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Il 27 Settembre 1986, nei pressi del paesino danese di Ljungby, muore in un incidente stradale, l’eccentrico bassista dei Metallica, Cliff Burton.
Dopo una incerta pausa lunga quasi 2 anni, Ulrich e co. scrivono, insieme al nuovo bassista Newsted, una delle pagine più belle nella storia del metal. Come un fulmine a cielo sereno, come una Ferrari che scorazza via a 280km per il centro della città,…”And justice for all” arriva è devasta il mondo!
Una pulizia del suono invidiabile, tecnica a livelli altissimi, testi ispirati e perfettamente integrati! I metallica creano un album preciso, ma complesso allo stesso tempo; cupo, oscuro, cattivo, veloce! Semplicemente perfetto!
Un lavoro, che si differenzia da 3 precedenti album, per l’elaborazione, per la ricerca di nuove frontiere nella musica, per la sonorità, che và molto sullo speed-metal, mantenendo le radici THRASH!
Un disco che ha fatto, fa e farà la gioia di ogni batterista. Lars Ulrich , manager-batterista della band di San Francisco, compie veri e propri miracoli, tenendo, con la sua “Tama
Kirk Hammet, invece ci regala, assieme a Hetfield, melodie e riff storici, e assoli che fanno venire la voglia di pogare.
Il nuovo bassista, Jason Newsted, soprannominato dai fans “the new kid boys”, si adatta benissimo allo spirito della band, stando dietro a ritmi velocissimi e potenti. Non è mai stato l’erede di Cliff, nessuno lo ha mai messo sullo stesso piano del suo precedessore, ma ha sempre fatto il suo dovere, in 12 anni di alti e bassi della metal band.
Nel 1989, anno dell’uscita dell’album, molti videro in “And justice for all”, il disco della svolta, sia in negativo che in positivo. Infatti i critici vedano questo (capo)lavoro, come un tradimento delle sonorità di “Master of puppets”, ma contemporaneamente si contraddicevano, annunciandolo come l’album più bello, che segnava l’ascesa verso il successo, grazie ad un suono mai visto prima.
Canzoni storiche sono presenti nel disco. Si incomincia con la cupa “Blackened”, con un intro silenzioso e un outro galvanizzante! Un assolo, quello di Blackned, fra i più belli ideati da Kirk. La title-track, con il suo sarcasmo, nella voce di Hetfield, nei testi, nella musica. La tambureggiante “Eye of the beholder”, con il suo ritornello inneggiante alla libertà. Traccia n°4..la stupenda “One”, la ballad che parte triste e sfocia in pura rabbia, esperimento già riuscito con “Fade to black” e “Welcome Home- Sanitarium”. Un pezzo bellissimo che rievoca il dolore della guerra. Devastante “the shortest strow”, che all’inizio tuona come poche altre song. Con il suo continuo “Stop and go” e le sue frustate, “Harvester of sorrow”, ci fa capire come l’amore si trasforma in odio. “The frayed ends of sanity” è la traccia più strana dell’album, musicalmente, negli effetti e nei testi. Lo spirito è sempre molto “battente”. Il ritornello non sfigurerebbe in una canzone black – metal. Il culmine della tecnica e dell’emozione viene raggiunto con “To live is to die, l’ultima canzone composta da Burton. La batteria fa la parte di un direttore d’orchestra, dando i tempi ad arpeggi commoventi, effetti di violino e assoli di chitarra sublimi. Indimenticabile il pensiero di Cliff Burton, “narrato” da James nella track. “Dyers eve”, sembra uscita dall’inferno, con una velocità assurda, che ricorda molto “Damage inc”.
Forse l’ultimo, vero, stupendo, indimenticabile capolavoro dei Metallica……………………….facciamo gli scongiuri… “When a man lies he murders some part of the world. These are the pale deaths which men miscall their lives. All this I cannot bear to witness any longer. Cannot the kingdom of salvation, take me home?”….
