Black Album 25 years old today!

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In regard to #9 on the list I was just listening to the studio version and noticed Kirk doesn't play the intro correct live. James does a cool little pull off/slide just before the transition to the A chord.

I know they get bashed often (sometimes for good reason) but this was such a landmark album for the guitar/metal community. In May of this year the Black album was the third best selling metal album of 2016!
 
Cool read, many thanks!

I remember when I first heard Enter Sandman. My reaction was "oh, awesome song, sounds like Metallica but catchier" and when I found out it actually was Metallica, I immediately got the album. Still not my favourite Metallica album, but a lot of great songs on there. Saw them on that tour in 93, which IMHO was their best time.

Oh and the album also had an influence on me finally wanting to learn the guitar. I learned Nothing else matters on my dad's acoustic guitar to prove that I was serious about getting an electric. And so it started :)
 
Today is indeed a sad day.

R.I.P. Metallica
25 years ago today you passed. You will never be forgotten.


I miss you Metallica :cry:
 
Metallica went from Kill Bon Jovi on a headstock to using their producer. ^^^What he said. :thumbsdown:
 
Black Album was a defining moment in time....it's a totally love/hate thing..there is no in-between. It really opened up both Metallica and metal/rock to a much wider audience.

I love the disc (really, there's only a couple of average songs on it) out hate the pretend metal fans it bought with it..lol
 
ElectricVoodoo":fnj3ddqv said:
Today is indeed a sad day.

R.I.P. Metallica
25 years ago today you passed. You will never be forgotten.


I miss you Metallica :cry:
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Right on! When I first saw the "Enter Sandman" video I said, "what the fuck is this weak ass shit?" Then along came the millions of fake ass metal fans that a year earlier would rip on people like me who were already into Metallica and real metal. They should have just changed their name on the Black album. Fuck that album and Metallica. :thumbsdown:
 
Since Metallica love the theme to the Good, the Bad and the Ugly so much, I'll review the album in those terms :

The Good : Fantastic production
The Bad : ok to decent (not great) material. Dumbed down music.
The Ugly : Lyrics dumbed down even more than the music, not to mention the over reliance of the self parodying "ooohhs" and "yeahs"
 
What Tone Monster said. It STILL sounds amazing to this day and it was such a defining moment in metal. I love true, hard, rip-your-face-off metal but you can't deny the awesomeness of this polished masterpiece.
 
Also, the Black album brought about an epic tour where they played an insane amount of shows and were at the top of their game. Saw them a few times on this tour and it was amazing. If I had to pick, Justice was probably the best tour (missed that one), but Hetfield still had the roar on the black album tour and still sounded amazing.
 
While I agree that the Justice tour was pretty good, the MOP tour that I saw them on when they opened for Ozzy, was pure magic. Put Ozzy to shame imho.
No contest at all.

I can only imagine how good they were early on in their club days.

So when I hear black album, I hear nothing to be brutally honest. Not saying it is bad or anything, and if that was their very first album, maybe I would have a different opinion of it.

But the problem is, that there are 3 kick your ass up and down change the metal world type albums before it and one that is pretty damm good despite a tragic loss. Then there is this album :confused:
 
I was at a bar once and they started playing ENTER SANDMAN. All the girls ran out to the dance floor and started dancing. Im all for girls dancing. But I knew it wasnt a good sign for Metallica. They went from being cool to most everything they railed against with that album.
 
Yeah. I remember being so excited about this finally coming out! It had been so long since AJFA had come out, oh man it felt like Christmas morning!! Then I got it home, put it on and was so disappointed. It felt like a bad joke. But I rolled with it for a while, tried to talk myself into liking it and in the back of my head I thought "they'll pick things up again on the next album, right?" Then came the haircuts, the clothes, the semen and blood album artwork and I knew it was all over. Forever.
I don't begrudge them their success but it's as if they've been dead to me for so many years - I just look back on them fondly and try not to remember the bad stuff about them.
Nice sounding album. Shame about the songs.
 
Ah yes, I remember. This was the album that marked the time I stopped listening to Metallica.

Besides, the epic "Rust In Peace" by Megadeth was out... no comparison.
 
Oblivion DC":hz4optpo said:
Yeah. I remember being so excited about this finally coming out! It had been so long since AJFA had come out, oh man it felt like Christmas morning!! Then I got it home, put it on and was so disappointed. It felt like a bad joke. But I rolled with it for a while, tried to talk myself into liking it and in the back of my head I thought "they'll pick things up again on the next album, right?" Then came the haircuts, the clothes, the semen and blood album artwork and I knew it was all over. Forever.
I don't begrudge them their success but it's as if they've been dead to me for so many years - I just look back on them fondly and try not to remember the bad stuff about them.
Nice sounding album. Shame about the songs.
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My experience as well... :thumbsup:
 
I think I remember them saying in the behind the music that they wanted to go for the Dr. Feelgood production on the black album because it sounded so "Big"

If you'd asked them 10 years earlier or so about them wanting to sound like Motley Crue, they would've laughed at you.

Enough said
 
I love The Black Album. It's probably up there for me in terms of albums I've listened to more than any other. I don't care if it's not AJFA 2. I listen to a variety of bands and genres. I also love Load, and while I don't like it as much, I enjoy Reload as well.

St Anger is where I draw the line. Still can't stand that album.
 
If you look at all of the albums separately without comparing them to previous albums, they are all pretty good. Except St. Anger, cant stomach that one. Even Load is good if you just look at it as a hard rock album not coming from a band that recorded Master of Puppets.
 
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