Submitted by chelseaisop t3_yet69g in Music
I feel like master of puppets doesn't qualify as metal and is instead just used by guitar beginners who want to play 'metal'. Metalica overall for me doesn't qualify as a metal band rather just being a band which makes an album on the genre which is popular at that time. I'd rather listen to judas priest or Pantera if I want to hear some metal. Opinions?
but a very basic one at that
Master of Puppets is a brilliant album.
yep certainly but im just saying a very basic metal album
its like eminem getting into the rock nd roll hall of fame
Obviously a very good rapper but certainly very out of place
> I feel like master of puppets doesn't qualify as metal
Lol what? No, it is definitely a metal album.
IMO you have to take into account the times these albums were made. Metallica may not have invented metal but they changed it (one can argue if they changed it for better or worse). When Master of Puppets was released it was heavy metal and it remains a classic metal album in my mind. They’re later stuff, everything after and justice…goes pretty main stream. The video for One put them over in the mtv pop world and changed how Metallica was perceived, how they acted, and how they wrote music.
Saying it isn't a metal record is like holding an orange, looking at it, smelling it, tasting it, and saying "Nope, that's definitely an old penny I just found on the ground".
bro what i just said ok
good point
If Metallica don't count as metal then Miles Davis doesn't count as Jazz and Dolly Parten doesn't count as Country. Get outta here.
It's not metal, it's thrash metal
your opinion and reasoning are bad and you should feel bad.
think before you type before you post bullshit.
Mop is the best metal record of all time imo. Not. One. Skip.
No, but what you're saying is the same as calling Shakespeare, The Beatles, or any other seminal groups cliché simply because many people have used their work as a blueprint over the years. Just take the L.
You must be trolling. As a metalhead kid from the 80s who grew up on Priest, Maiden, AC/DC... I can tell you you are 100% wrong. Metallica is metal. They were so metal that when they first came out, it was scary to listen to them, like terrifyingly exciting. And that's a key component of metal. Now you could argue their Black Album is Hard Rock not metal, but that's about it. But Master Of Puppets is a heavy metal masterpiece. Full stop.
Show me an intermediate guitar player who can play the entire song down stroked like James plays it. Beginners can’t even get past the intro riff because the amount of required down stroking kills their arm. If a song has so much down stroking in it that even intermediate players still can’t play it properly, then that in itself is metal.
HawkWestAU t1_itzqmc9 wrote
Metallica from Kill ‘em All up to …And Justice for All were Thrash Metal, from Metallica in 1991 up to now I’d class as Hard Rock, Heavy Metal.
Pantera, used to be considered Glam Metal, many people think Cowboys from Hell is their first album but it isn’t, it’s Metal Magic from 1983, they released another 3 I think before Cowboys from Hell.
Master of Puppets is definitely a Metal album.