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    Track     Duration Listeners
1 Sad But True (@Live Earth) 5:53 16
2 Nothing Else Matters (@Live Earth) 6:41 71
3 Enter Sandman (@Live Earth) 6:22 26
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Mercury Records Limited (2007) Released: 9 Jul 2007 3 tracks (18:56)
Metallica (also known as The Black Album) is the fifth studio album by the American heavy metal band Metallica, released August 12, 1991 through Elektra Records. It features some of Metallica’s most popular songs, “Enter Sandman”, “The Unforgiven”, “Nothing Else Matters” , “Wherever I May Roam” and “Sad but True”. It spent four consecutive weeks at number one on Billboard 200. Metallica is the band’s best-selling album to date, with over 15 million copies sold in the United States and over 22 million copies worldwide. It is the second best-selling album of the SoundScan era.

The album cover features only the band’s logo, angled against the upper left corner, and a coiled snake (derived from the Gadsden flag) on the bottom right corner, both in a dark shade of gray in order to be made out against the black background. The motto of the Gadsden flag, “Don’t Tread on Me”, is also the title of a song featured on the album.

The cover is very reminiscent of Spinal Tap’s Smell the Glove album, something the band jokingly acknowledged themselves in their A Year and a Half in the Life of Metallica documentary (where members of Spinal Tap appeared and asked them about it).

Metallica DVD-Audio 5.1 mix was released in 2004 through Elektra Records.

While the album and the band were critically praised and commercially successful, some fans expressed disappointment in the new direction taken by Metallica. Gone for the most part were faster staccato riffs during verses and throaty vocals found on the band’s first four albums; the overall speed and complexity of the music was somewhat lessened.
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  • Wuzzly

    "Hard rock? Seriously" uhhh, yeah? It's a hard rock album.

    Thursday morning

  • TheJudasMaster

    Any album that doesn't sound like it was recorded on a tape recorder in someone's basement is 'overproduced' in metal and punk.

    last week

  • GRAMPAPROG

    LOL at this album being "over-produced." It's actually kind of raw.

    20 days ago

  • hadomaru

    Badass album, an instant classic.

    last month

  • rOnieAirhead

    My favorite Metallica's album.

    last month

  • GabrielFrigeri

    This is my favorite album from Metallica.

    last month

  • GabrielFrigeri

    Hard rock? Seriously?

    last month

  • veyita_88

    I think that it has a perfect production,it also has a great atmosphere.

    last month

  • PartySanCTG

    MoP overproduced, hahahahahahahahaha oh wow. You're kidding. It has some grungy sounding guitars, a bass mixed just slightly below the threshhold of human hearing, and some eighties reverby drums. That's overproduction?

    last month

  • BlackMetallizer

    Ride the Lightning is the best.

    last month

  • veyita_88

    How is MoP overproduced? i don´t think so,it´has a clean,clear production but i don´t think is overproduced,but meh,what do i know anyway.

    last month

  • somemusicdude

    Master of Puppets is overproduced. The production on this album fits the style and the intentionally accessible sound.

    last month

  • veyita_88

    Im not sure is overproduced,i think the production is excelent,not overly done,and it adds a heaviness to the songs.I think this is a great album and when you look at it without the stupid elitism snobery that certain people who dislike it (not all) show,this is the logical succesor to And Justice for All.After their most complex and progressive,darker album i thin that a turning point into a more straightforward,more personal and minimalistic aproach,but with great songs and new ideas.Overall i don´t know how someone who is into hard rock or classic heavy metal can not like this even a bit.

    last month

  • maidenmetal1

    It is no by no means heavier than its predeceedors, it is just produced this way, overall this album is kinda incosistent, it has some very underrated good songs like Through the never, the god that failed and my friend of misery, overrated Enter Sandman and so on. Overall, their last good album

    last month

  • KeIemvor

    This isn't heavy, just overproduced. It's basically hard rock.

    March 2012

  • LuizOpbrasil

    I really doubt that they can do an album that's more heavy than that.

    March 2012

  • veyita_88

    The last classic from Metallica.

    March 2012

  • GNR27

    Wuzzly dude. He means heavier, not "heavier", you know...

    March 2012

  • BlackMetallizer

    1 Sad But True (@Live Earth) 5:53 16 2 Nothing Else Matters (@Live Earth) 6:41 65 3 Enter Sandman (@Live Earth) 6:22 26 WTF?

    March 2012

  • Ilan_Negao

    wtf

    March 2012
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