Metal Hammer: The 50 best Metallica songs (2019)

[Pierre]

That's not a repost I hope? I know Louder have been unearthing some old lists recently.

https://www.loudersound.com/features/th ... f-all-time

1 | Master of Puppets | 1986
2 | One | 1988
3 | Fade to Black | 1984
4 | For Whom the Bell Tolls | 1984
5 | Creeping Death | 1984
6 | Orion | 1986
7 | Blackened | 1988
8 | Welcome Home (Sanitarium) | 1986
9 | Battery | 1986
10 | Enter Sandman | 1991
11 | Nothing Else Matters | 1991
12 | Seek & Destroy | 1983
13 | The Unforgiven | 1991
14 | Ride the Lightning | 1984
15 | The Four Horsemen | 1983
16 | Sad But True | 1991
17 | ...And Justice for All | 1988
18 | Disposable Heroes | 1986
19 | Wherever I May Roam | 1991
20 | Harvester of Sorrow | 1988
21 | Whiplash | 1983
22 | Damage, Inc. | 1986
23 | Dyers Eve | 1988
24 | The Call of Ktulu | 1984
25 | Fight Fire with Fire | 1984
26 | Whiskey in the Jar | 1998
27 | The Unforgiven II | 1997
28 | To Live Is to Die | 1988
29 | Leper Messiah | 1986
30 | Spit Out the Bone | 2016
31 | The Day That Never Comes | 2008
32 | The Frayed Ends of Sanity | 1988
33 | The Shortest Straw | 1988
34 | Until It Sleeps | 1996
35 | Fuel | 1997
36 | Hit the Lights | 1983
37 | The Thing That Should Not Be | 1986
38 | Turn the Page | 1998
39 | Motorbreath | 1983
40 | The Memory Remains | 1997
41 | My Friend of Misery | 1991
42 | Am I Evil? | 1998
43 | Bleeding Me | 1996
44 | The Unforgiven III | 2008
45 | Moth Into Flame | 2016
46 | Trapped Under Ice | 1984
47 | All Nightmare Long | 2008
48 | St. Anger | 2003
49 | Metal Militia | 1983
50 | Of Wolf and Man | 1991

[StevieFan13]

Invalid for having St. Anger on it

[Krurze]

Invalid for not having St. Anger in the top ten

[Pierre]

I've personally never been fond of St. Anger's production style. The choice to suppress completely the guitar solos is IMO the opposite of the essence of Metallica's music. It was a bizarre way to try to cater to the nu metal crowd. Then again, I'm not a fond of ...And Justice for All's production style either, which created a more interesting sound but is disrespectful of the rhythm section's work. To each their own I guess.