Metallica vs Megadeth, Round 2: Black versus Countdown.

The Black album, AKA Metallica, is a decisive album.  It is the great discussion point.  Selling out, versus experimentation, death of a legend, or birthing moment of a giant.  Metallica the brand took off at this point, even if some of the followers did too.  I was awaiting this match up, so were a bunch of people.
This would challenge our notions of open mindedness, much like our Endgame vs Death Magnetic battle before. 
At this point, I must confess.  Back in ye olde days, I got Black and was ready for AJFA Metallica, not The Brand Metallica.  Without Cliff (RIP) around to help it be James' band, it became Lars band.  This was the dawning of a new age, one where Metallica would take over the world.
But Megadeth, Dave's little band that could, there was evolution as well.  But Dave's more conservative nature, instead of jumping from AJFA to Black, it took him another 2 albums and 7 years before Risk.  That evolution produced two amazing albums (after the MBC Bad Jimmy gave me his Youthansia CD, another triumph by Dave), and Dave figured things out.
So the session on these two Titans of the metal genre was pretty straight forwards.  The Kid loved Black, and it was his first true metal purchase.  He wore out his CD and there was nothing that could displace it from being his vote.  Dave's voice gets to The Kid, so it's understandable he would go this way.
But everyone else thought Countdown was the better album.  Comments like "tighter writing", "still metal and not hard rock", "you can hear the bass", "lyrically it's a hot mess", "Dave's masterpiece" were thrown out.
Making the vote not even close.  It was something like 7 to 2.
Meaning Megadeth had won the first two rounds.  With only one round to go, something was clear.  So we talked about it.  And cancelled round 3.  We already had a champion, Megadeth, and a quick discussion of the last pair (Peace Sells vs Master of Puppets) wasn't even a close one.  (9 to 0 for Master).  So we called it.
Best Album:  Master of Puppets.  Truly a work for the ages. 
Better METAL band?

Megadeth.
That was our conclusion, now it's your chance to discuss!