Absolutely. The first two Metallica albums are pretty good but they're already getting into a kind of a weird glam thing by the live footage of the Master of Puppets tour (as a kid I really liked that album but I can't even listen to the whole thing now).

Honestly, in the whole "big our" they keep talking about here I don't think Metallica is even worthy. Swap them out for Manowar or something; hell, even Testament or Dark Angel, and you've got my attention.

I still like MoP more than any Megadeth album, but I didn't find out about it until like 1995. I can't remember what it was, but some shareware software for soundblaster had the titular song in the title and I sort of had to track it down. The record store clerk was like "what?" By this point Metallica was huge but the only song I knew was the popular Enter Sandman. I'd been listening to Megadeth the whole time and had no idea that there was ever a connection. That being said, I couldn't get Master of Puppets out of my head and it's one of the few albums I can pretty much sing from memory. That and Built to Spill's Perfect From Now On. I think MoP is better than anything Megadeth put out, but overall, yeah. Megadeth 4 life.

A big part of the problem for me is that, especially after MoP, the drumming just doesn't do it for me at all on Metallica's stuf. The phrasing, the actual composition and the horrible, snappy kick drum just leave me cold. Megadeth in the 80s and early 90s has pretty great metal drumming, and Rust in Peace is probably my favorite big-name metal album from a production standpoint. It still sounds like a band even though it's a very refined studio project. I think the last Metallica album that sounded like a band was Ride the Lightning, and I like metal to sound like a band.

Rust In Peace

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That's actually one of my favorite albums ever. I was kind of an outsider in high school and liked the Wipers, Poison Idea etc. and this album was sort of a combination of Youth of America and Hell-O, if that makes any sense.

One of the first albums I ever bought.

My own personal Big Four was Megadeth, Metallica, GWAR, and White Zombie. In retrospect, Megadeth was probably my favorite, musically speaking. The thing about 'deth was, they had all theeir bases covered. Dave Mustaine was a great guitarist in own right; more than a match for most *lead* guitarists, including Kirk Hammet. Their lead guitar position was filled by a string of absolutely brilliant musicians, particularly Marty Friedman, who is one of my favorite guitarists of all time (Red Dye #2 notwithstanding). Their lyrics were awesome, at once cool and meaningful, and the artwork was (in my opinion) better even than Iron Maiden's, a close third behind GWAR and Mr Zombie. On top of that, 'deth was a hella lot more interesting behind-the-scenes than most other comparable metal bands. A jazzfag, a weeaboo, prog-rockers, bouncers; Dave himself is a pitbull-loving, karate-chopping, born-again libertarian who loves conspiracy theories and hangs out with Alex Jones. He's a crazy fucker, that's true, but hell if he's not a fascinating character! Compare and contrast to, say, James Hetfield. Who is rich. And likes beer.

Rust in Peace was a great album. My favorite was probably Countdown, but really, there are no bad Megadeth albums, which is something you can't say for many bands, especially not bands who've been in the spotlight for that long!

I will concede that MoP was a great album, possibly the single best metal album ever made. But most of the good stuff on it could be attributed to Cliff Burton, and at any rate it's not THAT much better than your average Megadeth album.

I'm not really into metal, but I love Megadeth.

You should do a rap cover of a Megadeth song!

The thriftway by my house sold tapes, but like most places, Megadeth sort of fell under the "don't sell this to minors" rule after the Judas Priest, Sabbath, etc. "OMGod THINK OF THE CHILDREN" Tipper Gore bullshit of the early 90s so they just didn't carry it. For a while there, Megadeth was sort of a myth to me, like Loch Ness Monster. So my first cassette was actually Hell-O. I bought it with an Ace of Base cassingle too thinking that the cashier might be suspicious but it didn't have the "parental advisory" sticker on it so who cares right? I grew up mostly with tapes from older friends who'd often label them wrong. I thought Joy Division's Closer was Depeche Mode's Violator and Nine Inch Nails was Ministry. But Gwar was my very first tape.

I was lucky, in middle school a bunch of metal acid heads worked for my mom and they dubbed me lots of tapes of 80s Butthole Surfers and Napalm Death and Melvins and Zappa and Sepultura and Cannibal Corpse and Deicide and Pungent Stench and basically ruined me in the positive sense.

On the negative side, one of them gave my mom the lyric sheet to America Must Be Destroyed when she asked him, and that led directly to Gwar confiscation.

Ironically that's why I pretty much stopped listening to Metallica. Their war on file sharing contradicted what got them popular in the first place: sharing bootleg cassettes. Also they ruined a perfectly good Nick Cave song!

Hey I know the lead singer for Napalm Beach really well! They still play once in a whole but now they play under the name Boo Frog. Great stuff.

(hey I should learn to read. Napalm Death's cool too but I don't know those guys.)

There's a lot of Napalm Death that I don't know, when I was in to this stuff I was pretty much about Scum and The Peel Sessions because those are the ones I was able to get copies of.

Creeping Death, Blitzkrieg, & Welcome Home Sanitarium tops Hangar 18, Mary Jane, & Wake Up Dead.

Eh, no bad Megadeth albums you say? Sorry, but Risk was fucking dog turds on a stick.

Riskload was the worst Megadeth album, but it was still only about as bad as the Black Album. Compared to what other arena-level hard rock bands were putting out in those days (most of whom were numetal Korn klones), Risk was perfectly adequate!

Plus, you have ot remember, 1999 was the year of Colony, Still Life, Metropolis Pt 2, and Hatebreeder. That kind of competition would skew anyone's opinion of Risk.

He should get married to Victoria Jackson and then tour with her like Sonny and Cher. I'd pay at least 0 into a kickstarter to make that happen.