(Rated this album with 10 out of 10) Reviewed by
floydianfan
Quite simply the apotheosis of all that was Metal, Thrashing, and, indeed, Mad, MOP is one album that can quite rightly be called genre- defining.From the opening nylon strung strains of Battery, through the crushing title track to the final defiant belch of Damage Inc, this album destroys in a way few others before or since have managed. In many ways it actually destroyed the Thrash Metal movement itself:- what could the good intentioned likes of Metal Church, Testament and Sacred Reich do to top this behemoth? That's right- nothing. And Metallica's peers gave up the ghost too- Anthrax went comedy then grunge, Slayer invented Death Metal and then jumped on the punk bandwagon and Megadeth? They ended up supporting Metallica. There haven't been a great many truly classic albums released in the last twenty years- this is one of them.
