i need to reiterate something i've said a few times...

i don't think i've ever actually listened to a metallica record from start to finish.

if i have, it was at a party when i was young, and it was incidental; i don't remember it.

i mean, i have a general idea; enough to realize it's not worth bothering with.

but, i actually suspect i'd like their later material better than their early material.

so, interpret my reviews of self-identified metal-spectrum artists as you will.