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01 Blackened (06:43)
Blackened is the end
Winter it will send
Throwing all you see
Into obscurity
Death of Mother Earth
Never a rebirth
Evolution's End
Never will it mend
Never
Fire
To begin whipping dance of the dead
Blackened is the end
To begin whipping dance of the dead
Color our world blackened
Blistering of Earth
Terminate its worth
Deadly nicotine
Kills what might have been
Callous frigid chill
Nothing left to kill
Never seen before
Breathing nevermore
Never
Fire
To begin whipping dance of the dead
Blackened is the end
To begin whipping dance of the dead
Color our world blackened
Blackened
Opposition (opposition)
Contradiction (contradiction)
Premonition (premonition)
Compromise
Agitation (agitation)
Violation (violation)
Mutilation (mutilation)
Planet Dies
Darkest color
Blistered Earth
True death of life
Termination (termination)
Expiration (expiration)
Cancellation (cancellation)
Human Race
Expectation (expectation)
Liberation (liberation)
Population (population)
Lay to waste
See our mother
Put to death
See our mother die
-Solo-
Smoldering decay
Take your breath away
Millions of our years
In minutes disappears
Darkening in vain
Decadence remains
All is said and done
Never is the sun
Never
Fire
To begin whipping dance of the dead
Blackened is the end
To begin whipping dance of the dead
Fire
Is the outcome of hypocrisy
Darkest potency
In the exit of humanity
Color our world blackened
Blackened
02 ...and Justice for All (09:45)
Halls of justice painted green
Money talking
Power wolves beset your door
Hear them stalking
Soon you'll please their appetite
They devour
Hammer of justice crushes you
Overpower
The ultimate in vanity
Exploiting their supremacy
I can't believe the things you say
I can't believe
I can't believe the price you pay
Nothing can save you
Justice is lost
Justice is raped
Justice is gone
Pulling your strings
Justice is done
Seeking no truth
Winning is all
Find it so grim
So true
So real
Apathy their stepping stone
So unfeeling
Hidden deep animosity
So deceiving
Through your eyes their light burns
Hoping to find
Inquisition sinking you
With prying minds
The ultimate in vanity
Exploiting their supremacy
I can't believe the things you say
I can't believe
I can't believe the price you pay
Nothing can save you
Justice is lost
Justice is raped
Justice is gone
Pulling your strings
Justice is done
Seeking no truth
Winning is all
Find it so grim
So true
So real
Lady Justice has been raped
Truth assassin
Rolls of red tape seal your lips
Now you're done in
Their money tips her scales again
Make your deal
Just what is truth? I cannot tell
Cannot feel
The ultimate in vanity
Exploiting their supremacy
I can't believe the things you say
I can't believe
I can't believe the price we pay
Nothing can save us
Justice is lost
Justice is raped
Justice is gone
Pulling your strings
Justice is done
Seeking no truth
Winning is all
Find it so grim
So true
So real
Seeking no truth
Winning is all
Find it so grim
So true
So real
03 Eye of the Beholder (06:25)
Do you see what I see?
Truth is an offence
Your silence for your confidence
Do you hear what I hear?
Doors are slamming shut
Limit your imagination, keep you where they must
Do you feel what I feel?
Bittering distress
Who decides what you express?
Do you take what I take?
Endurance is the word
Moving back instead of forward seems to me absurd
Doesn't matter what you see
Or into it what you read
You can do it your own way
If it's done just how I say
Independence limited
Freedom of choice is made for you my friend
Freedom of speech is words that they will bend
Freedom with their exception
Do you fear what I fear?
Living properly
Truths to you are lies to me
Do you choose what I choose?
More alternatives
Energy derives from both the plus and negative
Do you need what I need?
Boundaries overthrown
Look inside, to each his own
Do you trust what I trust?
Me, myself, and I
Penetrate the smoke screen, I see through the selfish lie
Doesn't matter what you see
Or into it what you read
You can do it your own way
If it's done just how I say
Independence limited
Freedom of choice is made for you my friend
Freedom of speech is words that they will bend
Freedom with their exception
Do you know what I know?
Your money and your wealth
Your silent just to hear yourself
Do you want what I want?
Desire not a thing
I hunger after independence, lengthen freedom's ring
Doesn't matter what you see
Or into it what you read
You can do it your own way
If it's done just how I say
Independence limited
Freedom of choice is made for you my friend
Freedom of speech is words that they will bend
Freedom no longer frees you
Doesn't matter what you see
Or into it what you read
You can do it your own way
If it's done just how I say
04 One (07:26)
I can't remember anything
Can't tell if this is true or a dream
Deep down inside I feel to scream
This terrible silence stops with me
Now that the war is through with me
I'm waking up, I cannot see
That there's not much left of me
Nothing is real but pain now
Hold my breath as I wish for death
Oh please God, wake me
Back in the womb it's much too real
In pumps life that I must feel
But can't look forward to reveal
Look to the time when I'll live
Fed through the tube that sticks in me
Just like a wartime novelty
Tied to machines that make me be
Cut this life off from me
Hold my breath as I wish for death
Oh please God, wake me
Now the world is gone I'm just one
Oh God help me
Hold my breath as I wish for death
Oh please God, help me
Darkness
Imprisoning me
All that I see
Absolute horror
I cannot live
I cannot die
Trapped in myself
Body my holding cell
Landmine has taken my sight
Taken my speech
Taken my hearing
Taken my arms
Taken my legs
Taken my soul
Left me with life in hell
05 The Shortest Straw (06:35)
Suspicion is your name
Your honesty to blame
Put dignity to shame
Dishonor
Witchhunt, modern day
Determining decay
The blatant disarray
Disfigure
The public eyes' disgrace
Defying common place
Unending paper chase
Unending
Deafening
Painstaking
Wreckening
This vertigo it doth bring
Shortest straw
Challenge liberty
Downed by law
Live in infamy
Rub you raw
Witchhunt riding through
Shortest straw
This shortest straw has been pulled for you
Pulled for you
Shortest straw
Pulled for you
Shortest straw
Pulled for you
Shortest straw
Shortest straw has been pulled for you
The accusations fly
Discrimination, why?
