Says who? So AC/DC, Megadeth, and Iron Maiden didn't suit your taste? The only thing Metallica was guilty of was being ahead of its time. Their album was a fish out of water and didn't fit in the 80s rock scene.
Not saying that it sucked or anything, I'm a huge Metallica fan. Just saying that glam rock, punk, and other elements of rock dominated.
“So AC/DC, Megadeth, and Iron Maiden didn’t suit your taste? “
Not really, but your point is taken.
Agreed.
“Not saying that it sucked or anything, I’m a huge Metallica fan. Just saying that glam rock, punk, and other elements of rock dominated.”
I’m somewhat in agreement. The very first tape I bought with my own money was GNR’s appetite for destruction. My older brother used to kick my ass when he caught me playing his And Justice For All album..
Cough... Motorhead.... Cough
Solo Ozzy was some of my go to 80’s cruising music along with Metallica and Megadeth. Those were the days. The 80’s did indeed rock.
Foreigner, Van Halen, The Scorpions and Judas Priest were bad good, too.
THIS album, however, is a Masterpiece (no pun intended). Hearing "Orion" live at Big Four was epic.
I can get my arms around the argument that the first two albums are appetizers for Master of Puppets, and on that basis they're not groundbreaking but developmental for one of THE greatest metal albums of all-time. In that context, let's celebrate Kill 'Em All.
As for early thrash circa 1985, while this album probably wouldn't be made without Metallica, this is something else:
One way I saw it was, hair metal semi-suicidally started to become a parody of itself by the early 90’s and it opened the door for all that bleak-sounding, navel-gazing grunge and alt-rock that sucked all the air out of the room and left little for newer rock bands to breathe (in the U.S., anyway). I just didn’t give a hoot in hell for Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Blind Melon, Oasis, or any other of that ilk. I’m not saying that it shouldn’t have been so; one man’s trash is another man’s treasure and all that, but it was a sharp 90 degree turn in short order that knocked the pins out from under a lot of good, successful rock bands from the 70’s onward. Someone coming of age in the 90’s probably thought bands like Metallica, Maiden, and the like were already dinosaurs, and bands like AC/DC and Priest were leftovers in the cutout bin. But there was still that ‘over 30 and you’re done’ mentality then, too. I can remember as far back as 1990 or so, and a co-worker and I saw Robert Plant at the old Cap Center in Landover. (Manic Nirvana tour, I believe - the first one where he relented and started throwing Zep tunes into the mix.) We remembered thinking, “God, Plant’s like, 41 or 42 now. Is he still gonna be able to hit those high notes?” Yup. He did. All of them. I think just about every band in this thread is still vertical and on their game. You’ll know it’s time to give it up when one of the Stones drop dead. Or Ian Anderson. LOL