METALLICA

Release Year: 2021
Artist Origin: USA
Style: expressive melodic thrash heavy metal

already sold more than hard to comprehend thirty million times, due to its cover and/or contents commonly titled as "black album", highly diverse fifth twelve tracker [1991] has simplified the angered sound of the kult four-piece to much easier grasped, usually melodic heavy metal standard - this way the Yankees fiercely entered the elite club of worldwide music industry, and regardless of some conservative metalheads prompting to bury them for good, certain commercial hits immediately turned into monumental, balladesque numbers that forever changed rock music history, while objective listener shall not forget the impetuous and loud side of the album - heavy, powerful and menacing production keeps music in chunky, raging, tight-fisted maelstrom, so genre deception it is obviously not; recent European gatefold sleeve double black 180g vinyl edition marks thirty years of this recording with a remastered sound and a pro-printed lyric insert