The band's first album with Newsted, ...And Justice for All was marked by the band's increasingly progressive and technically intricate bent – and barely audible bass parts ...

Why Metallica Changed Their Musical Mission After ‘And Justice for All ... Ulrich reflects on the shift in the Black Album explaining, “I look at it very practically.

Even Kirk Hammett's mind is continuously occupied by a "what if" scenario surrounding the historic 1988 album, wondering what it would've sounded like if Cliff Burton had been alive to play on it.