True to that spirit, Metallica defined a new subgenre – thrash metal – with their 1983 debut album, Kill ’Em All. There’s no nostalgia driving this band we used to be very fearful of it.”
We think outside the box and we try to be the first at things. “We’re overachievers and we’re perfectionists. “Thirty years of the Black Album, it’s a pretty big year,” says Metallica’s singer, guitarist and co-founder, James Hetfield, rather drily – by his own admission, they are a band not usually given to looking back. The band are commemorating the record’s 30th anniversary by releasing a 52-track covers album, The Metallica Blacklist, with stars as giant and eclectic as Miley Cyrus, Elton John, Phoebe Bridgers and Biffy Clyro giving their takes on the album’s tracks. Its third single, the swelling Nothing Else Matters, passed 1bn YouTube views last month.
It went 16 times platinum in the US and has spent 622 weeks (and counting) in the US album chart. Released 30 years ago this month, no metal album since has matched its impact every parameter was reset for what such belligerent music could achieve. They seized their moment with the Black Album, as their self-titled next LP became known. Their Damaged Justice tour had packed arenas across the US and Europe.
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Their first music video, One, had finally earned them MTV airplay, blasting their intricately crafted savagery through every TV set in the US. Their 1988 album, … And Justice for All, had been in the US chart for a year and a half. B y the end of the 80s, it seemed certain that Metallica would be the biggest metal band in the world.
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