Metallica Tournament

Arts & Entertainment
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Group 2 voting is closed and with it the only St. Anger track goes down, a sad day in this forums history to be sure. Some really poor choices were made in general here IMO but on we go.

Working on group 3 now.

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103

Group IV, got a legit contender for the trophy here with ā€œOneā€ IMO. Also Sanitarium/Welcome Home is fucking great, fade to black is great, Trapped under ice is a personal fave.

edit: just realized i pulled group 4 on accident, so weā€™ll circle back to III next.

  • One
  • The Frayed Ends of Sanity
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  • Fade to Black
  • Hero of the Day
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  • Moth Into Flame
  • Trapped Under Ice
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  • Welcome Home/Sanitarium
  • The God That Failed
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  • Now That Weā€™re Dead
  • Eye of the Beholder
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  • Orion
  • The Shortest Straw
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  • Donā€™t Tread on Me
  • Holier than Thou
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  • Fight Fire with Fire
  • Of Wolf and Man
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104

Man you really hear the difference between pre and post Black Album Metallica when listening to them side-by-side. They donā€™t even sound like the same band.

One is my favorite Metallica song. Iā€™m voting for it all the way through.

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105

Massive ā€œwatā€ at the people voting Shortest Straw over Orion. Are you out of your goddamn minds.

I got Moth Into Flame > Trapped Under Ice but not religious about it. Definitely think Of Wolf And Man > Fight Fire With Fire though.

106

Eye of the beholder sucks, that is all.

Also, the top 4 of this group is legit

107

All 8 of these decisions were really easy.

108

Thereā€™s almost no way Iā€™m voting for a pre-downfall Metallica album over the Black Album. Unless itā€™s like Enter Sandman vs. a really crappy track.

109

Shortest Straw deserved an easier opponent, and it also feels like the instrumentals will suffer in this format, but Orion continues to be my favorite Metallica song, whatever that means. Trapped Under Ice kicks off with a solo before any singing which is appreciated, verse riff is good, chorus is a little meh, middle section is nice. Moth Into Flame is a very good track, beats a lot of Black Album offerings as a relative measure of its quality (as do the other top 4 songs on Hardwired).

I donā€™t like Fight Fire With Fire much, but we need to do quite a bit better than a song about werewolves? to beat it. Good solo though.

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110

Orion top 5 Metallica song for sure. I think Of Wolf And Man is one of the better tracks on the Black album and Fight Fire With Fire maybe the worst track on RTL. That or Escape I think?

111

Frayed Ends of Sanity also getting screwed by seeding, Iā€™m giving it my vote. I accept that One is going to go really far and deserves to, but before it does feast your ears on the riffs and harmonies going into the solo on Frayed Ends. One of the highlights of the album for me.

Also, The God That Failed is a great song.

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112

Yeah, Iā€™ve got that as the second worst draw in the tournament, behind No Leaf Clover.

113

Meh at Frayed Ends. AJFA has One, Blackened and Harvester of Sorrow and then massive daylight to next track imo. Idk what Iā€™d even put next.

114

Uhhā€¦the title track?

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115

Some people like Fight Fire With Fire and canā€™t stand Call of Ktulu, and have it ahead of Ride The Lightning etc., I definitely loved the song when I first heard it I just got over it.

I have Harvester behind AJFA the song, To Live Is To Die, Frayed Ends and about equal to Shortest Straw. The only ā€œweakā€ song Iā€™ve got is Dyers Eve and itā€™s not that weak. Eye of the Beholder is underrated but at the bottom also.

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116

yeah, that passage is sick af

I wanna get on my treadmill listening to it!

Hetfieldā€™s laugh near the end, too

we need to do a thread on the best ā€˜yeahhhsā€™ in music history. James in Bleeding Me lol Goat yeahs

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117

Hadnā€™t heard it in ages, but upon re-listen just now, that intro on FFWF sounds like Dio.

the verse is just a total steamroller lmao

we all shall die!!

118

Thereā€™s a famous quote from I think it was Hetfield that he looked out at the crowd one night while playing AJFA and they looked bored and he was like ā€œthis is the last time we play this songā€.

Itā€™s an OK song but strays a little too far into prog wankery, never really justifying, no pun intended, its length.

119

I like how we are all pretending Lulu doesnā€™t even exist.

One, Fade to Black and Welcome Home were easy decisions. The rest was actually kind of hard.

120

AJFA is a good song. It might not be what fans in the front rows of a Metallica concert want to hear. Metallica tracks always tend to be a bit on the long-ish side. The average track on Death Magnetic and Hardwired is 7 minutes long and those at times appear to be a much more of a patchwork effort.

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And that should continue