Metallica sends over 1.6 million Russians into a frenzy

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dare i say i like LOAD more than The Black Album???

idk, its close... BA was just pounded into our brains so much by MTV at the time.

Justice is still the GOAT IMO, with MoP a close 2nd

[Mike Tyson77]

1 Master of Puppets
2 And Justice for for all
3 Ride the Lightning
4 Black
5 Reload
6 Load
7 Garage inc
8 Kill em all
9 S&M
10 the last one they put out
11 St Anger(which is crap)

[talip bin osman]

dare i say i like LOAD more than The Black Album???

idk, its close... BA was just pounded into our brains so much by MTV at the time.

Justice is still the GOAT IMO, with MoP a close 2nd

"justice" was awesome... complex and varied...

but there is a bothering flaw about it... the bass was too muted... i think they wont do such thing if cliff burton was still the bass player on that album...

[John Barron]

Metallica sends over 1.6 million Russians into a frenzy

metallica did what this man does every day
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[Russian Crushin]

I wonder how many people died that day

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"justice" was awesome... complex and varied...

but there is a bothering flaw about it... the bass was too muted... i think they wont do such thing if cliff burton was still the bass player on that album...

good chance youre right, and it was newstead's first album right? so i can understand if he was a little timid...

the two songs burton played on (justice and to live is to die) are two of my all time faves

dyers eve is pretty righteous itself though!!!!

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Metallica - ...and Justice for All

"...And Justice for All" is the second track on Metallica's 1988 album ...And Justice for All.

The lyrics depict a bleak and corrupt legal system in which "Lady Justice" is "****d", the "halls of justice" are "painted green", and "seeking no truth, winning is all."

The opening "clean" sound represents a false truth that everything is going fine and that the system is free of any problems then the heavy sounds that appear represent the truth leaking out or building up; that in-fact the system is terribly corrupt and defiled. This continues on at the beginning of the song, until the heavy sound overpowers the "clean" sound, representing the truth of what is going on. Then, around half way through the song the "clean" sound comes back and plays alongside the heavy sound. This is meant to show the corrupt people trying to convince others that the system is actually fine and that everything is okay, but the heavy sound in the background is meant to show that the false truth and cold reality are competing together and that it can't work that way (one must win). Then the heavy sound prevails again and it continues like that for the rest of the song.

It is Metallica's fourth longest song, clocking in at 9:44 minutes. Only the instrumental song "To Live Is to Die" at 9:48 , the song "The Outlaw Torn" at 9:52, and "Mercyful Fate" (a cover medley of songs by the band Mercyful Fate) at 11:11 are longer.

Easily also one of the group's most complex songs, "...And Justice for All" runs the gamut from clean, melodic guitars to distorted thrash rhythms, and boasts many tempo and mood changes. Ironically, it is the slow, mid-section of the track that actually features predominant bass guitar, a stark contradiction to the rest of the album.

Due to its complexity, the song was (at least until Sick of the Studio '07) only performed live by the band during their 1988 Damaged Justice world tour in support of the album. As lead guitarist Kirk Hammett would later say in SoWhat! magazine, "'Justice' was a bit much for me. I couldn't stand watching the front row start to yawn by the eight or ninth minute."

During the Madly In Anger With The World and Escape from the Studio '06 tours, Metallica would often tease the fans by playing parts of the song, with James usually saying nobody wants to hear the song. It remained to be seen whether Metallica would ever play the song in its entirety, or play it on a medley, which was the case during the Wherever We May Roam/Nowhere Else To Roam Tours in 1991-1993. Then on June 28, 2007, Metallica played "...And Justice For All" for the first time since October 1989, nearly 18 years ago, in Lisbon, Portugal on the first show of the Sick of the Studio '07 Tour. It was also played on their headlining set at the new Wembley Stadium on July 8, on July 10 on Valle Hovin in Norway, at Stockholms Stadion on July 12 and at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium on July 15.


...AND JUSTICE FOR ALL

Halls of justice painted green
Money talking
Power wolves beset your door
Hear them stalking
Soon you'll please their appetite
They devour
Hammer of justice crushes you
Overpower

The ultimate in vanity
Exploiting their supremacy
I can't believe the things you say
I can't believe, I can't believe the price you pay
Nothing can save you

Justice is lost
Justice is ****d
Justice is gone
Pulling your strings
Justice is done
Seeking no truth
Winning is all
Find it so grim, so true, so real

Apathy their stepping stone
So unfeeling
Hidden deep animosity
So deceiving
Through your eyes their light burns
Hoping to find
Inquisition sinking you
With prying minds

The ultimate in vanity
Exploiting their supremacy
I can't believe the things you say
I can't believe, I can't believe the price you pay
Nothing can save you
Justice is lost
Justice is ****d
Justice is gone
Pulling your strings
Justice is done
Seeking no truth
Winning is all
Find it so grim, so true, so real

Lady Justice has been ****d
Truth assassin
Rolls of red tape seal your lips
Now you're done in

Their money tips her scales again
Make your deal
Just what is truth, I cannot tell
Cannot feel

The ultimate in vanity
Exploiting their supremacy
I can't believe the things you say
I can't believe, I can't believe the price we pay
Nothing can save us

Justice is lost
Justice is ****d
Justice is gone
Pulling your strings
Justice is done
Seeking no truth
Winning is all
Find it so grim, so true, so real

Seeking no truth
Winning is all
Find it so grim, so true, so real

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play it at my funeral!

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When a man lies, he murders some part of the world. These are the pale deaths which men miscall their lives. All this I cannot bear to witness any longer. Cannot the Kingdom of Salvation take me home?