battery - 10/10 (killer)
02. Master Of Puppets - 8/10 (minus two points for the slow part)
03. The Thing That Should Not Be - 5/10 (boring)
04. Welcome Home (Sanitarium) - 9/10 (great, could be thrashier)
05. Disposable Heroes - 6/10 (nothing special, not bad either)
06. Leper Messiah - 5/10 (eh)
07. Orion - 6/10 (starts good, drags later)
08. Damage, Inc. - 10/10 (another killer)
Overall: 7,375/10
Additional comments: One of the most overrated metal albums the world has ever seen, in my opinion. I cannot vote it very low though because there's some good songs to it. I can see the band going somewhat astray already on this album, something that more people acknowledge happening on later albums; it is in the overly long songs IMO; more thrash or some more interesting songwriting is needed. Anyway, I don't think this album killed metal: maybe it wasn't the best possible influence for the copycats, but whatever (grunge?) killed thrash came from outside rather inside of the genre.
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Freedom is a state of mind-not freedom from something but a sense of freedom, a freedom to doubt and question all and therefore so intense, active and vigorous that it throws away every form of dependence, slavery, conformity and acceptance-J Krishnamurti
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Jope of Steele
Posts: 2209 From: Finland  |
05.08.2020 - 00:16Rating: 7
Written by gavdann on 15.04.2020 at 12:02
Ride arguably contains more of their best songs but this contains it's fair share and is probably more consistent. Both are fucking classics. 10 out of 10. There should be no argument as far as I'm concerned. Anyone who disagrees is a fucking poseur or just doesn't like metal. You look at that track listing and there isn't a bad second of music on that record, let alone a bad track.
I disagree, and am I poser LMAO? Other possibility is to say whoever agrees with you has either heard only two songs from MoP (=poser) or is being unrealistic
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Freedom is a state of mind-not freedom from something but a sense of freedom, a freedom to doubt and question all and therefore so intense, active and vigorous that it throws away every form of dependence, slavery, conformity and acceptance-J Krishnamurti
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gavdann
Posts: 211 From: UK  |
05.08.2020 - 11:35Rating: 10
Written by Jope of Steele on 05.08.2020 at 00:16
Written by gavdann on 15.04.2020 at 12:02
Ride arguably contains more of their best songs but this contains it's fair share and is probably more consistent. Both are fucking classics. 10 out of 10. There should be no argument as far as I'm concerned. Anyone who disagrees is a fucking poseur or just doesn't like metal. You look at that track listing and there isn't a bad second of music on that record, let alone a bad track.
I disagree, and am I poser LMAO? Other possibility is to say whoever agrees with you has either heard only two songs from MoP (=poser) or is being unrealistic 
How you can say Disposable Heroes and Leper Messiah are "Nothing special" or "eh" is beyond me.
Then again, I fucking despise Manowar so we're never going to agree!
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Jope of Steele
Posts: 2209 From: Finland  |
06.08.2020 - 13:38Rating: 7
Written by gavdann on 05.08.2020 at 11:35
How you can say Disposable Heroes and Leper Messiah are "Nothing special" or "eh" is beyond me.
Then again, I fucking despise Manowar so we're never going to agree! 
I haven't seen anyone saying that Disposable Heroes and Leper Messiah are masterpiece songs or even best from this album. Of course fanboys will say that these songs are couple of points better than what I say, but if you translate their evaluation to my scoring -- aka minus the fanboy bias -- it will match almost perfectly: just lower 2-3 points from both songs
I'm not a Manowar advocate, look more closely  -- I agree with you about Ride The Lighting though
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Freedom is a state of mind-not freedom from something but a sense of freedom, a freedom to doubt and question all and therefore so intense, active and vigorous that it throws away every form of dependence, slavery, conformity and acceptance-J Krishnamurti
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gavdann
Posts: 211 From: UK  |
12.08.2020 - 13:02Rating: 10
Written by Jope of Steele on 06.08.2020 at 13:38
I haven't seen anyone saying that Disposable Heroes and Leper Messiah are masterpiece songs or even best from this album.
Disposable Heroes is a stone walled classic in my opinion. It might not be THE best on MoP but it's in my top 3 or 4. And although not many would claim Leper Messiah is one of Metallica's best tunes, as we're comparing with RtL it is better than "Escape"! It's a proper head banger.
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doez Hallucigenia
Posts: 192 From: France  |
28.10.2020 - 21:26Rating: 7
doezHallucigeniaPosts: 192 From: France 
It's alright I guess, never been too big on them and this album certainly doesn't help, I'd put it in the most overrated albums of all time alongside judas priest's painkiller. I still like most track and definitely enjoy listening to it but it's not really what I'd call a masterpiece, there's no song I particularly love so yeah I'd put it somewhere along the lines of a 6 or a 7
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Boxcar Willy yr a kook
Posts: 7981 From: Canada  |
Metallica's writing style annoys the shit out of me.
Banger thrash song for 3-4 minutes, sounds good? SYYYYYYKE, let's add 4 more minutes of guitar noodling for no reason.
Repeat for 40 minutes.
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Jope of Steele
Posts: 2209 From: Finland  |
29.10.2020 - 15:51Rating: 7
Written by doez on 28.10.2020 at 21:26
I'd put it in the most overrated albums of all time alongside judas priest's painkiller.
Can't agree about Painkiller, it's pretty amazing album really. Has some authority in metal started brainwashing people to hate it  Puppet's being overrated I agree and the another one would be Countdown to Extinction by Megadave.
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Freedom is a state of mind-not freedom from something but a sense of freedom, a freedom to doubt and question all and therefore so intense, active and vigorous that it throws away every form of dependence, slavery, conformity and acceptance-J Krishnamurti
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doez Hallucigenia
Posts: 192 From: France  |
29.10.2020 - 16:28Rating: 7
doezHallucigeniaPosts: 192 From: France 
Written by Jope of Steele on 29.10.2020 at 15:51
Written by doez on 28.10.2020 at 21:26
I'd put it in the most overrated albums of all time alongside judas priest's painkiller.
Has some authority in metal started brainwashing people to hate it
I don't really watch a lot in terms of metal content on YouTube and other social medias, and pretty much everyone I know loves this album, I just listened to it a few times and found it immensely boring. And also I wholeheartedly agree with countdown to extinction being overrated, truly not the greatest megadeth album and a big letdown from rust in peace
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JavierPaper
Posts: 68  |
25.12.2020 - 01:54Rating: 10
It's Master of Puppets, one of the best albums of heavy metal
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"Whoever fights mosters
should see to it that
In the process he does not
become a monster
And when you look long into the abyss,
the abyss also looks into you."
-Frederik Wilhelm Nietzche
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JavierPaper
Posts: 68  |
25.12.2020 - 01:58Rating: 10
Battery, Master of puppets, Orion = Classics
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"Whoever fights mosters
should see to it that
In the process he does not
become a monster
And when you look long into the abyss,
the abyss also looks into you."
-Frederik Wilhelm Nietzche
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