12th August was Metallica's black album anniversary- 20 years ago we bought this black bundle, some of us loved it while the rest of us felt that the money could have gotten us some other worthy albums. I was in the latter camp. It was quite the case of not hearing what you want to hear from the guys whom you've trusted to churn out some of the most commanding music in heavy metaldom.
The songs in there were definitely worthy music- that's incontestable but some of us simply find them unacceptable coming from Metallica. Whatever the case was, I bought the cassette tape format & dumped it into a canal on my way home. The cover sleeve went up in smoke- no kidding, I burnt it. There's no loss of a good cover art, yes? It's barely illustrated, after the incendiary process, it still looked... em... black. He, he...
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welcome to the mainstream metallica
other than that, there were some good guitar-works in it
no obligations to like this album. the guitars in here:
*more fundamental, less technical
*too much wah in use for solos
Agreed. Kirk really did abuse the wah pedal on this album :D
Jerry Cantrell (alice in chains) could be excessive with his wah applications as well but they remained tasteful & objective- to me, this is important.
the production was superb though
no issue with production or musicianship... it's about the appeal.
u mean it's has been TWENTY years?! no...
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