Metallica - Ride the Lightning
:banger:
I see earlier in the thread people talking about the VERY average production on ...And Justice For All, and I gotta agree - if they went back in the studio now and re-recorded that album, it would sound MASSIVE!! The songs on that album are incredible, but the sound quality has robbed it of the 'Puppets' status it deserves.
Anyway, Ride the Lighting - brutal thrash metal, with tip-top production (and it came out 4 years before 'Justice')