...And Justice for All

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waned over the years a bit because i mean you listen to gosh and justice for all or i was just thinking about that you know kill them all ride you know all that old stuff you know, one.

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exactly what I was thinking of.

When I listened to Nothing Else Matters, because I was like, oh, God, I'm so burned out on that song now because I'm hearing it live.

But I thought I enjoyed it more on the album than I did hearing it live.

So I listened to And Justice For All, which I thoroughly enjoyed because I love that album.

That was one of the first albums I ever heard by them, of course.

This is the famous, okay, Injustice for All.

We talked about this album way, way back in the infantile stages of this podcast about 850 years ago.

Go listen to that one.

It's a pretty interesting listen.

This is before we knew how to podcast.

We were just kind of throwing some shit down, and we decided to talk about the No Bass album, which that's right.

This is the No Bass album.

And so...

Two years later, Metallica would follow up Master of Puppets and turn their attention to the machinery that allows these issues.

Released in 1988 and Justice for All is consumed by corruption, institutional failure and the abuse of power.

Like Master of Puppets, the album cover mirrors the record's central themes.

The image of Lady Justice is subverted, standing bound and battered, her scales unbalanced, her body tied together by ropes.

In our previous episode on Fontaine's DC's dopamine chamber, we spoke about the importance of escapism and the need for an outlet to all this input.

But the dissonance here lies in the art, between the band Metallica once were and the institution they've become.

This is the same trash metal enfant terrible that conquered the world and made Master of Puppets and Justice for All and The Black Album.

A band that once stood beneath a giant statue of Lady Justice as it crumbled to the ground during a performance of its own music.

Yeah, so Sabbath True kind of has the hammers coming down, or gavels.

In terms of, like, some of the songs that they played on night one, you know, Justice for All is not an easy song to play.

It's not technically hard, but it's just very long.

a lot of parts.

So even though I've seen it a few times, I'm pretty stoked that I'm going to get to see that on night two.

yeah me too any of the justice songs it's it's a good time

because i mean yeah dude if you think about both nights for you being a big justice guy you get shortest straw and justice for all blackened harvester of sorrow one shit that's half the album

i know that was great it was awesome the harvester of sorrow was awesome

if he just did if he just didn't say i like like i'm not here like some other entertainers to influence you with our i think the statement wouldn't have gotten the press that it got And like you said, Darren, there's plenty of politics in Metallica's music.

They've released an album called And Justice for All.

They have plenty of anti-war songs.

Pro-war songs.

Uh, you would never get to any songs.

Just because you wrote "Justice For All" doesn't mean you have to make-- you have to spend three minutes of the show making a speech about the Third Amendment.

Um, the lyrics should speak for themselves.

But it's been interesting, the reaction, and so let's try and frame some of that, and let's try and get to this freezing effect idea.

And you know, that's the other thing here, too.

Um, maybe I'll pull up some of the, uh, the Metallica lyrics, especially from And Justice for All in 2000, i- in 1989, in the second half of the show or something.

Because they've gotten political in the past, but not partisan.

It's one thing to talk about fears about special interests in government and how the whole damn thing might be an illusion that does not include you, that even the parties and even the sides that you're told you need to take on one issue or another, uh, are, are, i- is a, is a mirage, is not real.

Reveal dementia, reveal.

Secretly, silently, certainly in vertigo you will be." Hold on, uh, hold on.

And Justice For All.

How about Just- And Justice For All lyrics? It's just like you, you, you don't need this s- And everybody can use this.

But again, especially what's going on with Ed Sheeran and Malcolm Moore just seemed like sort of poor timing.

JazzGuitar34 said, same band that wrote Injustice For All, by the way.

Yeah, a lot of the comments were pointing towards Metallica's past discography and especially pointing towards albums like Injustice For All and Master of Puppets, saying that those are very politically charged albums and songs.

But again, even those songs, I would say, are very vague in political nature.

They're very more broad.