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I truly feel that their first four albums are their best and will never be topped. Just because Metallica changed their style doesn't make this album bad. If any other band would've made this album, everyone would've loved it. There is no denying that musically, this is their best album. I'm not sure how that makes them mainstream sellouts in any way. People hate this album just because it's overrated and it sold the most out of any other Metallica album. I'll admit, it's overrated in the sense that it's their most popular album but how people hate it for that reason I don't know. People should admit this album is a classic, but they don't want to because the cool thing to do is hate it.

This is still my favorite 'Tally album. I can't stand all the "oh they sold out" blah blah blah. They made a great album - get over it! I wish they'd go back in this direction.

My record skips on every song and it is not because of my record player. The people who cut this new version did not do a good job. It is brand new, but comes warped. Better off to buy an original off of ebay and pay the extra $$$$. I do not recommend this to anyone.

Pros: It's Metallica -- IN SURROUND SOUND! Cons: No extras, unless you count an ad for one of their DVDs. The Bottom Line: If you are a Metallica fan, and you own a player compatible with DVD-Audio, GO BUY THIS! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Original 02/04/05 review: Metallica has been quite busy over the past decade releasing a lot of studio albums, a few live albums, several concert DVDs and now a DVD -Audio. The first album that Metallica chose to release as DVD - Audio is the already very well produced self titled album, also known by Metallica fans as "the Black Album". Barely visible on the matte black cover in a dark grey is the band's logo and a "Don't Tread on Me" snake. I've always liked Metallica and view them as a "thinking persons" heavy metal band. This review will focus on the sound quality of the DVD-Audio rather than the album itself. Metallica albums have been reviewed rather heavily as the band has gained and/or lost fans as they have grown (or "sold out"). I will state that I am one of the fans who believe that they have grown. That said, how does an already well done album sound in the new DVD-Audio format? Let me start with a description of my favorite two tracks on the album as they sound in surround! The album opens with the song "Enter Sandman". The opening guitar chords of the song float in the center of the room, then a few guitar riffs come in from the rear left and the rear right surround speakers. Then Lars drums boom from the front center, and bass guitar fills the rear. You will want a good center channel speaker for this DVD-Audio, because Urich's drums are consistently located front and center of the sound stage. The opening vocals of the song burst in from center stage, and choruses just seem to float into the whole sound field. The Lord's prayer is recited in the rear left channel and the child repeats the prayer in the rear right channel, as the drums and bass stay center stage. Vocals then move around a bit, sometimes coming in front left or right, other times rear left or right. Overall, Metallica really takes advantage of the full surround sound stage. The right and left rear channels are very actively used, and not just as ambient fill. On my favorite Metallica song "Unforgiven", the opening guitars (reminicent of the Sergio Leone spaghetti westerns) come in center front and expand to the full center stage. Then Lars drums come in solid center front and the vocals seem to emerge from the center of the room. The choruses seem to fill the entire sound field. The rear right and left channels occasionally burst into life with a guitar riff. Similar surround effects were used throughout the album. Mostly, the drums and lead vocals would stay in center stage, but backing vocals and choruses would move around or literally surround you. Guitars and bass would often come in from the rear channels. Metallica does all of this in a way that sounds like a natural use of the surround sound and it never comes out as gimmicky or forced. By moving the instruments into six channels instead of two, I gained a greater appreciation of how well produced this album is. The orchestral work on "Nothing Else Matters" for example, takes on a clarity I had never really noticed in the stereo version. The Lord's prayer also gains a new depth when it is separated away from the heavy drums and bass. On the songs with melodic guitar solos, the guitar work clearly stands out in greater depth than it did in the stereo mix. You can hear the notes resonate! The Advanced Resolution Surround Sound mix is only playable on equipment designed to play DVD-Audio. The DVD-Audio also has an advanced resolution stereo track (for DVD-Audio only) and a 5.1 Dolby Digital mix for use in any DVD player. I didn't notice much improvement on the stereo mix, but this is not a criticism of the DVD-Audio, its more of a compliment of the original CD. Metallica was very light on the bonus features with this disc! A "video" is included which is nothing more than a teaser trailer for an upcoming video by them about the "Making of the Black Album". You get to hear Urich declare that the black album is their "Dark Side of the Moon", and a few bits about how hard it was to produce, but to get the full story, you need to wait for the "Making of", because its just an advertisement! Although Lyrics are included, a photo gallery is not. I would have also liked to see at least a couple music videos thrown in, but none are. Since DVD-Audio cannot be copied and distributed on the internet, I am positive that Lars Urich will release more of Metallica's albums in this format. Based on the sound of the black album, I think thats great! If you are a Metallica fan, and have DVD-Audio and surround sound, the black album is a worthwhile purchase. Please buy it though, don't borrow it from your friend, or listen to it for free somewhere without properly compensating the band for the intellectual property they have commercially distributed for home use and enjoyment only. Lear Jets cost money you know. Added notes: This was originally reviewed on a Yamaha Surround Sound Receiver with a Pioneer Elite 47A DVD player. At the time of my original review above, I had Cambridge Soundworks speakers hooked up except the front R&L channels which were Advent Legacies. Since upgrading to Polk speakers,a Velodyne subwoofer and a Rotel amplifier for the fronts, my feelings for this album have only grown. In fact the Velodyne subwoofer really brings out the bass I hadn't noticed in my original review. - Shopaholic_Man, epinions 2/4/05

