While not overall my favorite album, I would agree that Master of Puppets is without question the album you should start with and then move away from it in both directions. Puppets->Lighting+Justice->Kill 'em All+Black Album->Load->ReLoad->St. Anger->Death Magnetic. If you're like some of us, you might just stop with the third iteration and ignore anything past the Black Album, but as I'm sure you've noticed from this thread, there are a lot of disagreements about the merits of later Metallica.
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