LIVING TRIBUNAL

So Kill 'Em All is Metallica's debut release from 1983 and "The Black Album" was released in 1991 and is Metallicas most commercially sucessful disc. Enter Sandman and Nothing Else Matters come from it.

So which do you perfer?

I personally like Kill 'Em All better, they still have a real raw NWOBHM sound to them as opposed to the more polished stuff later on.

The...AND JUSTICE FOR ALL album is METALLICA at its best! Forget KEO. When you hear songs like BLACKENED, ONE, HARVESTER OF SORROW, you know that that what heavy metal music is all about. I'm a hardcore bodybuilder/fitness model, when I workout, I play mostly Metallica songs in the gym and "Blackened" really would psych the hell out of me! Lol. AJFA is their best album and my favorite of all their albums. The Black album is their most commercially successful album and I also love it and is the album that I actually grew up with as a teenager in the early '90s. I saw them in concert once in 1993 when I was 18 years old and they played all their hits ... Awesome experience.

Tell me your top 5 favorite rock groups/artists in history. Heavy metal bands are of course included. Folk rock and alternative rock bands are also included. The whole gamut.

Let me give you a sample list of the greatest rocks bands that ever set foot on a concert stage and non-mainstream bands who have influenced and entertained millions of musicians and casual music fans and listeners.

Here's the list:

Beatles

Rolling Stones

Led Zeppelin

Black Sabbath

AC/DC

Kiss

Van Halen

Deep Purple

The Doors

Pink Floyd

Eagles

The Ramones

Queen

David Bowie

Bruce Springsteen

R.E.M.

U2

Sex Pistols

The Yard Birds

Iggy Pop

Motley Crue

Aerosmith

Metallica

Guns N' Roses

The Black Crowes

Megadeth

Slayer

Nirvana

Pearl Jam

Skid Row

Red Hot Chili Peppers

Pantera

Sepultura

Stone Temple Pilots

Soundgarden

Poison

Warrant

Bon Jovi

Gin Blossoms

Collective Soul

Toad The Wet Sprocket

Dishwalla

Soul Asylum

Green Day

Rage Against The Machine

Korn

Oasis

Cold Play

Creed

Nickelback

Incubus

Now here's my all-time top 5 favorites:

Pearl Jam - This band is the real deal in rock music. The modern Led Zeppelin.

Metallica - The king of heavy/thrash metal. In their heyday, they're untouchables.

Guns N' Roses - America's last great rock-and-roll band. GNR's music is like a hybrid of Rolling Stones and Queen's.

Toad The Wet Sprocket - One of the best and underrated alternative folk rock bands in my opinion. A great band!

Nirvana - America's last great rock band. Legendary.

Honorable mention to The Black Crowes. I love their traditional rock-n-roll music.