METALLICA – … And Justice For All [2xLP remastered for vinyl] (2024) *HQ*

METALLICA is reissuing their 1988 album “…And Justice For All” as a special 2LP pressing. This release is part of an ongoing campaign to press their first five studio albums on special limited edition coloured vinyl.
This release uses the 2018 remastering, but the one specially done for vinyl, overseen by producer / engineer Greg Fidelman. While Flemming Rasmussen production of “…And Justice For All” is impeccable, somehow the bass tracks were buried in the mix. That ‘bass presence’ was corrected with this remaster – however, none format reproduce the harmonics like a vinyl LP.
So here’s a rip from the 2-LP / 4-sided release, natural, not post-processed, as it comes from the turntable.

“…And Justice For All” is one of Metallica’s greatest masterworks. Its songs are lengthy, nuanced statements on political devolution (the title track and “Eye of the Beholder”), the atrocities of war (the single “One”) and dealing badly with difficult family lives (“Dyers Eve,” “Harvester of Sorrow”).
The music is especially intricate, with deftly constructed movements and difficult time signatures well outside the usual rock & roll head-bobbing beats — quite an accomplishment for a bunch of guys from California in their mid-twenties.

Since its release, many of the tracks have become set-list staples for the group, and it’s been certified eight-times platinum, making it the second-best selling record in the band’s catalogue. It’s ranked high on Rolling Stone’s list of the Greatest Metal Albums of All Time, and “One,” with its chest-rattling machine-gun drumming and traumatizing lyrics, has been covered by everyone from Korn to the acoustic flamenco duo Rodrigo y Gabriela.
It’s the record that broke Metallica into the mainstream, yet it had one flaw that has trailed it for the last three decades: it has practically no bass guitar.

What (then) new bass player Jason Newsted recorded for the album was brilliant – it just was not audible on the finished mix. Co-producer Flemming Rasmussen said in 2016: “I’m probably one of the only people in the world, including Jason and Toby Wright, the assistant engineer, who heard the bass tracks on … And Justice for All, a big mistake.”
Well, this is solved in part with this remaster, in fact all the album sounds clearer, defined – and better on LP.
Classic

A1. BLACKENED
A2. …AND JUSTICE FOR ALL

B1. EYE OF THE BEHOLDER
B2. ONE

C1. THE SHORTEST STRAW
C2. HARVESTER OF SORROW
C3. THE FRAYED ENDS OF SANITY

D1. TO LIVE IS TO DIE
D2. DYERS EVE

James Hetfield – vocals, rhythm guitar, production
Kirk Hammett – lead guitar
Jason Newsted – bass
Lars Ulrich – drums, production

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