Is Master of Puppets the greatest metal album ever

Negoba wrote: I'd vote for Mindcrime.   And I played in a Metallica cover band for several years. Justice has the more prog-gy songs (I love Harvester of Sorrow), but I suppose Puppets is the best overall Metallica album. Their three disc reign was pretty impressive.   It depends what kind of metal you're talking about too. Ozzy's Randy Rhoads Tribute album is phenomenal. Whitesnake 1987 is a great album.  Then of course there's Appetite and Slippery When Wet, which may not be your cup of tea but hit their respective targets dead center. Gretchen Goes to Nebraska, FNM's Real Thing, and Extreme II all deserve mention too.   Mindcrime for me.

Three disc reign? I would say it's more like 4 if you're not including Kill Em All.

MovingPictures07 wrote: No. Scenes from a Memory is.

SFAM is my favorite album of all time currently, but I'm not sure to what extent I would call it a metal album...

I love this album to death, but I like Ride The Lightning better to be honest. And I can't say that either is my #1 album, and I don't even know if I could name my favorite metal album. 

progrocker2244 wrote: [QUOTE=lazland] I'm assuming that means you don't like prog metal, because almost all prog metal bands were influenced from thrash.

Master of Puppets sucks imo (the drumming is terrible)

Lots of great metal albums out there....so it would be very difficult to say which is the greatest...Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, Heaven and Hell, the first Symphony X album, The Spectre Within, Awake, IAW, SFAM, Symphony X's V, Barry Manilow's Greatest Hits (how did that get in there? ), and Master of Puppets certainly ranks up there, although my favorite Metallica album has always been Justice. 

"Puppets" is a great album but the best album ever made is Led Zeppelin 4

If anything, I think the 90s produced some of the best quality metal albums of all time, hence why I don't think MoP is the best metal album ever.
A lot of the 90s death metal scene was seriously slammin' IMHO, some of it better than anything ever made in the 80s.
Hell, even a few thrash standouts in the 90s, Rust In Peace immediately springing to mind.
Even though the 80s is known as the decade of thrash metal and Rust In Peace is a 90s release, I think it's superior to any thrash album from the 80s.


Edited by HughesJB4 - January 30 2009 at 01:35

mystic fred wrote: HughesJB4 wrote: mystic fred wrote: "Puppets" is a great album but the best album ever made is Led Zeppelin 4     The topic is about the greatest metal album dude. Led Zep IV ain't really metal (at least, not in my opinion, it's hard rock/heavy rock/heavy blues rock).     it may not be metal but it's solid gold

Yes, but your post should be in General Music Discussions, not in a thread asking "Is MoP the best metal album ever?"

progrocker2244 wrote: lazland wrote: I hate thrash almost as much as I hated most punk.Black Sabbath Heaven & Hell is up there, but I would go for Rainbow Rising - an utter classic of heavy rock. I'm assuming that means you don't like prog metal, because almost all prog metal bands were influenced from thrash.

where did you get that?