I would never argue with anyone that doesn’t like this album, I understand if someone doesn’t like any album of any artist. But I think some of the more close minded people in the metal community don’t really understand what this album did not only for Metallica, but really metal as a whole. The thrash scene was kind of starting to fade away but this black album introduced so many people to metal music. There’s a lot of people my age, in their early 40s that we’re around the age of 12 or 13 when this album came out in because of this album not only did we become fans of Metallica, but we also got into other artist like Slayer, Ozzy , Megadeth , Pantera, Maiden, White Zombie, etc. Numbers don’t lie. After the Black album came out people went and bought 100s of thousands of Slayer and Megadeth albums. Other than classic metal acts like Ozzy Osbourne, Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden , you didn’t have a lot of hard or more extreme metal albums going platinum. And justice for all went platinum one time and that was really extreme metals. Most successful album before the black album came out. Slayer were respected and loved by the community, but they hadn’t even seen an album go gold yet and after the Black album comes out for their albums win gold. Megadeaths countdown to extinction had an audience waiting for it. It’s sold 2 million copies domestically, by the time Panteras far beyond driven came out there was 1 million people that went out and bought that album. That black album kick the doors down from metal across the globe. Without it, I would’ve never have discovered albums like Master of Puppets, Reign in Blood, Vulgar Display of Power, Ride The Lightning, Paranoid, Blizzard of Ozz, Rust In Peace, and so many more. I’m not saying you have to like this album but I think it deserves to be respected for what he did for metal in general. It is literally the biggest selling album of the 90s. No other album that came out in the 90s and I’m not talking about just metal I’m talking about all types of music, and Garth brooks was huge in the 90s, 2Pac, and Snoop Dogg were huge in the 90s, none of those artist could put out an album that did the numbers the Black album did.
I mean, Enter Sandman will always be My all-time favourite Metal song! Even though I've had some emotional turmoil towards Lars over the ensuing years, as I still love Metallica period, as The Black Album will forever be My favourite record!!!
St.Tango! For those who don't know, Tango is an orangeade beverage here in the UK, and pretty much like a Cousin to Fanta! I wonder, do Americans drink Tango over there? If so, let Me know! Oh, and that was just a silly joke I made by the way! 😅😅 Peace! 😊🇺🇸🏴
