Metallica | 
 enlarge | Artist: Metallica
Label: Elektra / Wea
Category: Music
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1220 reviews
Sales Rank: 120
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.5
MPN: 61113
UPC: 075596111324
EAN: 0075596111324
ASIN: B000002H97
Release Date: August 12, 1991
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Condition: Brand New - Factory Sealed - Shipped from Florida via USPS First class mail. We ONLY sell what we have in stock. NO back orders here.Import Edition
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| Tracks:
| • | Enter Sandman | | • | Sad But True | | • | Holier Than Thou | | • | The Unforgiven | | • | Wherever I May Roam | | • | Don't Tread On Me | | • | Through The Never | | • | Nothing Else Matters | | • | Of Wolf And Man | | • | God That Failed | | • | My Friend Of Misery | | • | Struggle Within |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com essential recording
Called "the Black Album" by many (due to its monochrome cover), Metallica marks the group's entrance into the mainstream, with shorter songs, simpler song structures, and slower tempos overall. That said, this is an excellent album, featuring some of the best songwriting Metallica has ever done. "Enter Sandman," "Wherever I May Roam," and "God That Failed," despite being slower and more groove-oriented than the band's earlier work, feature the same heavy riffs and heavier rhythms that have always been a feature of Metallica's music. The band goes introspective with "Unforgiven," and proves that they can write a ballad with "Nothing Else Matters," which succeeds better than one might expect. Overall, this is a high-energy album despite its laid-back approach, and is in many ways superior to the previous . . . And Justice for All, which was weakened by overly complicated song structures and mediocre production. -- Genevieve Williams
Album Description
Japanese edition of their multi-platinum 1991 smash album that spent four consecutive weeks at #1, with the bonus track 'So What'. 13 tracks, also featuring the top 40 hits 'Enter Sandman', 'The Unforgiven' & 'Nothing Else Matters'. A Sony Records release.
Album Details
Australian Release featuring a Limited Edition Bonus Live in London EP.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 1215 more reviews...
 Disappointing then and now August 31, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Years later, I'm still disappointed. Years later I still cannot listen to this album all the way through without cringing.
 The "Black" album August 30, 2008
One of thier best.This is the first one I bought,on cassette,and is what made me a Metallica fan.
Metal Militia Summoner August 21, 2008
I see things from a different point of view to all those people saying Metallica sold out with this album. Yes, they did, but here's my view:
At my very 12 or 13 years I listened every crap radio threw me. But one day I listened to this "radio friendly" Metallica song Enter Sandman. It got me at once. I thought "man, this is what I really want to listen to from now on. What is this music? What is this group? What else have they made?" Sice that day I digged into the roots not only of metal, (I can not say I'm a die-hard metal fan) but into everything rock and good music meant. So, thanks Metallica, for selling out yourselves so I could step into the world of the best music! Your first four albums are just great, your music from Black Album on, it just sucks.
This is easily a 5 star album don't listen to the critics August 12, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I suck at writing reviews so I'll keep this short and sweet the majority of the people on here who gave it 1-3 stars are crybabies and that's that! Yea Metallica got a little softer but this album IS still metal and is one of the top 10 greatest albums of all time, in any genre! We are suppose to give ratings and reviews for the music on this cd and not what Metallica did afterwards cause yes they seem they money hungry a-holes but this album is still a masterpiece and EASILY 5 stars!
The Black Album? How 'bout the BLAND Album? August 11, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
All right, even I can admit that this was one of the first "metal" CD's that I picked up, right alongside Judas Priest's "Sin After Sin" and "Unleashed in the East." This was a mere year and a half ago (yeah, little late to the party), and I thought it sucked then even after such little exposure to other music. AND I STILL THINK IT SUCKS NOW. In fact, this album almost ruined Metallica for me. I never even wanted to hear any other Metallica, I was so disappointed. It took me a whole six months or so til I gave in and bought Metallica's Master of Puppets on impulse. Now THAT is a metal classic! I'm so glad I bought that one! A lot of the songs seriously sound the same.
Now, WHY this CD sucks. It's just so boring. I don't even consider it metal, I call it "VERY hard rock." Master and ...AJFA have no filler tracks, just an hour or so of kickass music! The Black Album is just 12 tracks of filler tunes that probably didn't make it in those previously mentioned masterpiece albums, so they just clumped them all together for this one. And a lot of the songs seriously sound the same. They all lack the ferocity and anger that overtook (AGAIN) Master and ...AJFA. (man, I just love those two, don't I?). The lyrics lack meaning, like--- OH FER CHRISSAKE YOU SHOULD GET IT BY NOW! Master of Puppets and ...And Justice for All are masterful thrash albums! Get THOSE instead! Even if you got them already, GET THEM AGAIN! You'll probably wear them out cuz they're just THAT awesome! The Black Album however, is a sold-out atrocity.
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