On Saturday, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum welcomes Metallica to the ranks of popular music’s all-time greats. The band did as much as any group to establish and define thrash metal, then gradually slowed down and became one of the world’s biggest rock bands.
To celebrate the Frisco phenoms’ hard-won recognition, Scene presents The Great Metallica Debate. D.X. Ferris, the paper’s designated metalhead, is moderating. He’ll introduce topics, which will be answered by Chris Akin, Classic Metal Show host and webmaster of Pitriff.com, and Matt Wardlaw, former Metal Show host, Radio 92.3 Inner Sanctum host, and proprietor of music blog AddictedToVinyl.com. For the record, we all were into Metallica way before Bob Knight and your little sister.
Aside: The band deserves the recognition, but screw Sirius/XM satellite radio for replacing their metal channel with 24-hour Metallica for a month. The bonehead programmers are doing everything in their power to fuck up their dying company.
Today’s topics: Best Metallica song, and Worst Metallica Song?
Best Song?
Akin: Without question, “Disposable Heroes.” From the machine gun fire opening riffs through the bewildered screams of “Why am I dying” toward the middle, this is the single moment in Metallica’s history where they were able to keep their power, showcase emotion, and just flat out rip it up in a
way no one had done before, and really has done since. While songs like “Battery,” “Master Of Puppets” and really anything else through the black album were fantastic, there’s no denying that “Disposable Heroes” is where they hit it flawlessly. I was especially pleased to see that when Kerrang did their Metallica tribute, they held that one out for Clevelanders Chimaira.
This article appears in Mar 25-31, 2009.
sum 41 and Avril lavigne never covered “Fuel” together , so your opinion is worthless , “snickering” away dick
You’re right! I stand corrected: Avril covered “Fuel” that night, and Sum covered “For Whom the Bell Tolls.” All those punk rockers look the same! But Avril’s married to the Sum guy, so I bet they jam it out in private all the time. — Ferris
Hey Rad, please go drink a glass of AIDS you basement of your mothers house dwelling shit fuck. Ferris, Akin, and Wardlaw have accomplished more in the music journalism world than you will EVER accomplish, they get to meet the artists, while your dork ass is in front of the crowd trying to get your little sister to blow the roadies to get backstage and get autographs from the bands after they pass her around like fratboys do with a bong. Hail and Kill boys…fuck you Rad
Snakemannns dry air box – but at least I get basic facts correct , how hard is that , especially if you remember something as being “funniest thing I’ve ever seen”. which never happened ,
Ferris was good enough to admit a mistake unlike most journalists , so i will take the dick comment back .
but you Snakemannns really need to stop masturbating over big hairy men with long hair , your mother is going to be jealous if she doesn’t get all your love custard.– Rad
Masterbating over who? I’m confused, if it’s the journalists, I know them. hardly masterbating to them…you know, lack of tits and a vag, and the inclusion of a cock just doesn’t do it for me, although I don’t think that would be a problem for you there Marcy Free… If it’s the bands you are referring to. I respect them but there’s no pud pulling to them for the same reasons I don’t do it to Matt, Chris, and DX. (although I will concede to firing off a few thousand knuckle children to Maria from In This Moment) Either way…no dice…mostly I save my Love custard for your mom’s and sister’s faces respectively. And since I assume you have an incestuous relationship with both of them. How’s it taste?
aint my bitch up for debate as a bad song,wow,thats a shocker and a stinker really……this is the most personally treasured song ive ever heard…whatevr ferris is ravin on about,i dont know…wardlaw definetly offers sum respite and was bang on the mark…ones inner hetfield!!!…a prime example of wats prevalent to me from this song!!!