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This is pathetic. I can't believe people who think that Metallica are still worth listening to. Point in case: their newest single on the radio, St. Anger. (Sigh) Where did it all go wrong? Let me point out just what it was... To go back to the very root of Metallica's musical deterioration, we should really be looking at the Black album. I guess in most Metallica fan circles, however, the Black album was the last great album. I disagree. I have always thought that And Justice For All was their last great album. Justice was a metal masterwork, with epic songs and brilliant lyrics. It was a fitting tribute to their dead bassist and friend, Cliff. It was their goodbye to Cliff as well as their goodbye to great music. The Black album was more mainstream, the songs were compromised, the riffs sloppy, the lyrics silly, but it was still recognizable as Metallica Fast foward four years. Load is released to perplexed fans. "Cut hair, pimp suits, goth makeup in their music videos? What? This is not Metallica!" And in a way, it wasn't. The Metallica the thrash metal fans knew died with the four year hiatus. They had finished grieving Cliff, and the spirit was gone. Cliff would never have allowed this Glam Rock/alt rock/blues/goth rock hybrid. It would have shamed him. Metallica has become everything that they once claimed to have hated, and it really makes me sad. The music they made in years past was so EXCELLENT. Each one of their first four albums was a metal masterpiece, brilliant and well thought out. Now their music is a parody of what it once was. Until it Sleeps, the House That Jack Built...blech. Give me Harvester, Blackened, Master, Four Horsemen, anything but this drivel.