Customer Reviews
thrash and heavy metal in one album - By: johnyp, 21 Nov 2008 
my fav metallica album by far, kill em all was good but i never saw the big deal with ride the lightning & the puppets album but this is summat else each track goes on for ages with different guitar riffs & some good lyrics, its also the kinda album you can bang your head to as it goes from thrash one min to a slower tempo the next, so it suits both the old & new fans of metallica & as for the production i didnt even notice until i read amazons review, plus i think it makes the snare drum sound better.
so so album - By: E. Gallagher, 25 Sep 2008 
In my opinion And Justice For All is the album where Metallica shifted direction into what can best be described as hard progressive rock. If you want to enjoy the best of the band buy the first three albums, after that the song writing & music gets a little tedious & long-gone are the great riffs & tight songs of the earlier material. It's not that bad an effort, but really only an essential purchase for hardcore fans.
flawed brilliance - By: P. Menzel, 06 Sep 2008 Yes, the sound quality is poor.
And yes, the songs are long & very complicated.
But get your head around the complexities, get over the poor production, & you will hear this album for what it is - Metallica at their best.
Master Of Puppets may get the reviews & the hype, yet it includes The Thing That Should Not Be, Sanitarium & Leper Messiah, three very forgettable songs (by Metallica's standards). The Shortest Straw is probably the worst song on 'Justice', & it is twice as good as any of those three songs.
Having said all of that, if you feel a need to read the reviewsin detail before purchasing then your mind is probably not open enough to be able to appreciate the music!
A Masterpiece, it may take you awhile to get into all of it. - By: MrMetalheadO'Hagan, 15 Jun 2008 I bought this albumin january & i thought it was amazing the songs are really heavy, it's loud, the drumming & the drum sound is breathtaking, the solos are brilliant & lyrics are very political. To be honest i have no problem with the production i think the albums fine the way it is. I dont have a favourite track on this there all amazing though Too Live Is Too Die did take some listening to get into & so did harvester of sorrow, the rest of the tracks i loved straight away. From the awesome Blackend to really fast & heavy Dyers Eve the album is a masterpiece. I can't really fault this album i prefer this to the black album well i prefer most metallicas album to the black album. This is a great place to start with metallica & thrash metal this is metallicas last thrash metal album & they havn't made a thrash metal albumm since. This is recommended to every metalhead. METALLICA ROCK
Metallica's greatest album - By: Gum Bear, 26 May 2008 ... And Justice For All is the album that made me like Metallica. Metallica's earlier albums Kill'em All, Master of Puppets & ride the Lighting failed to make an impression on me, which is probably one of the reasons I liked Guns N'Roses more, backin the day (the 80's). Haha. ... And Justice For All is my favourite Metallica album, followed by the Black album. The reason I place these 2 albumsin this order is quite simple. The Black album contains 12 tracks of which 4 are great (Sad But True, The Unforgiven, Through The Never, Nothing Else Matters). ... And Justice For All contains 9 tracks of which all 9 are great. No contest really. I've just purchased ... And Justice For All for the 2nd time as my other copy is vinyl.
