Metallica is heavy rock band or ???????

You know, I've never really understood the obsession with breaking down genres and adding genres all the time and stuff. I mean, I always thought of metallica just as heavy metal. I never even heard of speed metal until fairly recently, and I thought punk involved a certain kind of political statement as well as just the music. Am I missing something here, or am I just getting old? I guess since I like almost every kind of music, I don't really get into the classification thing as much.

Most would say that in the 80s they were thrash metal, in the 90s they were kind of a hard rock/metal hybrid (the self-titled "Black Album" was definitely metal in my opinion, but I'd say that Load and Reload definitely fit this description). St. Anger saw an attempt at returning to their thrash roots, but it was ill received by fans and critics. From the 2 new songs that are floating around on Youtube, it's hard to say what their next album will sound like, but I'm definitely looking forward to it.

Metalica is still band of heavy metal for me. also they play slow musik, but i still belive they are still play heavy metal

thrash metal

i guess they were the metal thrash band when they first entered the music scene but not until they released their black album which has changed the faced of their music to rock metal or heavy rock music

cmon its heavy metal or then classic rock thats all

i think metalica is a dangdut music. because this musik is berisik. and i don not care. i want to break fee. i will never go on. i will go to my favorites music. i can not spell englesh with well.

Clue is in the name. METALlica ;)

hard rock according to them and heavy metal to most