Metallica (album)

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"Enter Sandman"
The main riff in "Enter Sandman" can be heard in the beginning followed by the verse and the pre-chorus. The whole song evolved from the main riff, written by guitarist Kirk Hammett. [10]
"The Unforgiven"
"The Unforgiven" is rumored to contain a sample from "The Showdown", from the Sergio Leone film For a Few Dollars More . The lyrics deal with the struggle of an individual against the efforts of those who would oppose him. [21]
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The album was a change in Metallica's direction from the thrash metal style of the band's previous four studio albums towards a more commercial, heavy metal sound, but still had characteristics of thrash metal. [9] [17] [22] The band took a simpler approach partly because the members felt the songs on ...And Justice for All were too long and complex. Hetfield said that radio airplay was not their intention, but because they felt "we had pretty much done the longer song format to death," and considered a good change doing songs with just two riffs and "only taking two minutes to get the point across". [15] Ulrich added that the band was feeling a musical insecurity — "We felt inadequate as musicians and as songwriters. That made us go too far, around Master of Puppets and Justice, in the direction of trying to prove ourselves. 'We'll do all this weird-ass shit sideways to prove that we are capable musicians and songwriters'" – and Hetfield added he wanted to avoid getting stale: "Sitting there and worrying about whether people are going to like the album, therefore we have to write a certain kind of song — you just end up writing for someone else. Everyone's different. If everyone was the same, it would be boring as shit." [12]

Instruments not usually used by heavy metal bands, such as the cellos in "The Unforgiven" and the orchestra in "Nothing Else Matters", were added at Rock's insistence. [12] Rock also raised the volume of the bass guitar, which had been nearly inaudible on the previous album ...And Justice for All . [16] Newsted said he tried to "create a real rhythm section rather than a one-dimensional sound" with his bass. [15] Newsted credited Rock with helping him find a sound that would work without killing the bass drum or messing with the lower end of the guitar, which Newsted claimed had always been a real big problem with him. [23] Ulrich said he tried to avoid the "progressive Peartian paradiddles which became boring to play live" in his drumming and used a basic sound similar to those of the Rolling Stones' Charlie Watts and AC/DC's Phil Rudd. [16]

The lyrics of Metallica written by James Hetfield were more personal and introspective in nature than those of previous Metallica albums; Rock said Hetfield's songwriting became more confident, and that he was inspired by Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, and John Lennon. [17] According to Chris True of AllMusic, "Enter Sandman" is about "nightmares and all that come with them". [24] "The God That Failed" dealt with the death of Hetfield's mother from cancer and her Christian Science beliefs, which kept her from seeking medical treatment. "Nothing Else Matters" was a love song Hetfield wrote about missing his girlfriend while on tour. [25] [ failed verification ] Hetfield said the album's lyrical themes were more introspective because he wanted "lyrics that the band could stand behind – but we are four completely different individuals. So the only way to go was in." [26]

Packaging

Metallica had many discussions about the album title; the members considered calling it Five or using the title of one of the songs, but eventually chose an eponym because they "wanted to keep it simple." [15] The album's cover depicts the band's logo angled against the upper left corner and a coiled snake derived from the Gadsden flag in the bottom right corner. For the initial release, both emblems were embossed so they could barely be seen against the black background, giving Metallica the nickname "The Black Album". These emblems also appear on the back cover of the album. For later and current releases, both emblems are dark gray so they stand out more prominently. The motto of the Gadsden flag, "Don't Tread on Me", is also the title of a song on the album. A folded, pageless booklet depicts the faces of the band's members against a black background. The lyrics and liner notes are also printed on a grey background. [9]

The cover is reminiscent of Spinal Tap's album Smell the Glove , which the band jokingly acknowledged in its documentary A Year and a Half in the Life of Metallica . Members of Spinal Tap appeared on the film and asked Metallica about it, with Lars Ulrich commenting that British rock group Status Quo was the original inspiration as that band's Hello! album cover was also black. [9]

Marketing and sales

You think one day some fucker's gonna tell you, 'You have a number one record in America,' and the whole world will ejaculate. I stood there in my hotel room, and there was this fax that said, 'You're number one.' And it was, like, 'Well, okay.' It was just another fucking fax from the office.

