Back to Black: Remembering Metallica’s ‘Black Album,’ 25 Years Later

Yahoo ^ | August 11th, 2016 | Jon Wiederhorn

[TheStickman]

“The Unforgiven” IMO is the BEST Metallica song. They really wrote some amazing songs for this album. I never was into thrash or speed metal. This stuff has great melodies & the heaviness in the music was still there. Really great music.

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[EEGator]

I’ll bet you’re tons of fun at parties!...

[Mariner]

Hetfield said the album was catharsis after getting out of rehab and sober for the first time in 30 years.

And still sober today.

[Ransomed]

It might have been, for him. For the fans and the rest of the band, the documentary that showed the making of St. Anger and the ‘band therapist’ or whatever that weirdo was supposed to be that actually sat in on the creation of the songs, it looked like a GIANT slow speed train wreck. Hetfield was the coolest, and man he comes off like a whiney weirdo. Which is fine, he had his demons, we all do. But he showed it to everyone, and he made the band sit through it, they had absolutely no say in the stupidity!

Lars actually comes off as way more level headed and down to earth, if you can believe it. And he has always been half a flake or so.

Freegards

[Spacetrucker]

I have a very difficult time listening to anything after Puppets ... I was raised on the first three thrash and was sorely disappointed with And Justice - and everything since.

[doorgunner69]

I bet one of their riffs is in your head now, vying with that Beatles song.

Or Black Sabbath.

You would bet very, very wrong.

[patro]

Through the Never and No Leaf Clover: First songs that came to mind.

[Organic Panic]

Metallica are still struggling to recapture lightning in a bottle.

Did the author not listen to their work after the "Metallica" album??? Their work on Load and Reload was fantastic. This reminds me getting my ass chewed when I was a kid and borrowed some Metallica cassettes. Good days. Good days.

[Axenolith]

I know,it was kind of like Tool videos.

[Pilgrim's Progress]

No, but I do have an idea why the young generation that grew up listening to music dedicated to the devil are establishment hacks and brain-dead democrats.

Frankly, I don’t care how good the music is (which it isn’t in my opinion) . . . the message is just as important as the melody.

But then, I suppose Satan is just a figment of one’s imagination to those that enjoy this stuff.

Sorry I clicked . . . sorry I posted - but that is my opinion which I suppose is just as valid as anyone else’s.

[patro]

What kind of music do you listen to, Mr. Progress?

[dfwgator]

Losing Cliff Burton was a huge blow.

[Pilgrim's Progress]

Beatles, pretty much exclusively.

[West Texas Chuck]

“Kill ‘em All”

[dfwgator]

Of course their biggest mistake was getting rid of Dave Mustaine.

[DrJeff]

Kill em All is my favorite - that album just rocks so hard - it's so raw.....you want to turn it to 11. I had forgotten Mustaine was in the lineup.....just incredible.

Seek 'n Destroy, Hit the Lights, 4 Horsemen, Whiplash....

[Conservative4Life]

I quit listening when they attacked their fans via Napster. Going after computer dowloaded songs is like going after people that taped off the radio. Poor taste for marketing. One person was sued for over a million dollars for it. Listening to the radio and internet swayed me into buying or rejecting certain groups or albums.

[Spacetrucker]

Dave Mustang would tell you himself he needed to go, he had major substance abuse issues at the time.

[dfwgator]

True. But just think what could have been. Metallica would have ruled the world with that lineup.

[Spacetrucker]

Damn auto correct ... Mustaine