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47 thoughts on “Why they HATED Metallica’s black album…”

  4. They sold out……sold out every show for decades. People who hate on the Black Album just don't get it. One of the best sounding and produced albums of any genre ever. Neanderthals can go back to their skeevy, skunk weed smelling 84 chevy vans.

  8. I don't like the black album but I like Death Magnetic, St. Anger and the first half of Reload (all the singles basically, most other tracks on the album are filler, and I don't like Load very much, my favorite song on there is Mama Said)
    haven't listened to hardwired yet

  12. This is the biggest sell out album in thrash metal history I couldn't believe it when I heard this album I told my homie when I was listening to it I said no way this can't be Metallica then he showed me the album cover I couldn't believe it with Metallica's name on it and since that album came out I never bought any new material from Metallica

  13. I love black album all songs are fire sounds simple but heavy and the tone of the guitars and james vocals are awesome black album is my favorite album after AJFA and RTL

  19. Metallica best album is justice follow by the ruff kill then lightning and last puppets…take damage Inc and disposable heroes songs and put them on lightning then lighting will be a perfect album….aftervthose albums I don't care for them…Dave mustaine got a lot to do by matallica in the mainstream…must riffs of the best songs are from dave…I don't call it sale out…they just went for the get rich road…..what amaze me more is as rich they are today and suck balls is lars Ulrich wich as a drummer I think he sucks and the older he go the other way…he suck ball more today0

  21. It was Metallica's sellout album. No one was into Metallica but those who were. We were called devil worshippers for listening to them. They themselves said they would never do it as well

  22. One thing people don't appreciate about the Black Album, or more to the point it's popularity right after it's release, was how it made mainstream radio heavier. Prior, the heaviest you could hope to hear was like AC/DC or Aerosmith or maybe the odd Black Sabbath song late at night. And one band & album that benefited hugely from the newly allowable heaviness was Nirvana & 'Nevermind'. It was loud & noisy, and as good as that album was, there was no way they would've made that gigantic leap from relatively unknown underground band to megastardom without the support of mainstream radio & it's audience. The Black Album made that happen. I've never heard anybody else make this claim before, but I just did… So suck on it.

  24. Hated this album? Really? That makes zero sense. Talk about poor taste. It is one of their best albums to this day. Get over it. It's called evolving..That album definitely helped me get into metal music.

  27. I'm happy for their success. But this album sucks and I never bought anything from them again. However, I did broaden my tastes after this release. I really tried to like it. But it was not them.

  28. The Black album was and continues to be boring. It doesn't have the same energy as their good music. Selling out used to be a label that no one wanted but Metallica embraced it. They traded their super loyal, hard core fan base for a much larger but fickle one. Money and widespread commercial success is great. They got it, congratulations to the new "improved", softer metallica.

  30. This is just a classic case of fans being decades behind the vision that an artist has, too many times do we see an artist try something new and their fans hate them to an unreasonable degree only to be the biggest advocates of said work years later shame that after all this time people are still so close minded about artists trying new things. (Not everyone tho but, the majority and I would say ESPECIALLY in the metal scene)

  31. It's true. They sold out with the black album. I stopped following their music after they hit the 90's. I still love their 80's albums and Justice for all was their last good album. Now as I'm older tho I can say…the black album isn't as bad as I thought it was then.. but the band did sellout.

  34. The gatekeeping that goes on in underground music is insane, and I suspect it was even worse back in the day. Luckily, I'm a kid compared to those metallica fans: the black album is as old as me, lol. As far as I'm concerned Metallica is and always will be a washed up boomer band with an asshole drummer. 😛 (I do respect them for what they did for the scene, I just don't really care for their music).

  35. Songs like Of Wolf and Man, Wherever I May Roam and Sad But True are up there with the best of the previous work imo. Gotta judge and album for what it is, not what it isn't Metallicats. m/

  36. It's massively overstated how much people 'hated' the Black Album. Everyone bought it, including the old school fans, the hate is a media talking point more than anything else.

  38. My favorite album BEFORE the Black Album, was Ride The Lightning. Which if you know it…..it’s not that thrash ish. Then Master Of Puppets was thrash. They went back & forth. Before RTL was Kill em All. Very thrash. So they always went back & forth. The Black album was Awesome!!!! And since I started listening to them from Kill em All. You wanna call me a poser??? Haha!!! Like I give a shit. The Black Album was more thrash then Ride the Lightning!!!
    Ppl called them sell outs when they got there hair cut as well. As Jason said……Yeah we are sell outs…..we sell out every show we play. Love that quote. It was Metallica saying fuck u!!! Don’t like it , see yaaaa!!!😂👋. Btw…..Master of Puppets made them explode into a major worldwide band. So they were already HUGE before Black album. I was in late teens. Idk where you live, but in NY? Nobody hated the black album. Just the opposite.

  40. Strictly speaking, metal's heyday was in the 80s, when hair bands and traditional metal bands were selling gold and platinum albums, receiving abundant radio airplay, and heavy (no pun intended) rotation on MTV. Metallica's Black Album WAS indeed a massive bestseller. But so were AC-DC's Back In Black over a decade earlier, an Guns 'N' Roses' debut in 87. Not to mention multimillion sellers from the likes of Ozzy Osbourne, Van Halen, and Poison.

    What set the Black Album apart from all those is that it was the most successful album from a thrash metal band before or since.

    The problem, especially for long-time fans, is that it wasn't strictly a thrash album. Oh, there was "Through The Never" and one or two others that reflected the style Metallica had pioneered. But overall their tempos had slowed down, and their complex musical arrangements had been simplified and streamlined. A lover of their thrash roots like me can hear how songs like "Enter Sandman" and "Wherever I May Roam" could have been really superb thrash metal classics if they had been sped up even just a bit, and given a little more oomph. But as it stands, they are just traditional metal slightly on the heavier side. In fact, I dare say some songs by actual traditional metal bands, like Black Sabbath's "Symptom of the Universe" and Iron Maiden's "The Trooper," are more thrash than "Enter Sandman.

    Of course, Metallica had been dogged with accusations of "selling out" since their second album, Ride The Lightning, when they included the so-called ballad "Fade to Black." But the Black Album really was a drastic change in direction for them, musically.

    In fairness, over time that album has grown on me, and it seems like a lot of other Metallica fans feel the same. The production values are certainly excellent. That is why they hired Bob Rock, after all.

    But Ride the Lightning and Master of Puppets remain the twin pinnacles of Metallica's artistic development in my humble opinion.

  41. Knowing a lot of old metal heads, not a lot of them were thinking with a clear head. Alcohol drugs and girls occupied their minds most of the time. Most old metalheads were teens at the time. Everyone knows how intelligent teenagers are.

  43. As a kid, I could never understand how a band that sung Enter Sandman could be seen as a sellout. The idea that something was more metal than that just blew my poor 10 year old brain

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