—Lars Ulrich, on Metallica's first number one album [12]

"Enter Sandman" was released as Metallica's lead single on July 29, 1991; it reached number 16 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart and was certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). [27] [28] The follow-up single, "Don't Tread on Me", was released promotionally but did not chart. [28] The subsequent single, "The Unforgiven", was a Top 40 hit; it peaked in the Top 10 in Australia. [29]

Metallica was released on August 12, 1991, [30] and was the band's first album to debut at number one on the Billboard 200, selling 598,000 copies in its first week. It was certified platinum in two weeks and spent four consecutive weeks atop the Billboard 200. [31] [32] Meanwhile, more singles were released to further success. "Nothing Else Matters" reached number six in the United Kingdom and Ireland, [33] [34] and "Wherever I May Roam" peaked at number two on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks singles chart, [28] although the 1993 single "Sad but True" charted only for one week on the Billboard Hot 100 at 98. [28] Almost all singles were accompanied by music videos; the Wayne Isham-directed "Enter Sandman" promotional film won an MTV Video Music Award for Best Rock Video at the 1992 MTV Video Music Awards. [35]

Internationally, Metallica was also a success. It debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart [36] and was certified 2× platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) for selling 600,000 copies in the UK. [37] Metallica topped the charts in Australia, [38] Canada, [39] Germany, [40] New Zealand, [41] Norway, [42] the Netherlands, [43] Sweden, [44] and Switzerland. [45] It also reached the top five in Austria, [46] Finland, [47] and Japan, [48] as well as the top 10 in Spain. [49] The album failed to reach the top 20 in Ireland, having peaked at number 27. [50] The Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) certified the album 12× platinum. [51] It received diamond plaques from the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) [52] and the Recorded Music NZ (RMNZ) [53] for shipping a million and 150,000 copies, respectively.

Logging over 488 weeks on the US Billboard 200, Metallica proved the third-longest charting album in the Nielsen SoundScan era, behind Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon and Carole King's Tapestry . [54] In 2009, it surpassed Shania Twain's Come On Over as the best-selling album of the SoundScan era. It became the first album in the SoundScan era to pass 16 million in sales, [55] and with 16.4 million copies sold by 2016, Metallica is the best-selling album in the United States since Nielsen SoundScan tracking began in 1991. Of that sum, 5.8 million were purchased on cassette. The album never sold fewer than 1,000 copies in a week, and moved a weekly average of 5,000 copies in 2016. [56] Metallica was certified 16× platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in 2012 for shipping sixteen million copies in the US. [55] Metallica sold 31 million copies worldwide on physical media. [57] All five of Metallica's singles, "Enter Sandman", "The Unforgiven", "Nothing Else Matters", "Wherever I May Roam" and "Sad but True" charted on the Billboard Hot 100. [56]

Touring

Metallica performing live "Of Wolf and Man" at O2 Arena, London in 2008 Metallica Of Wolf and Man.jpg
Metallica performing live "Of Wolf and Man" at O2 Arena, London in 2008

In 1991, for the fourth time, Metallica played as part of the Monsters of Rock festival tour. The last concert of the tour was held on September 28, 1991, at Tushino Airfield in Moscow; it was described as "the first free outdoor Western rock concert in Soviet history" and was attended by an estimated 150,000 to 500,000 people. [58] [59] Some unofficial estimates put the attendance as high as 1,600,000. [60] The first tour directly intended to support the album, the Wherever We May Roam Tour, included a performance at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert, at which Metallica performed a short set list, consisting of "Enter Sandman", "Sad but True", and "Nothing Else Matters", along with Hetfield performed the Queen song "Stone Cold Crazy" with John Deacon, Brian May, and Roger Taylor of Queen and Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath. At one of the tour's first gigs the floor of the stage collapsed. [61] The January 13 and 14, 1992, shows in San Diego were later released in the box set Live Shit: Binge & Purge , [62] while the tour and the album were documented in the documentary A Year and a Half in the Life of Metallica. [63]

Metallica's Wherever We May Roam Tour also overlapped with Guns N' Roses' Use Your Illusion Tour. Hetfield suffered second and third degree burns to his arms, face, hands, and legs on August 8, 1992, during a Montreal show in the co-headlining Guns N' Roses/Metallica Stadium Tour. The tour included pyrotechnics, which were installed on-stage. Hetfield accidentally walked into a 12-foot (3.7 m) flame shot from a pyrotechnic during a live performance of the introduction of "Fade to Black". [62] The show was cut short shortly after this accident, so that Guns N' Roses began their concert to malicious reactions from fans. Newsted said Hetfield's skin was "bubbling like on The Toxic Avenger ". [63] The tour recommenced on August 25 in Phoenix, and although Hetfield could sing, he could not play guitar for the remainder of the tour. Guitar technician John Marshall, who had previously filled in on rhythm guitar and was then playing in Metal Church, played guitar for the recovering Hetfield. [63] Brazilian musician Andreas Kisser from Sepultura was initially considered to join the tour, but Marshall ultimately was chosen. [64]

