MetallicaS “Black Album” from 1991 meant very different things to many different people. The band’s record label saw it as a large commercial breakthrough that could open up a completely new fan base thanks to these songs. Young fans who got to know the band for the first time through “Enter Sandman” saw it as their gateway to the entire heavy metal genre. The band saw it as the next step on their way to world domination.
Some of her hardcore fans from the very beginning finally saw betrayal. For them, Metal had nothing to look for on MTV and the top 40 of the radio. Some screamed “sell -out” and have not stopped since then. However you look at it, the album was a crucial turning point in her career. That’s why you can still play in stadiums. And that’s why a handful of old fans never see them again in the same light.
10. “St. Anger”
Like everyone, the metallicas breathtaking documentation Some Kind of Monster Has, white, had the LP published in 2003 St. Anger The band a difficult birth. Bassist Jason Newstead left the band even before the work even started. And the sessions were interrupted for months after front man James Hetfield went into a withdrawal clinic to treat his alcohol addiction.
The work dragged on for years while the group members attacked each other. And wondered if the band had a future at all. Much of these aggression flowed into the texts of St. Anger, Especially in the title track. “Fuck it all and fuckin ‘Regrets”, roars Hetfield. “I hit the lights on thesis Dark sets/ i need a voice to let myelf/ to let myself gra free.”
9. “The Day That Never Comes “
After the difficult St. Anger-Sessions took a long break from composing new music. When they reappeared, they decided to make some major changes. The producer Bob Rock, who had looked after all of her records up to the Black album, was gone. In his place Rick Rubin, who convinced the band, came from not thinking as much about the return to the Thrash Metal sounds that their masterpieces from the 1980s Master of Puppets made up.
He wanted them to take care of their past and to make ways to make this sound work in 2008. The fans received the first taste of the new album with the debut single “The Day That Never Comes”, an almost eight -minute work that was reminiscent of Metallica of the old school. It is full of angry riffs and sounded great when it was played in front of 50,000 people in stadiums and at European metal festivals.
8. “King Nothing”
Between the “Black Album” published in 1991 and the album published in 1996 “Load “ were only five years. But the music industry experienced enormous changes during this time. The grunge had come and gone. Rap was now a great force in the charts. It was unclear whether there was a place for Metallica in a world of Green Day and Weezer. And her hardcore fans were more than a little confused when they saw that their favorite band had their hair cut and sperm and blood lubricated on the cover of their new album.
Basically, they wanted Metallica frozen in a very close past. “King Nothing”, the last single of Loadis a warning story about what happens when your wishes come true. “And everything breaks down,” sings James Hetfield. ‘And you break your crown/and you show your finger/but there is nobody there. “
7. “Moth into flame “
Every evening before Metallica go on stage, they jam in a tiny backstage room. It is an environment in which you feel free to try new ideas. And every second is held on tape. As the group with the planning of their new album Hardwired… to Self Destruct started, they started searching 1,650 sound files that were recorded in these sessions and selected the best reefs and melodies. The process took years.
6. “No Leaf Clover”
If Metallica did not do enough in the 1990s to upset their old fans, then they have completed the decade with the absorption of a live album with a symphony orchestra. But S&M Wasn’t packed with sleepy interpretations of songs such as “Enter Sandman” and “Master of Puppets”. Instead, the San Francisco Orchestra found ways to complement the band’s hard live sound. It is a great fusion of two worlds and the new song “No Leaf Clover” was presented. Like a cloverleaf without a single sheet, it acts from bad luck. “Then it turns out that the soothing light at the end of your tunnel” – sings Hetfield – “is only a freight train that is coming up.”
5. “Hero of the Day “
The video for Metallica’s “Hero of the Day” shows a streaked teenager who observes a strange television line, in which members of Metallica can be seen on every channel. Be it Jason Newstead, who boxed against Kirk Hammet. Newstead, which moderates a game show. Or Hammet that moderates the news. In our world this was in 1996 and MTV did not play almost as much metallica as 1991. Nevertheless, “Hero of the Day” received enough attention to lead the Billboard Modern Rock Charts. Since the 1990s you have never played the song at concerts.
4. “Fuel”
Metallica no longer play many songs from Load and Reload at their concerts. But “Fuel” is a big exception. You played it over 450 times. It always ensures great reactions. When it was the third single in the summer of 1998 Reload If the song did not make it into the hot 100. But Nascar began to play him during their programs for obvious reasons, and he finally became her most famous song of both LoadAlbums. Just don’t listen to Avril Lavigne’s cover version. After that you will never want to hear a version of the song again.
3. “All Nightmare Long”
The second single from the album Death Magnetic From 2008 there was an eight -minute song about the persecution by an relentless enemy that is determined to kill. “Feel how we breathe on your face,” sings James Hetfield. “Feel how we move, every movement that we pursue/hunts you mercilessly/hunting you all the nightmare long.” It was not the kind of song intended for the radio. But the fans of the old school loved the guitar solos of Kirk Hammet and all the crazy pictures in the texts. It also sounded fantastic.
2. “Bleeding me”
“Bleeding Me” is one of the longest songs on both Load-Alben and a commitment from James Hetfield about the agony of alcoholism and his desperate desire to improve his life. ‘I tried to let everything bad out of me. Getting evil out of me, ‘he said in 2001. “While I did therapy, I discovered some ugly things in me. A dark spot.” He would only face his demons in a few years. But ‘Bleeding Me’ is an early sign that he knew that his life had come into trouble. It was never an official single. But it’s a fan favorite for a long time. The band has never played it once since their shows for the 20th anniversary in 2011.
1. “The Outlaw Torn “
Load ends with an almost ten -minute song that is about losing someone who is close. Many have speculated that it is about Cliff Burton. “You bring me to smash and feel the clock,” sings James Hetfield. “I would rather die behind the wheel/ the time was never on my side/ so I wait all my life.”
The song originally ended with a long instrumental coda. But when they found that the album was too long, they had to delete some of it. It is still one of the longest songs you have ever recorded. That could explain why they played it only 13 times in their entire history.