Quote (Mattd90 @ Apr 25 2011 01:54pm)
honestly, i can only see the first album being pure thrash. ride the lightning and master of puppets had some thrash, but by the 2nd album they were doing a lot more melodic things.
yes and no by the second and third albums they starting to play more complex music and using more tempo changes so it wasn't the same stereotypical thrash as before but it set the trend for all thrash afterwords
also the first 3 albums drew immensely from Dave Mustaine hell he wrote half of the lyrics for kill em all and all of the lead guitar shit so that's where most of the real thrash came from
luckily for Metallica they got rid of Dave but got Cliff to solidify themselves as a metal band but after cliff they really have been just a pop band under a metal banner
basically they were the deathcore of the 80s and now they are the U2 of anyone born in the 85-95 years