The highlight of your complexity

Yes here Metallica have given genuine. So much million different riffs they came up with an album ... no place even in a song, but they produce hits on the assembly line. For a while (after the Black Album) had to play a little pleasure from this CD songs, because they no longer liked the CD, and even some critics found this album too complex and therefore no longer audible Metallica. Since this album Metallica has been criticized more for the first time and this trend has been increasing since then (logically the more famous a band is, the more critical voices there).
But the fact is that what Metallica Metal is possible shown with ... And Justice For All. Sophisticated metal can hardly be. Furthermore, Metallica have posted on this album best song of her career: "One". One constitutes everything what METAL and Metallica is. Melodic quiet Parts, unbridled aggression, a logical structure with a climax that will not quit!
The other songs are all very good and Metallica were at the time just the power of the Metal area, they could prove that they were also without their bassist Cliff About (RIP) still able to make good music!