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Title: Something's missing......
Review: This album represents Metallica's commercial peak, but can it live up to their classic 80's albums? A reasonably close comparison proves, sadly, no. While working on excellent radio songs such as "Enter Sandman" and "Nothing Else Matters", the Sandmen have an unforgiven amount of songs that are half-baked in structure, and lyrically. "The Struggle Within" suffers from unbalanced, rushed choruses that are fugly to listen to, and some songs such as "through the never" "of wolf and man" are so pretentious, they will have diehards howling louder than the shape-shifting wolf.And then some of the songs are only as good as their (then) new approach will allow. What I mean is that this album is less electrifying than such Sandmen classics as Ride the Lightning or Master of Puppets. I'll admit that it's mostly extremely well done, but the spark is missing....
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