Metallica: ONE Overlooked Song On Every Album

For the thrash purists of the world, the Black Album is the moment that Metallica had truly started to lose their way. Now with Bob Rock coming in and cleaning up their songs, this was marked as downright treasonous by some of the more faithful metalheads, along with raking in tons of new fans who had never been tuned in to the thrash scene to begin with. If you listened beyond Enter Sandman and Nothing Else Matters though, you did get rewarded on Of Wolf and Man.

Stepping out of their usual comfort zone with songs of war and anger, this is James delving into the supernatural, talking about a man who turns into a werewolf every time the full moon comes out. As goofy as that might sound like on paper, it goes over incredibly smoothly in the song, especially with the guitars sounding like the wolf's teeth with their sights aimed right at your eardrums.

After years of songwriting, the shapeshifting section also feels a lot more gradual, going from the calm man beneath the surface to unlocking the pure animal inside. Even when Metallica cleaned things up even more with an orchestra on S&M, Of Wolf and Man was still as sinister as ever. It may be from the "sellout" album, but when you've written a song so badass that a string section can't bring it down, you've hit upon something truly evil.