Man I loved them right through And Justice For All. The Black Album to my mind was right where they went to crap. It was amazing to me how much they changed from one album to the next. Master of Puppets is still one of my all time favorite metal albums, The Thing That Should Not Be is just fantastic. I'll have to pass on anything new yet again, everything I've heard of theirs for years has just been steadily worse. I think I'll go listen to some of their old stuff now.
I agree on Master's, but picking and choosing through the next albums is all one can do.
However, SNM being that I like classical, was a nice blend. Some of those songs, sound killer with the violins. Just my opinion