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Metallica, commonly known as "The Black Album", is Metallica's self-titled fifth studio album, released on August 12, 1991. It was the band's true commercial breakthrough, largely due to the lead single "Enter Sandman". |
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Power Ballad |
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Power Ballad: "Nothing Else Matters," which is the first thing they've ever released resembling a Silly Love Song. |
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New Sound Album |
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New Sound Album: They slowed down to a degree, and the songs aren't as long as on …And Justice For All. It's also the rare Metallica album without an Instrumental. |
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The Drifter |
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The Drifter/Walking the Earth: "Wherever I May Roam". |
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Minimalistic Cover Art |
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Minimalistic Cover Art: It's nicknamed "The Black Album" for a reason. Reportedly, they were inspired by Spın̈al Tap's "Smell the Glove". In "A Year and a Half in the Life of Metallica", James even repeatedly jokes "none more black" when he first sees the cover mock-ups, and he and Kirk were later "confronted" by David St. Hubbins and Nigel Tufnel at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert for AIDS Awareness in London. |
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Lyrical Tic |
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Lyrical Tic: Just about every other lyric begins with "You." |
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Things That Go "Bump" in the Night |
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Things That Go "Bump" in the Night: "Enter Sandman". |
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Wham Line |
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Wham Line: "Sad But True". |
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Religion Rant Song |
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Religion Rant Song: "The God That Failed", about how James' mother died of cancer because her Christian Scientist beliefs wouldn't let her accept medical treatment, is a Type 2. |
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Record Producer |
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Record Producer: Bob Rock, with James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich. |
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Enter Eponymous |
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Enter Eponymous: "Enter Sandman". |
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Epic Rocking |
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Epic Rocking: "The Unforgiven", "Wherever I May Roam", "Nothing Else Matters" and "My Friend of Misery" all top six minutes. |
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Eagleland |
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Eagleland: "Don't Tread on Me" is Type 1 all the way, even opening with the band playing the melody of "America" from West Side Story. |
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Thrash Metal |
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Thrash Metal: This is the album where they start to abandon the genre, in favor of a more Traditional Heavy Metal sound. That said, traces of it remain here, most notably on "Holier Than Thou" and "The Struggle Within," songs that wouldn't sound too out of place on Master of Puppets or …And Justice for All. |
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Ignored Expert |
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Ignored Expert: Ironically, a clip from the documentary "A Year and a Half in the Life of Metallica" showed that Bob Rock, who the band brought in to make their sound more accessible, favored releasing the much more aggressive "Holier Than Thou" as the first single instead of "Enter Sandman". James and Lars paid this suggestion no mind, and the rest is history. |
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Self-Titled Album |
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Self-Titled Album: Well, duh. |
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Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep |
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Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep: Quoted verbatim in the Ironic Nursery Tune "Enter Sandman". |
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Reptiles Are Abhorrent |
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Reptiles Are Abhorrent: Subverted with "Don't Tread on Me", since the snake (also featured on the album's cover), taken from an early version of the US flag (the Gadsden flag, specifically), is supposed to represent strength and honor. |
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Heroic Self-Deprecation |
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Heroic Self-Deprecation: The subject of "The Unforgiven". |
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Our Werewolves Are Different |
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Our Werewolves Are Different: "Of Wolf and Man". |
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