[Jared at Pelican Parts]

I look at it this way...

Listen to anything prior to And Justice For All and their music is epic, grand, almost operatic. In fact I always thoguht Metallica was like the modern day Wagner.

Go listen to Master Of Puppets and tell me that is not epic, sweeping music. Hard, fast, yet musically it goes in many different directions with a cohesiveness that works. That is what i loved about Metallica. They could do a 10 minute long metal opera.

Then the black album came out and it was like, Metallica is doing singles now. While I liked some of the songs on there, that sense of adventure wasnt there. Then they followed that up with the aptly titled Load.