Metallica by Metallica

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    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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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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