I was on a long drive recently and listened to all of the Metallica albums in order up to Live...Binge, and I must say that it made me realize what a huge difference Bob Rock's production and attitude made for these guys. The original band was far better, for my money: Cliff and Mustaine vs Kirk and Newsted? No comparison. But Rock saw where this band's real power lies: founders Ulrich and Hetfield. He clearly knew how to bring out their best in the studio, and he definitely mic'ed Lars' kit like no one before or since. Maybe the best huge drum sound since Bonzo. Massive. Plus, these tunes are among the best these guys ever wrote. I especially love Sad But True. What a huge riff, and Ulrich's drumming is truly awesome. This track exemplifies the main gift Bob brought to these guys, though I've never heard anyone mention it: he taught them how to swing. While listening to the first Metallica albums I get a little worn out sonically because everything is so on top of the beat. Everyone is pounding but those songs could be even heavier if there was more rhythmic push-pull, a la early Sabbath and middle Zep. Rock saw this and showed Lars how to pull back in the pocket a bit, which makes Hetfield's incomparably heavy rhythm riffs thunder like never before. Just listen to the huge pockets on Sad and Sandman. That's a new zone for Metallica, and I don't think they've topped it since. Nothing against Kirk or Jason, they're both decent, but they're playing with probably the best metal drummer and metal rhythm player of them all, so it's hard not to seem somewhat pedestrian. Hammett's solos get pretty boring after a while to me, but oh well. Newsted does lock in well with Lars' kick drum here, and that brings a lot of weight to the proceedings. I got caught driving in a sudden blizzard in the Rockies last week at 3 am and could barely see ten feet down the highway, so I put this album on and turned it up to 11 to keep me sharp. I will never forget that hour. Total whiteness meets total blackness; the focus and ferocity of the music really got me into the zone as I went over a high mountain pass and slowly came out of the snow. The perfect soundtrack to hair-raising intensity. I should mention that I saw a show on the first leg of this tour, and it remains one of the top five rock shows I've ever seen, of about two thousand. They were on fire and went off at least six times. Most bands get there once a night if they're lucky. I don't much care for their work since this album, but as peaks go, this is Everest among metal albums. The best drummer/rhythm team in heavy rock at their zenith. But you gotta play it loud, with a subwoofer. Booooommm!

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Whats the point of even reviewing this? Is someone gonna be "Oh I just heard about this band Metallica I wonder if that album Master Of Puppets is good?" Honestly you people with your long critical reviews are wasting your time, Im even wasting my time, just not as much.

Every song is great. It's one of those few cd's that I always play from start to finish.

this album is the best every song you can listen to and never get bored of it! :)

This was probably Metallica's best record, more complex than Kill 'Em All, and therefore greater depth, musically speaking, although the band still manages to jam quite extensively.

AS EXPECTED THE CD WAS DELIVERED ON THE PREDICTED DAY WHICH WAS GREAT AND THE CD WAS NEW AND UNOPEND AS WAS PROMISED. OVER ALL I'M VERY HAPPY WITH THE OVERALL PURCHASE OF THE CD AND THE QUICK DESPATCH FROM WHERE I PURCHASED IT FROM. GREAT JOB!!!!

