Introducing the FODM - Forbidden Arguments for Dissing Metallica

I think it's time to retire the argument about how the Black album ruined Metallica because it was released 26 years, 5 months, 3 weeks, 2 days (9673 days) ago. Focusing on that is like focusing on how "Music from The Elder" ruined KISS! These "Bob Rock ruined the band" statements need to exist only within a 'forbidden arguments for dissing Metallica' coffin! I'm getting really tired of reading articles - MEGADETH's DAVE MUSTAINE Would Love To Play 'Big Four' Show Where All Bands 'Got Treated Fairly' January 30, 2018 - and seeing how, once again, the comments left by readers on the article include the same old antiquated argument: Metallica doesn't play their music with heart, which implies the band is playing on auto-pilot and only playing music for the money, and the source for all of that is Bob Rock:

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First, the "Black" album was released in 1991, not 1990. The band was playing an awesome setlist in 1990:

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Setlist

1. Creeping Death
2. For Whom the Bell Tolls
3. Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
4. Harvester of Sorrow
5. No Remorse Short Version
6. The Four Horsemen
7. The Shortest Straw
8. Bass Solo
9. Whiplash
10. Fade to Black
11. Seek and Destroy
12. Blackened

Encore

1. One
2. Master of Puppets
3. Guitar Solo
4. Battery

Encore #2

1. Last Caress
2. Am I Evil?
3. Motorbreath

Encore #3

1. Breadfan
2. Blitzkrieg

Source: https://www.metallica.com/tour/9706

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Someone open the lid of the FODM and throw these shitty arguments about Metallica into their final resting place!

Editor's Note: While not specifically bashing Lars Ulrich in Dan Maier's post, the "Lars Lashings" was applied to group this post with other posts discussing negative comments about Metallica.