Your inner self to die
Intruding
Doubt sunk itself in you
It's teeth and talons through
You're living catch-22
Deluding
A mass hysteria
A megalomania
Reveal dementia
Reveal
Secretly
Silently
Certainly
In vertigo you will be
Shortest straw
Challenge liberty
Downed by law
Live in infamy
Rub you raw
Witchhunt riding through
Shortest straw
This shortest straw has been pulled for you
Pulled for you
Shortest straw
Pulled for you
Shortest straw
Pulled for you
Shortest straw
Shortest straw has been pulled for you
Shortest straw
Pulled for you
Shortest straw
Pulled for you
Shortest straw
Pulled for you
Shortest straw
Shortest straw has been pulled for you
Behind you, hands are tied
Your being, ostracized
Your hell is multiplied
Upending
The fallout has begun
Oppressive damage done
Your many turned to none
To nothing
You're reaching your nadir
Your will has disappeared
The lie is crystal clear
Defending
Channels red
One word said
Blacklisted
With vertigo make you dead
Shortest straw
Challenge liberty
Downed by law
Live in infamy
Rub you raw
Witchhunt riding through
Shortest straw
This shortest straw has been pulled for you
06 Harvester of Sorrow (05:45)
My life suffocates
Planting the seeds of hate
I've loved, turned to hate
Trapped far beyond my fate
I give
You take
This life that I forsake
Been cheated of my youth
You turned this lie to truth
Anger
Misery
You'll suffer unto me
Harvester of sorrow
Language of the mad
Harvester of sorrow
Pure black looking clear
My work is done soon here
Try getting back to me
Get back what used to be
Drink up
Shoot in
Let the beatings begin
Distributor of pain
Your loss becomes my gain
Anger
Misery
You'll suffer unto me
Harvester of sorrow
Language of the mad
Harvester of sorrow
All have said their prayers
Invade their nightmares
To see into my eyes
You'll find where murder lies
Infanticide
Harvester of sorrow
Language of the mad
Harvester of sorrow
Language of the mad
Harvester of sorrow
09 Dyers Eve (05:14)
Dear Mother
Dear Father
What is this hell you have put me through
Believer
Deceiver
Day in day out live my life through you
Pushed onto me what's wrong or right
Hidden from this thing that they call life
Dear Mother
Dear Father
Every thought I'd think you'd disapprove
Curator
Dictator
Always censoring my every move
Children are seen but are not heard
Tear out everything inspired
Innocence
Torn from me without your shelter
Barred reality
I'm living blindly
Dear Mother
Dear Father
Time has frozen still what's left to be
Hear nothing
Say nothing
Cannot face the fact I think for me
No guarantee, it's life as is
But damn you for not giving me my chance
Dear Mother
Dear Father
You've clipped my wings before I learned to fly
Unspoiled
Unspoken
I've outgrown that fucking lullaby
Same thing I've always heard from you
Do as I say not as I do
Innocence
Torn from me without your shelter
Barred reality
I'm living blindly
I'm in hell without you
Cannot cope without you two
Shocked at the world that I see
Innocent victim please rescue me
Dear Mother
Dear Father
Hidden in your world you've made for me
I'm seething
I'm bleeding
Ripping wounds in me that never heal
Undying spite I feel for you
Living out this hell you always knew
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Altre recensioni
Di Gianluca_90
"Troppo lungo, alcune canzoni sono un vero mattone da digerire."
"Kill'Em All, Ride The Lightning, Master of Puppets, QUELLI SONO DISCHI CHE SPACCANO VERAMENTE IL CULO!!!!!"
Di evileye9000
"...And Justice For All è il cd più tecnico e musicalmente complesso della band."
"One è indubbiamente tra le migliori canzoni di Hetfield & Co."
Di power85
Sono i metallari più venduti, ripetitivi e a-tecnici che si siano mai visti!
È il miglior album dei Metallica e si eleva fra il resto della loro spazzatura come un faro nel buio ma trema al confronto con gli album degli Iron maiden o dei Judas Priest.
Di Frenk
"A un capolavoro succede un capolavoro, e raccontiamolo."
"Sembra registrato in una scatola di fiammiferi" (riferimento alla produzione, citazione di Ulrich).
Di Thrash_MTL6
"...And Justice For All fa parte di quei lavori che hanno segnato generazioni di appassionati."
"Discostorico che definisce nuovi canoni stilistici e sarà fondamentale per lo sviluppo di correnti future."
