Reelased in 1988 "...And Justice for All" is Metallica's most complex and ambitious work. This is the first Metallica studio album to feature bassist Jason Newsted, since it is the first after the tragic death of the group's former bassist Cliff Burton. The album's dark subject material, featuring references to injustice in the law system, limited freedom, war, insanity and hate, is accompanied by the most complex song structures to this date in Metallica's discography. The album is also noted for its near lack of bass guitar and dry production and therefore has been called a "slightly flawed masterpiece and the pinnacle of Metallica's progressive years" by www.allmusic.com's reviewer.

The cover of this album is also consifdered one their most profund. Ussually, the band's album art implies simple elements such dark colour, lightning, grafitti written words. Toghether with 2002 album "St Anger" 's cover, "And Justice for All" brings Metallica into a whole new level: expressing ideeas and song concepts through the cover of the album.

The front cover of "...And Justice For All" depicts the statue of Lady Justice cracked and bound by ropes, with both of her scales filled with dollars and both of her breasts exposed. The words "…And Justice for All" are written in graffiti to the right. The cover is made by Stephen Gorman after a concept by James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich. It is very clear that this cover expresses that decade's corupted society, as Lady Justice - Iustitia, the Roman Goddess of Justice - is on this cover the oposite of what should actually be: a bare-breasted woman carrying a sword and scales, and sometimes wearing a blindfold, standing in fron of a courtroom (Wiki, AllMusic).

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