This album has literally everything good about metal. It's insane.
This album has literally everything good about metal. It's insane
You should be sleeping right now gramps.
Why did The Black Album happen? Why??
Doesn’t have any breakdowns does it?
imagine Metal nowadays with more alive talented american bass player and more dead scandinavian jews
Every album of theirs is good if you understand what they were going for in each.
yes it's the quintessential 'metalhead' album
although MOP is better
Escape is a great song.
If it didn’t, they would not have become the biggest metal band in the world for the last 35 years, outside of Black Sabbath, of course. Put the blame on Bob Rock, if anyone.
Right but that doesn't answer my question at all. At bare minimum they could've pulled a Nirvana. Half of In Utero was still really cool. Did they make The Black Album to sell out? Did they really make that much more money than they could have with even just a lighter version of And Justice For All? Look how successful that album was. Why mess with with success? Why couldn't at least half of it still been really cool? Enter Sandman should've been the worst song on there.
I think you're underestimating how successful And Justice For All was at the time. One was huge. They got nominated for a Grammy and all kinds of stuff.
It's just so awesome bro. Like one of the fuckin best albums ever. You'll never get music like this today because of shitty teen-metal.
The album you posted is from 1995. Not op but who the fuck are you calling gramps lmao
I'm not trying to shit on metallica but I feel like these threads are all made by people who just listened to their first metal album
That would not have mattered to pre-1991 fans, though; they already loved them and didn't need BA, indeed were likely disappointed by it.
Why mess with with success?
That only applies when you mess with it and bomb. From a success perspective, the exact opposite happened with Black.
Quite the opposite. I fell in love with Metallica after a decade of listening to nothing but extreme/underground metal and rejecting everything mainstream. I finally had enough. They're unironically better than everyone else in the genre.
childhood is getting into metal via Metallica
adolescence is abandoning Metallica because they "sold out" and exploring the heavier subgenres of metal
adulthood is coming back to Metallica because after you've been around the block, you realize they're still one of the best metal bands for a reason
weezer mogs this shit i rest my case
Did they really peak here? I feel like everything made after Cliff's death just didn't hit the same highs. Except maybe Unforgiven II
weezer
Not metal.
They peaked on St Anger obviously
Adolescence is abandoning metal almost entirely. Adulthood is coming back to the extreme stuff no matter how corny / campy it is and not giving a fuck. And I say this as someone who has always liked Metallica but I think they are one of the least interesting thrash metal bands ever.
adulthood is extreme metal
"This album has literally everything good about metal"
has zero jazz-based songs that open with a barbershop quartet
anon please youtube.com
sludge metal is the skinnyfat stoner loser kid of metal subgenres that routinely gets Cs and ends up working at jiffy lube after high school
anon i don't know what you think sludge metal is but it's definitely not Imperial Triumphant
Enter Sandman is a great song and the black album isnt that bad. Keep being a follower.
as long as you don't still dress like you listen to extreme metal as an adult its ok
heavily downtuned guitars
sluggish tempo
lots of syncopation
if it quacks like a duck
i see what you're saying but sludge metal is a descendant of blues and hardcore punk and sounds like Acid Bath and Eyehategod while Imperial Triumphant's style is significantly more influenced by death and black metal even if the song i linked veers into similar territory as sludge
imperial triumphant
sludge
way too much reverb on everything
Yep, I've heard nearly 2,000 metal albums and it's still the GOAT.
Also a great album but it's no RtL.
96 actually.
i can hear the black/death influence too but still sounds a lot like sludge. just checked MA and they don't list them as sludge so i'm guessing that's where the consternation is from. that site is in no way an accurate arbiter of what bands are/aren't
as long as you still listen to it it's ok
Why and when did people start acting like this album was better than MoP and AJFA? It's their weakest 80s thrash album. I have KEA over RTL. It's still a masterpiece but it's definitely the lesser of the four.