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bruplex posted...

Those first four albums are still straight fire, including Lars. I listened to Kill 'Em All in the truck yesterday, and even back then, Lars played with power that perfectly fit the music. And the drum work on And Justice for All is fantastic.

Metallica's transformation from the Black Album onward is so strange it's almost like an entirely new band. It sounds like different dudes are writing the music. I don't begrudge fans of the post-Black album music, but it doesn't catch my ear as pre-Black Metallica does.

So what Metallica became isn't all Lars. And his 1980s drumming is part of four nearly perfect metal albums.

My biggest issues with the first albums are just the horrendous mixing. They literally are all bad. They sound not good and I dislike listening to them and it really hampers the albums for me.