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Metallica by Metallica
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Tracklist
| Track | Duration | Listeners | ||||
| 1 | Sad But True (@Live Earth) | 5:53 | 16 | |||
| 2 | Nothing Else Matters (@Live Earth) | 6:41 | 62 | |||
| 3 | Enter Sandman (@Live Earth) | 6:22 | 24 |
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About this album
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.
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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TUROK1134 wrote:
I don't get why people say they sold out with this album. ...And Justice For All sold a shitload of copies, so they didn't have to do anything to make money. So what if they changed their sound? There's nothing wrong with slower and heavier.
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maidenmetal1 wrote:
This is the place where Metallica went downhill !
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steampark12 wrote:
end of the beginning.
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SchWarG wrote:
beginning of the end.
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hadomaru wrote:
My favorite Metallica album, and before you go all "HERESY!" on me, i loved the Thrash Albums too. The only album i don't like of theirs is Lulu.
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morokocyk wrote:
I don't like Jame's voice on this and next albums
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Kanixtant wrote:
Metal Hammer's compilation "Metallica: A Tribute to the Black Album", featuring Doro, Motörhead, Sodom, DevilDriver and others, reviewed at: http://michaelperera.suite101.com/metal-hammer-metallica-a-tribute-to-the-black-album-review-a401659
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Varyags wrote:
Что за херня с треклистом?! [4] Wtf with the tracklist? [11]
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jehf-rock wrote:
Acho que ta mais do que na hora de arrumarem a playlist do cd.
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DDevilized wrote:
v this.
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Jamie_Rae wrote:
I find this album to be part good and part forgettable.
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GothicBowie666 wrote:
hmmm personaly I belief it's indeed not there last good album, but neithere their first bad one, it just open a 'other way' of making there music, and i'm not sure it's a good way, the only thing that was good about this album it open some possibility's in there carriere, and a start too become very famous.. I prefer the thrash metal albums more, but that would never give them the fame they have now.
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Endzeitlager wrote:
As opposed to popular belief not their last good album but rather their first bad one. They gave up their sophisticated speed metal style and made shallow groove rock for the masses instead.
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METALLlCA wrote:
Good album, but not even comparable to the previous thrash albums.
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Axuran wrote:
Their last amazing album. It's a shame they couldn't follow this.
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fatalportrait99 wrote:
Cool album-Don't Tread On Me, Wherever I May Roam, The Unforgiven, and Holier Than Thou are awesome.
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patatesvirusu wrote:
Wtf with the tracklist? [10]
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benrogers223 wrote:
Metallica to play Black album in full at next year's Download Festival http://liveandloudrock.wordpress.com/2011/11/11/download-festival/
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lagginswag wrote:
classic
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Petrovi4_15 wrote:
Что за херня с треклистом?! [3] Wtf with the tracklist? [9]
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