Metallica: 10 Most Brutally Heavy Songs - Ranked

Say what you want to about Metallica's albums as a whole, but their 80's heyday showed how good they were at writing closing tracks. And Justice For All is known as the album where the band started to expand their songs to colossal lengths, but this short and sweet final charge is the perfect blend of extreme metal and typical thrash.

From the word go, this song pummels you with one of the best openings on the record, right before the tempo changes to one of the fastest the band has ever laid down. Anyone who has ever given Lars an earful for his shoddy drumming needs to listen to this track, with the double bass drums pounding away throughout each of the verses.

For as killer as the instrumentation is, the actual lyrics are not as deep, dealing with nothing more than yelling at your parents for the way you've been treated while living at home. In a strange reversal, the chorus actually gives you a second to breath before going back into the mayhem for more.

This was probably the most ferocious Metallica song that they had written in a long time. Who knew that a change in scenery was just around the corner?