There’s “determined”, then there’s whatever the hell “climbing off of a surgery table to prove someone wrong” is ...

"Cliff was the strongest of the four of us emotionally," Lars said. "And if he saw us sit around and feel sorry for ourselves ...

The album never slows down to breathe and inhabit an idea– it just leaps to some new style, genre or song. The music is playing, but there’s no momentum and the listener is left idling for an hour.

The art of every good song is subtlety, but these albums decided to turn every single thing up to ten throughout their runtimes.