Aug. 12 marks the 25th year since the release Metallica by Metallica — also known as The Black Album. At the time of the release, the album, the band’s fifth, got mixed reviews from die-hard Metallica fans — some feeling it was too mainstream and others feeling that it was the most mature album the band had release yet. The release of The Black Album got lots of airplay on rock radio, not just heavy metal radio stations, and it catapulted Metallica from a great heavy metal band into a huge rock band. At the time of the release of the album, rock music was on the threshold of a number of seismic shifts. Guns n’ Roses had infused hard rock with sorely missed lyrical and musical depth. In fact,...
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