34 here which means I was 9 when Enter Sandman came out. Haven’t listened to any Metallica from after then.
My mom had a paper route since I was a baby. She had a procedure, and I had to take over her paper route from her for a summer while she recuperated. I had Metallica on my Walkman that entire summer. Load and Reload were not terrible albums. They don’t represent the metal phase the 80s had to offer, but as far as mainstream rock, they stood against others in the genre.