Metallica...And Justice for All

Dense, dry, and clanging like machinery with the bass mixed into oblivion. 'Blackened' opens with reverse-tracked menace before tearing off at full gallop, 'Harvester of Sorrow' grinds with mechanical dread, and 'One' builds from a battlefield whisper into a machine-gun double-bass assault. Labyrinthine arrangements stacked into towers of riff. Cold, brutal, and uncompromising, this is Metallica at their most punishing and complex.