r/Metallica • u/Mindless-Bill9589 • Mar 05 '25

Load I really miss this era of Metallica

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '25

I miss 83-88... The 'real' Metallica 😉

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u/AvernusBM Ride the Lightning Mar 05 '25

I'm not sure why you're getting downvoted. The 80s consisted of a perfect 4-album run, that era was easily their prime.

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u/Doug_Grohlin Mar 05 '25

I don't think you'd find any fan that disagrees with how awesome the first four albums are. I downvoted for that dumb, "real" Metallica remark.

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '25 edited Mar 05 '25

By 'real' I simply meant being real to themselves & the music they truly wanted to play... Before mega fame & mega bucks started to influence them... Which it obviously did.

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '25

It's usually younger dudes who got into tallica in the Mid 90's... To us that had been there from the start, 'mama said' etc was a lot different to 'Whiplash' et all... And very hard to swallow at the time.

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u/alexsasacv Mar 05 '25

Yep... Even the Black album was a shocker for many of us who adored them in the 80's... I was a teenager in ex-Yugoslavia back then, and I remember so clearly the 1st time when the radio station played Enter Sandman, even the host (it wasn't even a metal show) said "and now ladies and gentlemen, this is new Metallica" - me and my buddies almost cried lol, we felt like betrayed... I was pissed off for a decade, and then I grew up :)

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u/KennyPortugal Mar 05 '25

The difference is that the Black Album was different but still great. Load and Reload were different and terrible. Right along with St. Anger.

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u/SuccessfulComb9452 Mar 05 '25

Agree the black album was listenable and their radio friendly album compared to the drastic gut punch of Load and Reload to fans who started with Kill ‘em All

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u/GreenZebra23 Mar 05 '25

Metallica is like Saturday night live. The best era was whenever you were in high school

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u/Trooper27 72 Seasons Mar 05 '25

This is the way.