The guitar solo of "One" was ranked number seven in Guitar World's compilation of the 100 Greatest Guitar Solos of all time. In 2007, the win was named one of the 10 biggest upsets in Grammy history by Entertainment Weekly. The album was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance in 1989, but with much controversy, it lost to Jethro Tull's Crest of a Knave. And Justice for All confirmed Metallica's large-scale arena status. Though it was over-shadowed commercially by the band's following album Metallica (1991). And Justice for All" and " One".And Justice for All was Metallica's breakthrough album and reached number six on the Billboard 200. Metallica released four singles, " Eye of the Beholder", " Harvester of Sorrow", ". And Justice for All was Metallica's best-selling album upon its release. Cannot the kingdom of salvation take me home?") were written by Burton. Still, the second half of the speech ("All this I cannot bear to witness any longer. These are the pale deaths which men miscall their lives.") by Hetfield were written by German poet Paul Gerhardt, but are misattributed to Burton in the liner notes. The words spoken towards the end of the song ("When a man lies, he murders some part of the world. While the original recordings are not used on the track, the compositions are credited as written by Burton and are played by Metallica's bassist at the time, Jason Newsted. Lars Ulrich described the songwriting process as "our CNN years", with him and James Hetfield watching the channel in search for song subjects - " I'd read about the blacklisting thing, we'd get a title, 'The Shortest Straw,' and a song would come out of that."Ĭliff Burton receives co-writers credit on "To Live Is to Die" as the bass line was a medley of unused bass recordings Burton had performed prior to his death. The album is also noted for its nearly-inaudible bass guitar (Newsted was quoted as saying " The Justice album wasn't something that really felt good for me, because you really can't hear the bass.") and dry, sterile production, and therefore has been called a "slightly flawed masterpiece and the pinnacle of Metallica's progressive years" by. The arrangements are particularly complicated for a thrash metal album, being likened to progressive metal in their complexity. This is musically accompanied by what may be the most complex song structures in Metallica's discography. The album's dark lyrical material features a conceptual uniformity around notions of political and legal injustice, as seen through the prism of war, censored speech, and nuclear brinkmanship. The songs were later included on the compilation album Garage, Inc. Clink was credited for engineering the drums and for helping recording two cover songs ("Breadfan" and "The Prince") that were released as b-sides of the " Harvester of Sorrow". But things did not work out as they forecasted: Clink was eventually replaced by Rasmussen once he had become available. Metallica chose not to wait and started working with Mike Clink (who had caught attention as the producer of the Guns N' Roses album Appetite for Destruction). Rasmussen, who had also co-produced the previous Ride the Lightning and Master of Puppets albums, was initially unavailable. And Justice for All was co-produced by Flemming Rasmussen. The cover art was created by Stephen Gorman, based on a concept developed by James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich.And Justice for All was Metallica's final collaboration with longtime producer Flemming Rasmussen.
The words "…And Justice for All" are written in graffiti-like lettering to the right. The front cover depicts the statue of Lady Justice (Doris) cracked, bound by ropes, her breasts exposed, and both of her scales filled with dollars. The relatively poor production on Justice compared to other albums by the band have led some to claim that the album is "flawed". This can be attributed to either poor production or a part of Newsted's "initiation" into the band. At times bassist Jason Newsted's playing is completely inaudible. One of the defining elements of Justice is the extremely low levels of bass. The album deals with many dark themes, including corruption, death, murder, blacklisting, and censorship.And Justice for All can be considered Metallica's most political album, although the band has refrained from taking much of a political stance throughout their history. And Justice for All was released Augby Elektra Records and was the first album to feature bassist Jason Newsted and the last to feature a writing credit by late bassist Cliff Burton. 28th January 1988 – 1st May 1988 at One on One Recording Studios in Los Angeles, The United States
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