Happy Anniversary 'Black' Album!

Once again, an anniversary to make all of us feel old as dirt! Metallica's glorious self-titled masterpiece (a.k.a. Black album) was released 33 years ago today. "The Unforgiven" and "Sad But True" as so important to me. Just great songs that are on my all-time faves playlist.

Time flies, man. Back in 1991 I was in fifth grade I think and I remember how big this album got over the next year. Yes, I was obsessed with MTV that young.

Comments

[Jeff]

Wow, time flies. MTV was still playing videos in 1991?

[stu]

not to rain any anybody’s memories, but as big as this album was during my senior year, i remember it as being the beginning of the band’s creative downfall. yeah i liked it then (and saw them 3 times on the tour), but i loved all the previous stuff already and eventually stopped liking every single they had on this disc. but i’m glad they helped keep metal alive.

[Bkallday]

Correct Stu. Any true Metallica fan knows that the Black album was the beginning of the end. They were originally a thrash metal band but this album was pop metal. A very sad day for those of us that supported the band for those first 4 classic albums. But for those that just wanna listen to what everyone else is listening to, the Black Album was classic for them. I'd rather listen to a chorus of extremely loud farts before i hear the unforgiven, enter sandman, or nothing else matters. But then again I was with them back in the day, when they were still a real thrash metal act.