...And Justice for All (Remastered)

Everyone knows what happened after Master of Puppets, but that still doesn’t explain why Metallica toned down the bass on …And Justice For All. It makes for trippy listening, as the music is still heavy yet the nearly unlistenable bass makes this one have a peculiar sound. Compositionally though, AJFA is top notch with some underrated and lesser known Metallica songs like Eye of the Beholder and the Shortest Straw. Along with Rust In Peace by Megadeth, AJFA helped create the progressive metal genre and thus is a highly essential album in that field, although the strange production keeps it just inches away from Ride the Lightning and MOP levels of glory. My favorite track is the heaviest (as is usually the case with me and Metallica albums), which is the disturbingly morbid yet shockingly relatable Harvester of Sorrow. The riff is fittingly nasty with the dark lyrical content, and its simplicity just another tool to make things more messed up. After this album is when Metallica fans became giant a**holes, and unbearable idiots though I concur that their classic period was nearing the end and it would end with 1991’s Metallica, because many new bands kept pushing the boundaries created by Metallica into uncharted realms to create death metal and black metal. Weird production yes, but don’t pass this one over. One is ubiquitous anyway, so why avoid it?

Aight so I know a lot of your guys reviews about this album are mostly complaining about missing bass (a fact I didn’t know about until I made this review) but your all still overlooking that the music still sounds great without the bass. And for all you purists out there it dosent make a huge difference with or without bass still quality music and one of my favorite Metallica albums ever (I own it on cd)

This is my favorite Metallica album, and Jason is my favorite bassist for Metallica, and I feel bad that they turned him down a lot, but I think the guitar was freaking awesome in this album. “The Shortest Straw” and “The Frayed Ends Of Sanity” are my favorites. To James and Kirk, the best guitar players of all time. 🎤🎸🎸🎸🥁

I really love “One” but a lot of the songs on this album are kinda repetitive riffs. Doesn’t mean they aren’t all bangers tho! Best ones imo: one, blackened, and justice for all, harvester of sorrow. The other songs sound very similar to each other, but still great. Definitely in my top 3 albums.

Needs bass but overall it’s amazing Jason should’ve gotten the opportunity to be in this album he is but he isn’t….

Bass makes a BIG difference…please re-release with bass in mix.

This is literally the best music I ever have and will here.

You can hear the bass to a point in the songs but turning it down in recording was a whole band choice! This album is great & the best album this band ever did!

The bass the bass. Blah. Album is a straight masterpiece in metal.

This album, despite the missing bass is perfect. One of my favorite songs ever, Blackened, is my favorite track of the album. The sound really keep the vibe of the lyrics and song writing. One was the first ever Metallica song I listened too. Even though at first I didn’t understand it, it soon became one of my favorite songs! And it still is. A 10/10 album, 5th favorite Metallica album. MY RANKING 1. Blackened 2. One 3. …And Justice For All 4. Dyers Eve 5. Harvester of Sorrow 6. The Shortest Straw 7. Eye Of The Beholder 8. The Frayed Ends Of Sanity 9. To Live Is To Die