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Ride the Lightning being Metallica's 2nd studio album and their 1984 release is truly an incredible album. The album has produced some of the best thrash metal that I have ever listened to. The songs that I especially like are "For Whom The Bell Tolls " and "Fade To Black". All the lyrics are included in the book along with some photos of the band. We also get a list over whom plays what. The album was met with rave reviews by the critics. Allmusic and Kerrang! both giving the album very high marks in their reviews. 5/5.

This is Metallica's second album of their career and is one of their best. The music is much more inspired and truer to their thrash/speed metal origins. Noteworthy tracks are Fight Fire with Fire, the title track, For Whom the Bell Tolls and Fade to Black. The other songs are almost as good though less famous. Unlike most of their contempraries, Metallica wasb not very controbersial. The music makes a statement from a band in their prime.

Metallica's 1984 album Ride The Lightning was and is much better than their debut album Kill 'Em All, released the year before. The lyrics on RTL are both darker and more mature (in other words, less commercial). RTL is also, in my opinion, better than Master Of Puppets and ...And Justice For All and is the only Metallica I would rank among my favorite metal albums. Personally, I prefer Slayer to Metallica, but RTL is just as good as any of my favorite Slayer albums. It has many of the same elements of a great Slayer album - speed, heaviness, brutality, and a guitar solo on every song - but also acoustic guitar, beautiful melodies, and even actual singing. The album starts out strong with the relentless Fight Fire With Fire, a song about nuclear war that hopefully will never happen. The second song is also about death, specifically execution by the electric chair. This song has one of the best riffs of all-time and was written, in part, by Dave Mustaine before he was kicked out of the band and went on to form Megadeth. The third song on RTL is For Whom The Bell Tolls, which features a great instrumental intro and of course, the boom of a ringing bell, much like the one heard on AC/DC's Hell's Bells. Next comes my second-favorite song on the album, Fade To Black, which is about suicide. However, the lyrics are not about wanting to commit suicide, but are rather an exploration of why others want to. Take, for example, the lyric "emptiness is filling me, to the point of agony", which is sung by James Hetfield with passion and a sense of deep sorrow. The second half of the album begins with a much faster and heavier song called Trapped Under Ice, continuing the theme of death with lyrics about drowning in freezing cold water. Next is the song Escape, which is all about a prison break, complete with the sound of police sirens. Escape is probably the only song on RTL that couldn't be considered a classic, but it is by no means a bad song. Following Escape is the concert staple Creeping Death, which actually tells part of the Bible story of Passover. Perhaps this biblical reference was inspired by the Iron Maiden songs Revelations and The Number Of The Beast; I don't know. The final song on the album is my personal favorite Metallica song, the epic instrumental The Call Of Ktulu. Every song on RTL is at least 4 or 5 minutes long, but Ktulu is nearly 9 minutes long. It is an unrelenting display of the band's incredible musical talent. It just keeps going and going, like the f***ing Energizer Bunny or something. It is very complex, but has a solid structure, and perhaps the most interesting thing about it is that, since it has no lyrics or vocals, it can be about whatever you want it to be about. It doesn't matter if you don't know what its title refers to (most people don't, myself included). The Call Of Ktulu was also written in part by Mustaine, but once again he doesn't actually play on it. Ktulu is quite possibly the best instrumental heavy metal song ever recorded and it brings the album to one hell of a close. Ride The Lightning is considered by many to be one of Metallica's best and Amazon has honored it with an 'essential recording' label. I highly recommend it as well, especially if all you've heard of the band is more recent releases like St. Anger and Death Magnetic. So buy this album, put in your CD player, and be prepared to ride the lightning!

This was exactly what I was looking for. the seller ibfo was spot on and in the condition I asked for with a great delivery time. I am very happy with Amazon sellers and amazon. I have nothing short of a great experience using Amazon. Thank You greg

If you dont know why Metallica's Ride The Lightning is the album that put them on the map then you need to buy this album immediately. Its amazing that this album came out in the early 80's and metal bands are still trying to steal their sound 20+ years later. However, my used copy from somewhere in Las Vegas was a copy made in South America. The booklet appeared to be color photo copied with Spanish instead of English in the insert. The cd played fine but I couldnt help but think something looks a little unusual about this cd. Hence 4 stars instead of 5

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For anyone who is a Metallica fan, this is a must have. The songs performed span their entire career. The picture and sound quality are great. I would recommend this DVD to everyone.

