Metallica

Metallica is a band that doesn't hold back. 70 of 85 songs hit intense — this is music that demands something from you.

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Avg Intensity
85
Songs Decoded
1
Fan Stories

The songs that hit hardest

Hit the Lights intense
harsh texture · moderate changes · DR 9 · 1983
Jump in the Fire intense
layered texture · moderate changes · DR 8 · 1983
Metal Militia intense
harsh texture · moderate changes · DR 9 · 1983
Motorbreath intense
harsh texture · moderate changes · DR 8 · 1983
No Remorse intense
complex texture · moderate changes · DR 8 · 1983
Phantom Lord intense
harsh texture · moderate changes · DR 8 · 1983
Seek & Destroy intense
layered texture · none changes · DR 7 · 1983
Seek & Destroy intense
harsh texture · moderate changes · DR 9 · 1983
The Four Horsemen intense
harsh texture · moderate changes · DR 9 · 1983
Whiplash intense
harsh texture · moderate changes · DR 9 · 1983
Creeping Death intense
complex texture · frequent changes · DR 8 · 1984
Escape intense
layered texture · moderate changes · DR 8 · 1984
Fight Fire with Fire intense
harsh texture · extreme changes · DR 9 · 1984
Ride the Lightning intense
layered texture · moderate changes · DR 9 · 1984
The Call of Ktulu intense
complex texture · moderate changes · DR 8 · 1984
Trapped Under Ice intense
layered texture · frequent changes · DR 9 · 1984
Battery intense
complex texture · extreme changes · DR 9 · 1986
Damage, Inc. intense
harsh texture · extreme changes · DR 9 · 1986
Disposable Heroes intense
layered texture · moderate changes · DR 9 · 1986
Leper Messiah intense
complex texture · moderate changes · DR 8 · 1986
Master of Puppets intense
complex texture · frequent changes · DR 9 · 1986
Orion intense
layered texture · moderate changes · DR 8 · 1986
The Thing That Should Not Be intense
complex texture · mild changes · DR 8 · 1986
Welcome Home (Sanitarium) intense
layered texture · moderate changes · DR 8 · 1986
...And Justice for All intense
complex texture · moderate changes · DR 9 · 1988
Blackened intense
complex texture · frequent changes · DR 9 · 1988
Dyers Eve intense
complex texture · moderate changes · DR 9 · 1988
Eye of the Beholder intense
complex texture · extreme changes · DR 8 · 1988
Harvester of Sorrow intense
layered texture · moderate changes · DR 8 · 1988
One intense
complex texture · frequent changes · DR 8 · 1988
The Frayed Ends of Sanity intense
complex texture · moderate changes · DR 8 · 1988
Enter Sandman intense
complex texture · frequent changes · DR 8 · 1991
Of Wolf and Man intense
layered texture · moderate changes · DR 8 · 1991
Sad But True intense
harsh texture · mild changes · DR 8 · 1991
The God That Failed intense
layered texture · moderate changes · DR 8 · 1991
Wherever I May Roam intense
layered texture · moderate changes · DR 8 · 1991
Bleeding Me intense
layered texture · moderate changes · DR 9 · 1996
King Nothing intense
layered texture · moderate changes · DR 8 · 1996
The Outlaw Torn intense
layered texture · moderate changes · DR 9 · 1996
Fuel intense
layered texture · moderate changes · DR 8 · 1997
The Memory Remains intense
layered texture · moderate changes · DR 8 · 1997
Where the Wild Things Are intense
layered texture · moderate changes · DR 8 · 1997
All Within My Hands intense
layered texture · moderate changes · DR 8 · 2003
Frantic intense
harsh texture · moderate changes · DR 9 · 2003
Some Kind of Monster intense
harsh texture · moderate changes · DR 9 · 2003
St. Anger intense
harsh texture · moderate changes · DR 8 · 2003
The Unnamed Feeling intense
layered texture · moderate changes · DR 8 · 2003
All Nightmare Long intense
layered texture · moderate changes · DR 9 · 2008
Broken, Beat & Scarred intense
layered texture · moderate changes · DR 9 · 2008
Cyanide intense
layered texture · moderate changes · DR 8 · 2008
My Apocalypse intense
harsh texture · frequent changes · DR 9 · 2008
Suicide & Redemption intense
complex texture · moderate changes · DR 9 · 2008
That Was Just Your Life intense
layered texture · moderate changes · DR 9 · 2008
The Judas Kiss intense
layered texture · moderate changes · DR 8 · 2008
Am I Savage? intense
layered texture · moderate changes · DR 9 · 2016
Atlas, Rise! intense
layered texture · moderate changes · DR 8 · 2016
Dream No More intense
layered texture · moderate changes · DR 8 · 2016
Halo on Fire intense
layered texture · moderate changes · DR 9 · 2016
Hardwired intense
harsh texture · moderate changes · DR 9 · 2016
ManUNkind intense
layered texture · moderate changes · DR 8 · 2016
Moth Into Flame intense
layered texture · moderate changes · DR 8 · 2016
Now That We're Dead intense
layered texture · moderate changes · DR 8 · 2016
Spit Out the Bone intense
harsh texture · frequent changes · DR 9 · 2016
72 Seasons intense
layered texture · moderate changes · DR 8 · 2023
If Darkness Had a Son intense
layered texture · moderate changes · DR 8 · 2023
Lux Æterna intense
layered texture · moderate changes · DR 8 · 2023
Room of Mirrors intense
layered texture · moderate changes · DR 8 · 2023
Screaming Suicide intense
layered texture · moderate changes · DR 9 · 2023
Too Far Gone? intense
layered texture · moderate changes · DR 8 · 2023
Inamorata intense
layered texture · moderate changes · DR 9 · 2024

The controlled burn

Fade to Black moderate
smooth texture · mild changes · DR 7 · 1984
For Whom the Bell Tolls moderate
complex texture · moderate changes · DR 8 · 1984
To Live Is to Die moderate
layered texture · mild changes · DR 7 · 1988
Enter Sandman moderate
layered texture · moderate changes · DR 8 · 1991
My Friend of Misery moderate
layered texture · mild changes · DR 6 · 1991
Nothing Else Matters moderate
smooth texture · none changes · DR 7 · 1991
The Unforgiven moderate
layered texture · mild changes · DR 8 · 1991
Hero of the Day moderate
layered texture · mild changes · DR 7 · 1996
Until It Sleeps moderate
layered texture · mild changes · DR 7 · 1996
Low Man's Lyric moderate
layered texture · mild changes · DR 5 · 1997
The Unforgiven II moderate
layered texture · moderate changes · DR 7 · 1997
Whiskey in the Jar moderate
smooth texture · none changes · DR 6 · 1998
The Day That Never Comes moderate
layered texture · mild changes · DR 8 · 2008
The Unforgiven III moderate
layered texture · mild changes · DR 7 · 2008

The quiet ones

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"Never opened myself this way"

I played this at my wedding. People were confused because it is Metallica. But the lyrics are the most sincere love song I know. Never opened myself this way. That is what marriage is.

Dave — Pittsburgh

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