I think all Metallica albums are good, so I just rank them in a numbered order instead out out of a criteria.
This page excludes all cover albums, non original songs, and the collaboration album S&M that Metallica recorded with the San Francisco Symphony.

• James Hetfield🐝🚗️ (Vocals, Rhythm Guitar 1981-NOW)

Everyone calls James sexy, listen, guys, I will never think James Hetfield is sexy because he has dad energy and I will not entertain this on my own website! Go call him hot on your own page, but here that is a Father Figure, EXCEPT when he is singing The Unnamed Feeling. Then he's sexy.

• Lars Ulrich (Drums 1981-NOW)

Everyone likes to tease Lars, I like to tease Lars, but I will say I have no actual beef with him. I don't think hes a legendary drummer but I do think he's a good drummer, and more importantly I do think that he's important to the band, I just think that his ideas have been way more impactful than his actual drumming.

• Dave Mustaine (Lead Guitar 1981-1983✇)

Once upon a time Dave Mustaine was in Metallica and now I wish he would talk more about Megadeth than he does. I don't actually care about how he's impacted Metallica, I care about how he's impacted Megadeth! Also I'm not afraid to say that I don't hate the guy or anything but I think people who think that he's somehow more talented than Kirk are out of their MINDS.

• Kirk Hammett (Lead Guitar 1983-NOW)

I named my own guitar Genie (93nie) because theres a bunch of records of Kirk playing a Stratocaster up through 1993, and he was my inspiration to play in the first place. Also uhh. Fine, yes, I think he's very very hot, go giggle about it like teenagers. Partly I think he's hot because he's pretty, partly because he's kind, and partly because he is genuinely one of the best electric guitar players in the world in my opinion. I see how he ranked number eleven in a vote. I really hope that some day I can ask him to sign Genie.

• Ron McGovney (Bass 1981-1982)

He had his place in the band and deserves to be mentioned but there's not a whole lot to know about Rons time in the band I don't believe.

• Cliff Burton (Bass 1982-1986)

(1962-1986♡) Cliff has the only serious video here, I want to use a clip from the documentary since this story has been beat to hell and I don't want to retell it myself, it feels disrespectful. I do want to make a note that I genuinely believe that Cliff was an outstanding bassist and had he lived longer he would be even more famous than he is now, and he's pretty damn well known.

• Jason Newstead (Bass 1986-2001)

He is a hell of a bassist, and I feel for him, he had a nasty hazing when joining the band. I think he made important impacts on Metallicas music and I still support him going out and doing other things, rock on.

• Robert Trujillo (Bass 2003-NOW)

Robert joined the band late, but I think its super interesting that prior he also was on Ozzy Ozbourns band for a period of time, and you can hear that in his playing. I really like Robert.

Metallica is without a doubt the biggest metal band in the world, but it feels like overkill that they were also the first to play on literally every continent. Yes, including Antartica.

This album was supposed to be called 'Metal Up Your Ass', but producers refused to let them use that title, and Lars said "Lets just kill 'em all' as a joke about being annoyed with the producers, and in my humble opinion its funny as hell that that became the title.

1. "Hit the Lights" 4:17
2. "The Four Horsemen" 7:13
3. "Motorbreath" 3:08
4. "Jump in the Fire" 4:41
5. "(Anesthesia) – Pulling Teeth" 4:14
6. "Whiplash" 4:08
7. "Phantom Lord" 5:01
8. "No Remorse" 6:26
9. "Seek & Destroy" 6:54

My favorite track on the album for sure

10. "Metal Militia" 5:11

1. "Fight Fire with Fire" 4:44
2. "Ride the Lightning" 6:37
3. "For Whom the Bell Tolls" 5:11
4. "Fade to Black" 6:55
5. "Trapped Under Ice" 4:04
6. "Escape" 4:24
7. "Creeping Death" 6:36
8. "The Call of Ktulu" 8:55

Despite the lack of vocals this might actually be my favorite track on the whole album. If not this, then Creeping Death.

Behold this green monstosity of a misprint.

1. "Battery" 5:13
2. "Master of Puppets" 8:36

My favorite song on this album is Master of Puppets, to no ones surprise.

3. "The Thing That Should Not Be" 6:37
4. "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)" 6:28
5. "Disposable Heroes" 8:17
6. "Leper Messiah" 5:40
7. "Orion" 8:28
8. "Damage, Inc." 5:33

1. "Blackened" 6:42
2. "...And Justice for All" 9:46
3. "Eye of the Beholder" 6:25
4. "One" 7:26

I like One but it is absolutely overrated. Don't fight me, I'm right.

5. "The Shortest Straw" 6:35
6. "Harvester of Sorrow" 5:45
7. "The Frayed Ends of Sanity" 7:43
8. "To Live Is to Die" 9:49

I am not a fan of when people come up with whole playlists for for their funerals because they're never ACTUALLY the songs people want at their funeral, and frankly I don't WANT a funeral to be held at all when I die, but I do want this song played at my grave.

9. "Dyers Eve" 5:14

1. "Enter Sandman" 5:31

When I was just a teeny tiny baby my mom used to play the Black Album CD in the car all the time. When I was in elementary school I realized that I knew all the words to Enter Sandman, around the same time I had learned nursery rhymes. It is very possible that Enter Sandman is the first song I ever sang, and in honor of that it is also the first song I learned on guitar. Also, I think that the prayer in the song is the prayer my mom used to have me recite at bedtime every night. No one tell her how James Hetfield has religious trauma and that's what the religious iconography is about.

