My expectations for Metallica releasing anything decent is very very low at this stage. They are the Rolling Stones of metal. The shit music far outweighs the great stuff (imo), yet they are still mahoosive.[/Q
the shit outweighs the good?
You'd struggle to find a bad song on the 1st 5 albums IMO, after that opinion in general is probably equally divided as to whether the Load / Reload era was good or bad.
I think Load is a fantastic album, very underated.
Re Load is a little lacking in places but certainly not "shit" IMO.
There is only one album I cant listen to really and that is St. Anger.
Unless of course you are not an out and out Metallica fan - in which case you might not like a lot of the early stuff either?