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2024-02-03 19:15:35 UTC Album Review - Kill 'Em All by Metallica
Brief Introduction
Hey all! This is a new group where I review stuff I’ve read, watched, listened to, etc. Recently I’ve been listening to the first 4 albums of Metallica a lot so I thought I’d talk about their first album, Kill ‘Em All, for a bit. While this is basically me yapping about music that was released 40 years ago, I decided to still write this because of a) boredom and b) the serious lack of actually entertaining posts on the site recently. Anyway, let’s get to the review.
The Review
Kill ‘Em All is a pretty good album to me! Especially for a first album, it’s pretty solid. It’s fast, it’s aggressive, and it’s full of just raw energy. Very raw energy, in fact. While it’s an awesome album, that’s my main complaint with it. It doesn’t have the more refined sound of the later 3 albums. And when I listened to it a few times and then compared it to albums like Master of Puppets, And Justice For All and Ride the Lightning the difference becomes pretty clear. That’s not to say it’s bad, though. This album was a pretty good baseline to start from and develop. The other albums also have more variety in general, I feel like KEA’s sound is a bit more repetitive if that makes sense.Overall, Kill ‘Em All is a good album. Not as good as the 3 albums that came after it, but it still offers a pretty good listening experience if you like thrash metal. 8.5/10
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personally this is my second favorite of their first four records (behind puppets), i love the rawness on display and the direct superagression that runs through the whole album. the rest of their albums (especially puppets and justice) are mainly built on complexity (which there’s nothing wrong with, of course), but kill em all is based on just being a straight shot of adrenaline, and it succeeds at that. it’s just downright fun to listen to from top to bottom.
I can definitely understand that. Like you said, of the 4 albums this is the most raw and the later albums are more complex, and it essentially depends on preference. KEA’s main thing is unfiltered aggression and rawness, and it does it pretty well – it’s just a bit too raw and a bit repetitive for my taste, but it does what it’s meant to do really well. I think Master of Puppets is basically a perfect blend of both complexity and aggressiveness and Ride the Lightning was kinda a bridge between KEA and MOP.
Also I do agree that this album is really fun to listen to, I’m pretty sure i’ve listened to the entire thing for like 4 or 5 times at least and never got bored.
yeah, i completely understand that. they’re all great albums at the end of the day, it just comes down to preference. can’t really go wrong with any of them.