2. "Sad but True" 5:24
3. "Holier than Thou" 3:47
4. "The Unforgiven" 6:27
5. "Wherever I May Roam" 6:44

Despite the whole lore dump about Enter Sandman, this is my favorite song on the album, followed by My Friend of Misery.

6. "Don't Tread on Me" 4:00
7. "Through the Never" 4:04
8. "Nothing Else Matters" 6:28
9. "Of Wolf and Man" 4:16
10. "The God That Failed" 5:08
11. "My Friend of Misery" 6:49
12. "The Struggle Within" 3:53

I had to get this book to learn the songs that are nostalgic for me.

I am gonna keep it a buck with you. I agree with James, the cover art is gross as hell. Its a photo of actual bulls blood mixed with actual semen. I am judging, yes. Not because its blood and semen, but because using bulls blood feels wrong, use your own, coward. And I'm still judging Lars for what he did to that poor snare drum.

1. "Ain't My Bitch" 5:04
2. "2 X 4" 5:28
3. "The House Jack Built" 6:39
4. "Until It Sleeps" 4:28
5. "King Nothing" 5:30
6. "Hero of the Day" 4:22

Hero of the Day is my least favorite song on the album, to me this is doesn't feel like a Metallica song at all

7. "Bleeding Me" 8:18
8. "Cure" 4:54
9. "Poor Twisted Me" 4:00
10. "Wasting My Hate" 3:57
11. "Mama Said" 5:20

There is a chunk of Load that I just don't like, but my favorite on the album has to be Mama Said, it's such an iconic song in my opinion.

12. "Thorn Within" 5:52
13. "Ronnie" 5:17
14. "The Outlaw Torn" 9:49

1. "Fuel" 4:29
2. "The Memory Remains (feat. Marianne Faithfull)" 4:39
3. "Devil's Dance" 5:18
4. "The Unforgiven II" 6:36
5. "Better than You" 5:21
6. "Slither" 5:13
7. "Carpe Diem Baby" 6:12
8. "Bad Seed" 4:05
9. "Where the Wild Things Are" 6:52

Where the Wild Things Are is another song that to me just doesn't feel like a Metallica song, it's not bad but it's hardly got that curated Metallica sound.

10. "Prince Charming" 6:04
11. "Low Man's Lyric" 7:36
12. "Attitude" 5:16
13. "Fixxxer" 8:15

My favorite song on this album

(Not on Reload) 2000 "I Disappear" 4:29
(Single for the Mission Impossible 2 soundtrack)

1. "Frantic" 5:50
2. "St. Anger" 7:21
3. "Some Kind of Monster" 8:25
4. "Dirty Window" 5:24
5. "Invisible Kid" 8:30
6. "My World" 5:45
7. "Shoot Me Again" 7:10
8. "Sweet Amber" 5:27
9. "The Unnamed Feeling" 7:08

I cannot be normal about The Unnamed Feeling, it's not just my favorite song on this album but holds a special place in my heart overall. I am one of those filthy heathens who actually loves St Anger and most of the songs on it.

10. "Purify" 5:13
11. "All Within My Hands" 8:48

1. "That Was Just Your Life" 7:10
2. "The End of the Line" 7:50
3. "Broken, Beat & Scarred" 6:25

I think this album is extremely cathartic, and this is my favorite of these cathartic songs.

4. "The Day That Never Comes" 7:55
5. "All Nightmare Long" 8:01
6. "Cyanide" 6:41
7. "The Unforgiven III" 7:47
8. "The Judas Kiss" 8:02
9. "Suicide & Redemption" 9:57
10. "My Apocalypse" 5:01

RIP all the lost riffs on Kirks lost phone that could have been on this album
Full title is "Hardwired... to Self-Destruct"

1. "Hardwired" 3:10
2. "Atlas, Rise!" 6:30
3. "Now That We're Dead" 7:00

Now that we're dead is my favorite song off this album, though it's a hard choice, I love most of this album.

4. "Moth into Flame" 5:50
5. "Dream No More" 6:30
6. "Halo on Fire" 8:15
7. "Confusion" 6:43
8. "ManUNkind" 6:55
9. "Here Comes Revenge" 7:17
10. "Am I Savage?" 6:30
11. "Murder One" 5:45
12. "Spit Out the Bone" 7:09
13. "Lords of Summer" 7:10

It took me a couple years to make myself listen to 72 Seasons because I was scared that it would turn out that my favorite band was getting old and not making music as good as they used to, but I was relieved when I did, because this album absolutely fucks.

1. "72 Seasons" 7:39
2. "Shadows Follow" 6:12
3. "Screaming Suicide" 5:30
4. "Sleepwalk My Life Away" 6:56
5. "You Must Burn!" 7:03
6. "Lux Æterna" 3:22

Lux Aeterna is the most common song from 72 Seasons that is played in concert, and for some reason that surprises me.

7. "Crown of Barbed Wire" 5:49

I am happy to listen to Crown of Barbed Wire despite it being my least favorite song on the album besides maybe Inamorata, because it's still great.

8. "Chasing Light" 6:45
9. "If Darkness Had a Son" 6:36

If Darkness Had a Son is my favorite song from this album, followed by Screaming Suicide.

10. "Too Far Gone?" 4:34
11. "Room of Mirrors" 5:34
12. "Inamorata" 11:10