Metallica (album)


The band Metallica's fifth album, Metallica, the cover of which is completely black.
Metallica was the band Metallica's fifth album, released August 12 1991 through Elektra Records. It is also called The Black Album because of its cover, which is almost completely black, with just one of the band's symbols visible as a slightly different shade of black. The cover is a parody of the Beatles' The White Album, just as the fictional band Spinal Tap have an album with an all-black cover, referenced by the Metallica release. The album was their first mainstream, commercial success.

Tracks

  1. "Enter Sandman" (Hetfield/Ulrich/Hammett)
  2. "Sad But True" (Hetfield/Ulrich)
  3. "Holier Than Thou" (Hetfield/Ulrich)
  4. "The Unforgiven" (Hetfield/Ulrich/Hammett)
  5. "Wherever I May Roam" (Hetfield/Ulrich)
  6. "Don't Tread On Me" (Hetfield/Ulrich)
  7. "Through The Never" (Hetfield/Ulrich/Hammett)
  8. "Nothing Else Matters" (Hetfield/Ulrich)
  9. "Of Wolf And Man" (Hetfield/Ulrich/Hammett)
  10. "The God That Failed" (Hetfield/Ulrich)
  11. "My Friend Of Misery" (Hetfield/Ulrich/Newsted)
  12. "The Struggle Within" (Hetfield/Ulrich)

Charting singles

1991 
Metallica The Billboard 200 No. 1 1991 Enter Sandman The Billboard Hot 100 No. 
16 1991 Enter Sandman Mainstream Rock Tracks No. 10 1992 Nothing Else Matters 
The Billboard Hot 100 No. 34 1992 Sad But True The Billboard Hot 100 No. 98 1992 
The Unforgiven The Billboard Hot 100 No. 35 1992 Wherever I May Roam The Billboard 
Hot 100 No. 82 1992 Nothing Else Matters Mainstream Rock Tracks No. 11 1992 The 
Unforgiven Mainstream Rock Tracks No. 10 1992 Wherever I May Roam Mainstream Rock 
Tracks No. 25 1993 Sad But True Mainstream Rock Tracks No. 15