well, just a poll i got the idea from reading UltraBoris's reviews on M-A. he gave master of puppets a 0%, and ranted in the other reviews how kickass and brutal all these albums are.

well for me it's Reign In Blood followed by a tie between Darkness Descends and Master of Puppets. the former is great, probably the most brutal album i'm keen on, but too mindless at times. the bass intro for "Merciless Death" kicks ass! the latter is great, metallica at their very best, but too complex, technical and too much of

Hetfield: "Let's do this bit in 29/16 time signature!"
*Lars nods head*
Cliff, Kirk: "Why not 4/4?"
Hetfield: ...

i choose RiB because it's got a good mix of melody and aggression, especially Angel of Death and Post Mortem/Raining Blood(i had the version where the last 30 seconds of PM was the beginning to Raining so i can't imagine the 2 songs separated). speaking of which what would have been the most kickass live song ever would be a Post Mortem/Raining Blood/Black Magic... but i can only dream of that

and i like the fact that RiB doesn't demand that huge attention span and sheer time to go through the whole album like MoP and DD have.

as for Peace Sells, it didn't really catch that much of my attention, except for the title track and maybe the Conjuring but other than that nothing more.