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Impossible to vote in this poll as they are a band that covers both extremes completely.
When they started, they were really more a punk band that happened to play heavy metal music, and Kill 'Em All demonstrates that phase perfectly. Still Ride the Lightning is my favorite even if at that point they really became metal, it's just so damn well put together. Master of Puppets is still very good, and has some excellent moments ("Disposable Heroes" especially.) Garage Days Re-revisited is actually my second favorite record period as their Killing Joke and Misfits covers showed the world that they had as much to do with punk as metal at least to start with. And Justice For All had a couple decent songs but without Cliff the magic started to fade. The black album is just boring over produced mainstream metal thanks to Bob Rock, and you'd have thought it couldn't get worse. But then Alternica was born and indeed things had gotten so much worse they should be laughable, yet somehow it hurts to laugh.
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