A brilliante summary of the 3 days in Mexico. The audio quality is state-of-the-art. The video quality appear unreal. The set list is marvelous. This CD- and DVD-Box is for each Metallicafan must. The box set is worth each penny.

The concert video and audio are awesome. One of the best quality audio dvd's you will find and metallica's best production in a dvd thus far. Video direction and quality are excellent. The editing is done well except I wish there was a way to not have the occasional mexican audience interviews mixed in with the show between songs. Its all good but sometimes you just want to see just the concert. That is my only minor complaint but doesnt detract from the concert and dvd quality. A must buy if you are a Metallica fan. Instantly one of my favorite dvds I purchased all time and I have over 200 concert dvd's. I purchased the deluxe version as I am a collector. The audio of disc one of the dvd's is on 2 cd's. Alas, the audio of dvd 2 is not on the two included concert cd's.

ENvoie rapide malgré les fetes de noel! 4 semaines USA/France; coffret carton un peu abîmé, dû au long voyage! Impec!

Metallica kicks some tail in Mexico. As always a killer live show and a mixed set of old and new. Cheap packaging though. Item was damaged in shipping and it's not even worth the time to send back. I think I'm done with Amazon !

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For me one of the best concerts on BD additional not available in Europe!!! (shame)

This is the best Metallica show that I ever seen in my life. I have been at two live shows in Minneapolis, MN and it was way below the energy that this show has. Even when I watch it on my tv it feels more alive than the two shows that I went to. You can see that in all four members of the band that they are having such a great time playing in Mexico. Pay attention to the songs Nothing else matters, a memory remainds, and enter sadman and you will know what I'm talking about.

I bought it as a gift, haven't watched it but i got it very fast.

The audio quality is state-of-the-art, the video quality is unreal, and a great setlist to go with it. The only annoyance is that during the concert they show interview and fan footage.. Which is the only thing I didn't like since I enjoy sitting and listening to the concert portion only. Other than that, it's worth every penny.

Ok, first the reasons why I'm giving it only 4 stars: Why couldn't they put together a Blu-ray deluxe package? I had to choose between buying the full 2-disc DVD + 2 disc CD version or, if I wanted superior audio and video, go with the 1 disc Blu-ray. I definitely think that's something they should look into for possible future Blu-ray releases. I would have liked the option to get the full 3-day setlist on Blu-Ray. They did the same with the Nimes Blu-Ray of which there is a boxed set version only available on DVD. Again, I opted for the Blu-Ray. Another thing I don't really like about the Mexico Blu-Ray is that they placed interviews/behind the scenes stuff in-between songs instead of having it separately as Special Features like on the Nimes disc. It's annoying if I just want to watch and enjoy the concert for it to be interrupted but little bits of fan or band interviews (all in Spanish, by the way). The setlist on the Blu-Ray is as follows: The Ecstasy Of Gold Creeping Death For Whom The Bell Tolls Ride The Lightning Disposable Heroes One Broken, Beat & Scarred The Memory Remains Sad But True The Unforgiven All Nightmare Long The Day That Never Comes Master Of Puppets Fight Fire With Fire Nothing Else Matters Enter Sandman The Wait Hit The Lights Seek & Destroy Since Metallica played three consecutive shows in Mexico City, the footage is from all three nights combined. I was at the concert on the 4th of June and, again, I wish I could have seen all the songs they played that night on Blu-Ray (Blackened, for example is only available on the 2-disc DVD package). The concert was awesome and this disc is extra special for me since I was there. Audio and Video are great...it's awesome to finally see a Metallica Blu-Ray release. I do think that the Video quality of the Nimes Blu-Ray is slightly better...but that maybe because of the cool venue they played in Nimes. Also, the helicopter footage was clearly not shot in HD as the quality is horrible compared to the rest of the concert footage. BTW...buy both at the Met website instead of here...they're cheaper there even with shipping!