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Metallica's fifth, self-titled album, often called The Black Album, was released in 1991 and debuted at number one on the Billboard 200. [4] The band embarked on a two-year tour in support of the album. Metallica has since been certified 16 times platinum by the RIAA. [3] Metallica followed with the release of Load and Reload, respectively. [5]
The 2011 book Metallica: The Music and the Mayhem describes the song as "qualifying on all grounds, with lyrics full of festering resentment, and Hammett giving a lengthy solo." [ 3 ] Loudwire ranked the song in 94th place in their ranking of every Metallica song, calling it "entirely forgettable" but "nothing particularly offensive."
Lead guitarist Kirk Hammett was credited with songwriting on every Metallica album from Ride the Lightning to Death Magnetic. Metallica's original lead guitarist Dave Mustaine co-wrote a number of the band's early songs. Bassist Jason Newsted joined in 1986, performed on four studio albums and co-wrote three songs.
72 Seasons is the eleventh studio album by American heavy metal band Metallica, released on April 14, 2023, by their own record label Blackened Recordings. 72 Seasons was produced by Greg Fidelman, who produced the band's previous studio album, Hardwired... to Self-Destruct (2016), and is the band's second studio album to be released through Blackened.
Live Shit: Binge & Purge is the first live album by the American heavy metal band Metallica, released in a box set format on November 23, 1993.The initial pressings contained three CDs or cassette tapes, featuring songs from concerts in Mexico City during the Nowhere Else to Roam tour, as well as three VHS tapes.
Live at Grimey's is a live album by the American heavy metal band Metallica.The album was recorded live on June 12, 2008, at The Basement, a venue beneath Grimey's New & Preloved Music in Nashville, Tennessee, just before their appearance at the Bonnaroo Music Festival.
Metallica went on the festival tour a fourth time. The last concert of the tour, held on September 28 at Tushino Airfield in Moscow, was described as "the first free outdoor Western rock concert in Soviet history" and had a crowd estimated between 500,000 and 3,500,000 people, [29] [30] with some unofficial estimates as high over 2,000,000. [31]
The Videos 1989–2004 is a video album by American heavy metal band Metallica, released on DVD in December 2006. [1] It features all of the band's videos from 1989 to 2004. In its first week of release, the DVD sold 28,000 copies.