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100
Yep, Metallica will sweep the polls this year with '5'.
2mo
90
In retrospect, Metallica is a good, but not quite great, album, one whose best moments deservedly captured the heavy metal crown, but whose approach also foreshadowed a creative decline.
10y
77
Metallica ... remains the final bastion of focus: a hubristic request for grace masquerading as a show of force, the prophetic turning point for the world’s biggest ever metal band.
While relistening to this all I thought about was the 45-year-old bald dads moshing to Enter Sandman when I saw Metallica live, was pretty fun tho
Sometimes simplicity is just better than complexity.
The Black Album is easily one of the most important and influential metal albums of all time, Metallica controversially got rid of every thrash metal element they had in them to focus on more basic song structures. No longer will their songs go on for 9 minutes and have complex structures with like a billion riffs per song, it's all straight-forward heavy metal on this album and it works, it really works, a lot better than it should.
I ... read more
Metallica revisited part 5/12
The most overhated classic metal album, hated solely by metal elitists who refuse to believe that metal can be good even if it isn't either fast-paced, sounds like it was recorded with a potato, or it's Black Sabbath. As far as everyone else is concerned, this is one good-ass album. And as far as I'm concerned, it's great, and easily one of Metallica's best. And no, I don't mean that as in "Their first five album are easily their best, but this one is the ... read more
I have a soft spot for 90s era Metallica. I'm still going through those Load and Reload albums, and they aren't that bad as most people think (still not reaching their whole potential in them sadly). Here, the Black Album is a gateway drug to the heavenly and addicting one that is Metallica. If you like this album, then you'll probably like their earlier albums in the 80s, and maybe their later works as well. If you started Metallica with this album, then you might have not hate in every album ... read more
Out of all metallica albums I think this one has the biggest vibe of 50 year old dad listening to this while drinking a bud light in his truck
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Track List
| 1 | Enter Sandman 5:31 | 92 |
| 2 | Sad But True 5:24 | 90 |
| 3 | Holier Than Thou 3:47 | 80 |
| 4 | The Unforgiven 6:27 | 92 |
| 5 | Wherever I May Roam 6:44 | 89 |
| 6 | Don't Tread On Me 4:00 | 75 |
| 7 | Through the Never 4:04 | 77 |
| 8 | Nothing Else Matters 6:28 | 90 |
| 9 | Of Wolf and Man 4:16 | 77 |
| 10 | The God That Failed 5:08 | 79 |
| 11 | My Friend of Misery 6:49 | 82 |
| 12 | The Struggle Within 3:54 | 75 |
Total Length: 1 hour, 2 minutes
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Added on: February 2, 2013