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The Top 10 Greatest Metallica Songs From the 1980s

The 10 Greatest Metallica songs from the 1980s, the decade from which they exploded

Within the 1980s, Metallica formed, invented thrash metal, transcended it, grew to become the most important cult band on the earth, lost their legendary bass player Cliff Burton in an on-tour road accident, and battled on with out him. Alongside the best way they made a few of the best heavy metal music of all time. Right here, in ascending order, are their ten greatest songs from that turbulent decade.

10. One (1988)
Of the 4 albums that Metallica made within the 1980s, the final of them – … And Justice For All – was the toughest to like. The band’s first album with out Cliff Burton proved controversial for its production, during which the bass taking part in of Burton’s successor Jason Newsted was barely audible. And in locations the music was a bit of too overwrought, notably on the near-ten-minute title track. However there have been some nice songs on the album: the slow-pounding Harvester Of Sorrow, the ferocious Blackened, and most well-known of all, One. An anti-war protest track of unremitting bleakness, with sombre atmospherics leading as much as an explosive climax of machine-gun staccato riffing, it was additionally the first Metallica song for which a video was created, incorporating footage from the 1971 film Johnny Got His Gun – a video as soon as seen, by no means forgotten.

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9. Whiplash (1983)
Metallica’s debut Kill ’Em All was the primary thrash metal album, and Whiplash was the track that outlined a brand new genre. Delivered at approximately 200 beats per minute, it was the sound of pure fury, with fantastically gonzoid lyrics that celebrated the bond between band and viewers: “In a frenzied insanity/Along with your leather-based and your spikes/Heads are bobbing throughout/It’s hot as hell tonight.”

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