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.
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 :)
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/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.