Now, I realize no metalhead ever got anything off those two albums mixed up, but in my semi-comatose state (yes, I was driving, but, hey, happens to the best of us) I was able to realize the similarities between those two records in a way I never had before. Please bear with me here, but I kept thinking, “This must be something off Justice, and I’m going to feel like a fool when I realize what it is.” And although today as I type this I forget what song it was, I do remember this: it was off The Black Album. It was just a weird brain melt, so I started trying to figure it out based on the riffs and song structure. Not like how no one can place anything from any of their last five albums or whatever, but, like, I had this song memorized but couldn’t tell what album it was from. So, a while ago I was driving down the road, zoning out hard to SiriusXM, and I could tell I was listening to a Metallica song but I just couldn’t place it. So here we are, one more look back at when thrash titans dominated the earth, and a detailed analysis and showdown of the records that drove longhairs mad with rage and excitement, and a deep dive into the grooves that shook the world, at least for a brief moment in time. But it did get me thinking about the record again, which in turn got me thinking about Megadeth’s record again, which led to me talking to my editor about how even though we’re probably a bit tired of hearing about these albums-especially The Black Album-we should probably have a Fight Fire With Fire to figure out which of the two is actually the better record. This year, Metallica celebrated 30 years of their record with re-releases and box sets and covers records and all manner of things, but, like many of us who now spend time in more extreme corners of metal, I didn’t check it all out. These two albums signified a huge shift in metal-it was thrash trying to grow up, trying to reach the next level. Its release was slightly more subdued than Metallica’s, but I spun it more after it came out. On July 14, 1992, Megadeth-long playing catch-up with Metallica and sometimes beating them when they do get there-dropped Countdown to Extinction. It’s the most polarizing album in the history of heavy metal, it’s sold an unbelievable amount of copies around the world and metalheads will never stop talking about it. The release of The Black Album was one of the most significant events of my teenage years. On August 12, 1991, Metallica upended the entire metal world with the release of their self-titled album.
Plus, we love these sorts of exercises, and also love watching you battle each other to the death in the comments, so how could this possibly end poorly? Yes, these albums are the best of the best.
Countdown to extinction series#
Fight Fire With Fire 1991, 1992, Countdown to Extinction, Fight Fire with Fire, Megadeth, Metallica, The Black Album.įight Fire With Fire is an ongoing series on our site where we pit two classic genre albums against each other to definitively figure out which one is better.
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