Love 'em or hate 'em Metallica's name and music will live on even after the Beatles have been forgotten. Metallica, like the Beatles went through phases...not every Metallica fan likes EVERY SONG. I must admit that there are songs on every album that I think are below them. But this is the nature of recording artists and humans in general...nothing is perfect. But the good and awesome songs outweigh the the ones that I think suck. Some songs will never/rarely be played live and for good reason. But overall, Metallica is probably the greatest Heavy Metal/Thrash Metal band of all-time. Nobody kicks your teeth in harder than Metallica live...except maybe Slayer and Megadeth. But what makes Metallica awesome is that they have a variety of songs, they're not one-dimensional at all.

one of my favorite bands but not the best, definitely overrated, but not as much as the Beatles.

Well, they started off with 4 amazing Thrash Metal albums, practically inventing the genre. Then they went mainstream with the black albym selling 15 million copies becoming probably the biggest metal ever. They they shit themselves. Many metal fans would never have listened to thrash metal if it if it wasn't for Metallica's black album.

The music was cool in the early years. But they get way too much airplay. The stuff they play now is lame. St. Anger? What the hell was that supposed to be? AND they cut their hair. The name Metallica now is used as a symbol of being tough. I know people who say they listen to Metallica not because they like it but because they think that it is just cool to say that they listen to it. Everybody always gets on a bandwagon. Well I'm on the Megadeth bandwagon. Who is with me?