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| ...And Justice for All | ||
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| Album by Metallica | ||
| Released | 1988 | |
| Recorded | January 1988- May 1988 | |
| Genre | Thrash Metal | |
| Length | 65 min 10 sec | |
| Record label | Elektra | |
| Producers | Metallica, Flemming Rasmussen | |
| Professional reviews | ||
| AMG | 4.5/5 | link |
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| Master of Puppets ( 1986) | ...And Justice for AllAnd Justice for All is Metallica's fourth album, released August 8, 1988, by Elektra Records. Overview The third album in an unofficial trilogy of Metallica albums that includes Ride the Lightning (1984) and Master of Puppets (1986), . And Justice For All ( 1988) | MetallicaMetallica was the band Metallica's fifth album, released August 12 1991 through Elektra Records. It is also called The Black Album because of its cover, which is almost completely black, with just one of the band's symbols visible as a slightly different ( 19911991 like 2002, is a palindromic year. It also has the same calendar as 2002, including Easter on March 31. It is a common year starting on Tuesday. Events January January 2 Sharon Pratt Dixon is sworn in as mayor of Washington, DC becoming the first blac) |
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The third album in an unofficial trilogy of Metallica albums that includes Ride the Lightning (1984) and Master of Puppets (1986), ...And Justice For All is the most musically complex and sonically austere of the band's classic thrash metal from the 1980s. For many fans and rock critics, the album represents the end product of an evolution in the mechanics of thrash metal. The songs on ...And Justice For All continue the lyrical directions of the previous albums in their discussion of political and social issues and the avoidance of mystical and occult topics, but lyricist James Hetfield is more direct than before in his views. At the same time, and despite Hetfield's aggressive vocal timbre, the lyrics are not overtly confrontational or ringing calls for revolutionary change. Rather, as drummer Lars Ulrich has explained it, the ideas expressed in the lyrics merely represented "interests" 1 of the band, and were meant largely to be "documentary" 2 in nature.
Sonically, ...And Justice For All continues the development of the modular song structure so characteristic of thrash metal. Like the songs on Master of Puppets, the songs on this album are quite lengthy and feature a great number of riffs, particularly during the middle (or bridge) sections. Furthermore, the actual production sound of the album marks an important development in the recorded history of metal for its incredibly clean and crisp atmosphere. Ulrich's kick drums don't "thud" so much as they "click" while Hetfield's guitar timbre dials out almost any sense of low-range frequencies. And, in one of the more famous of Hetfield and Ulrich's controversies with bassist Jason Newsted, the ...And Justice For All album is almost completely devoid of bass guitar. The standard explanation for such a situation combines Newsted's absence from the mixing sessions (in order that he might assert his opinion) and the lingering issue of his "newness" within the band following the tragic death of Cliff Burton in September 1986. The resulting product, however, provides the "descriptive" content of the lyrics with a largely lifeless and clinical accompaniment.
Unusual production aside, ...And Justice For All was Metallica's breakout album and reached No. 6 in the Billboard charts. While nowhere near as commercially successful as the band's following album (1991's Metallica), this album nevertheless raised Metallica's profile to that of a large-scale arena metal band.