It is, then, by definition, the most damaging, counterproductive, and overrated LP ever to be released.
It brought heavy metal to its knees, and castrated it mightily. This album is the Nirvana "Smells like Teen Spirit" of heavy metal. unfortunately, the world caught on to THIS album, this expression of vapidity, and decided that THIS was the way to go. They are out of Mustaine riffs, and Hetfield isn't exactly the smartest, cleverest cookie in the box, and he's forced to scramble and improvise, so out comes one bashing thrasher, a few more assorted riffs here and there, and then all kinds of half-assed and half-baked ideas that pretty much do not belong in Heavy Metal, the land of the free, the home of the brave.
At this point, you can see the impending death - not just bodily, but creative as well. It's not even as bad as the album that would follow it, And Justice for All, and when all is said and done, it pretty much sums up the averageness of the thrash movement perfectly.įirst off, it is where shit really starts to fall apart for Metallica as a band. It's certainly not as bad as Saint Anger, proud owner of a former record-low "3%" rating. Now, on a strictly musical level, I would give this album a 62 or so. What in Satan's name could this album have done to deserve such a low rating? It pretty much singlehandedly ENDED heavy metal, that's what. The zero implies the absolute nadir of musicality, a level that can only be dreamt of by mere mortals as Fred Durst and your blender. Mixed at Amigo Studios in North Hollywood, California.It takes some DAMN GOOD reasoning to give this album such a low rating. Recorded from September to December, 1985 at Sweet Silence Studios in Copenhagen, Denmark. Selected in 2015 by the Library of Congress to be preserved in the National Recording Registry for being 'culturally, historically or aesthetically significant' - the first metal album to be bestowed this. The swelling bass intro to "Damage, Inc." is based on a Johann Sebastian Bach piece, titled "Come, Sweet Death". Its title is a line from the novella "At the mountains of madness". "The Thing That Should Not Be" draws on H.P. Otherwise, there aren't any 'shits', 'fucks', 'pisses', 'cunts', 'motherfuckers', or 'cocksuckers' anywhere on this record." The album's central themes are dishonesty and deception.Īs a reaction to the PMRC language warning labels, Metallica put a sticker in the shape of a stop sign on early pressings of this album that read: "The only track you probably won't want to play is 'Damage, Inc.' due to the multiple uses of the infamous 'F' word.
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