Garage Inc.
by Metallica

Garage Inc. by Metallica
Year: 1998
Overall rank: 6,680th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
69/100 (from 224 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1998 (108th)
Award Top albums of the 1990s (1,080th)
Award Best albums of all time (6,680th)

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Garage Inc. is ranked 12th best out of 30 albums by Metallica on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Metallica is Master Of Puppets which is ranked number 93 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 12,410.

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  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 75 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Overall rank: 6,680th | 1990s rank: 1,080th | 1998 rank: 108th

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Average Rating: 
69/100 (from 224 votes)
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03/31/2026 14:31 hunterdietz37  Ratings distribution  6980/100
 
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03/03/2026 07:25 Charlesd  Ratings distribution  6884/100
 
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03/01/2026 04:57 WIMRMet319  Ratings distribution  4078/100
 
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02/28/2026 15:50 DaveH68  Ratings distribution  1,36376/100
 
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12/02/2025 05:56 Olli  Ratings distribution  6,99763/100

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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 68.7/100, a mean average of 67.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 68.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.1.

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From 05/26/2024 01:20 | #303705
By far the best cover album ever and one of my favorite Metallica albums to listen to. It really shouldn’t be rated so low…let alone below St. Anger.
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85/100
From 09/13/2020 00:36 | #258133
I know they're covers, but by god they're brilliant. Some way better than the originals, some not so but overall, this is a fantastic album.
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From 05/09/2015 10:51 | #141126
This album shows, prob more than anything else, how much Metallica took from punk. It's interesting to hear it indeed.
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80/100
From 01/05/2015 12:43 | #130863
One of the best cover albums ever. This was responsible for getting me into both Diamond Head and The Misfits.
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75/100
From 05/04/2014 19:33 | #110768
I absolutely love a number of the songs on here. Others I'd rather not ever hear again. Though part of Metallica's greatness is taking other bands' work and making it better. They did a lot of good with songs like Am I Evil, Breadfan, Helpless, Crash Course in Brain Surgery, the Wait, and Last Caress/Green Hell. Those songs will always be on my Metallica playlist.
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60/100
From 05/06/2012 02:09 | #41601
This is an excellent cover album, some songs new and some old, most of them pretty darn good. Metallica knows how to cover a song well, and this album is good evidence of that.
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