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Metallica And Justice For All Tales of rage and war await you in your nearest music store. Before Metallica rocked MTV with their over-played hit Enter Sandman, they introduced their new bass player Jason Newsted, originally from Flotsam And Jetsam, with the blistering classic album And Justice For All. The album explodes with the haunting, apocalyptic melodies of Blackened, which gives a different environmental view with powerful lyrics like Blackened is the end/Winter it will send/Throwing all you see/Into obscurity Termination, expiration, cancellation-human race See our mother/Put to death/See our mother die. Following are some more optimistic little ditties: And Justice For All about our deteriorating court system, Eye of The Beholder about how censors enjoy twisting words against you (Freedom of choice is made for you my friend/ Freedom of speech is words that they will bend/Freedom no longer frees you), and One which is a tribute to the classic anti-war novel, Johnny Got His Gun, about a war casualty being kept alive by a life-support machine. We will write a custom essay sample on And Justice For All or any similar topic specifically for you Do Not WasteYour Time HIRE WRITER Only 13.90 / page Some of the other songs meanings have evaded me slightly. The Shortest Straw is a little too repetitive for my liking. Harvester Of Sorrow and The Frayed Ends of Sanity contain classic Metallica topics: death and insanity respectively. Following Frayed Ends is an instrumental tribute to their late bass player Cliff Burton, who was killed in a bus crash in Europe in 1986. It is called To Live is to Die, which contains their last Burton-esque bass solo. The last song on the album is a hateful song called Dyers Eve about child abuse. Dyers Eve surpasses the power of Blackened with words such as Dear Mother, Dear Father /You clipped my wings before I learned to fly/Unspoiled, unspoken/Ive outgrown that f**king lullaby Innocence torn from me without your shelter, and blisteringly fast riffs. Unlike their self-titled release, And Justice For All is not for the meek or the mild- mannered. For those who like their metal hard and fast, but with enough talent and intelligence to balance the noise, this album is for you. There are no songs like Enter Sandman on this, so for those who were introduced to Metallicas lighter material, consider yourself warned. This album is harsh, violent, and brutal, but then again, so is life. . Review by K. L., Old Orchard Beach, ME