.Metallica's 'Black Album' was released 31 years ago today. Last year, we asked 30 artists their thoughts on the landmark album
I think it’s down to the songs. It’s just full of classics that stand up to repeat listening year after year. It was a great time for rock: The Black Album,were all released within a few weeks of each other in 1991. The Black Album is like the monolith in Kubrick’s, this massive, iconic slab of darkness that you cannot help being drawn towards.in the mid-’80s, and the band were a big influence on us as young musicians playing thrash metal in Mexico City.
After we got home, I didn’t even stop to say hello to my aunt as we shot past at a speed only kids with a purpose can achieve. We went into our dingy dark and dank metal haven, the basement. With haste, we bee-lined it to our social centerpiece and source of some of my fondest memories, my cousin’s CD player. We turned the bass and treble to the perfect settings and the volume as high as it would go without breaking up sonically. Then he put in the CD and we listened.
I’m officially setting my funeral ship on fire to commemorate my conversion, with a caveat. Is the record at times corny beyond measure? No doubt. Is there some cultural foreshadowing going on here? Sure. But I can’t help but think there’s a tongue-in-cheek element happening here as well, taking itself to the full extreme of natural and unnatural law with its adorable “fangs of rage.”I think it’s very important to have a full disclosure moment with y’all. I’m not a metalhead.
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