The shows in Mexico City across February and March 1993 during the Nowhere Else to Roam tour were recorded, filmed and later also released as part of the band's first box set, [62] [63] which was released in November 1993 and titled Live Shit: Binge & Purge. The collection contained three live CDs, three home videos, and a book filled with riders and letters. [65] Pressings of the box set since November 2002 includes two DVDs, the first one being filmed at San Diego on the Wherever We May Roam Tour, and the latter at Seattle on the Damaged Justice Tour. [63] Binge & Purge was packaged as a cardboard box resembling that of a typical tour equipment transport box. The box set also featured a recreated copy of an access pass to the "Snakepit" part of the tour stage, as well as a cardboard drawing/airbrush stencil for the "Scary Guy" logo. [61] The Mexico City shows were also the first time the band met future member Robert Trujillo, who was in Suicidal Tendencies at the time. [66]

The final tour supporting the album, the Shit Hits the Sheds Tour, included a performance at Woodstock '94 that followed Nine Inch Nails and preceded Aerosmith on August 13 in front of a crowd of 350,000. [67] [68] Some songs, such as "Enter Sandman", "Nothing Else Matters", and "Sad but True", became permanent staples of Metallica's concert setlists during these and subsequent tours. Other songs though, such as "Holier than Thou", "The God That Failed", "Through the Never", and "The Unforgiven" were no longer included in performances after 1995 and would not be played again until the 2000s, when Metallica began performing a more extensive back catalog of songs with Robert Trujillo on bass after he joined the band upon completion of the album St. Anger. [69]

After touring duties for the album were finished, Metallica filed a lawsuit against Elektra Records, which tried to force the record label to terminate the band's contract and give the band ownership of their master recordings. The band based its claim on a section of the California Labor Code that allows employees to be released from a personal services contract after seven years. Metallica had sold 40 million copies worldwide upon the filing of the suit. Metallica had been signed to the label for over a decade but was still operating under the terms of its original 1984 contract, which provided a relatively low 14% royalty rate. [70] The band members said they were taking the action because they were ambivalent about Robert Morgado's refusal to give them another record deal along with Bob Krasnow, who retired from his job at the label shortly afterwards. Elektra responded by counter-suing the band, but in December 1994, Warner Music Group United States chairman Doug Morris offered Metallica a lucrative new deal in exchange for dropping the suit, [71] which was reported to be even more generous than the earlier Krasnow deal. In January 1995, both parties settled out of court with a non-disclosure agreement. [72] Metallica played the album in its entirety during the 2012 European Black Album Tour. [73]

Critical reception and legacy

Metallica
Metallica - Metallica cover.jpg
Studio album by
Metallica
ReleasedAugust 12, 1991 (1991-08-12)
RecordedOctober 6, 1990 – June 16, 1991
Studio One on One, Los Angeles
Genre Heavy metal
Length62:40
Label Elektra
Producer
Metallica chronology
The Good, the Bad & the Live
(1990)		Metallica
(1991)		 Load
(1996)
Metallica studio album chronology
...And Justice for All
(1988)		Metallica
(1991)		 Load
(1996)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [74]
Chicago Tribune Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [75]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [76]
Entertainment Weekly B+ [77]
Los Angeles Times Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [78]
MusicHound Rock Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [79]
Pitchfork 7.7/10 [80]
Q Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [81]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [25]
Select Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [82]

Metallica was met with widespread acclaim from both heavy metal journalists and mainstream publications, including NME , The New York Times , and The Village Voice . [83] In Entertainment Weekly , David Browne called it "rock's preeminent speed-metal cyclone", and said, "Metallica may have invented a new genre: progressive thrash". [77] Q magazine's Mark Cooper said he found the album's avoidance of metal's typically clumsy metaphors and glossy production refreshing; he said, "Metallica manage to rekindle the kind of intensity that fired the likes of Black Sabbath before metal fell in love with its own cliches". [81] Select magazine's David Cavanagh believed the album lacks artifice and is "disarmingly genuine". [82] In his review for Spin , Alec Foege found the music's harmonies vividly performed and said that Metallica showcase their "newfound versatility" on songs such as "The Unforgiven" and "Holier than Thou". [84] Robert Palmer, writing in Rolling Stone , said that several songs sound like "hard-rock classics" and that, apart from "Don't Tread on Me", Metallica is an "exemplary album of mature but still kickass rock & roll". [25] In his guide to Metallica's albums up to that point, Greg Kot of the Chicago Tribune recommended the album as "a great place for Metallica neophytes to start, with its more concise songs and explosive production." [75]

Some reviewers had reservations. Jonathan Gold, in the Los Angeles Times , said that while Metallica had embraced pop sensibilities "quite well", there was a sense the group was "no longer in love with the possibilities of its sound" on an album whose difficulty being embraced by the "metal cult" mirrored Bob Dylan going electric in the mid-1960s. [78] More critical was Robert Christgau, who wrote in his "Consumer Guide" for The Village Voice that he "put James Hetfield out of his misery in under five plays" of the album and that he "found life getting shorter with every song". [85] In his 2000 collection Christgau's Consumer Guide , Christgau later graded Metallica a "dud", indicating "a bad record whose details rarely merit further thought". [86]

Retrospective appraisals have been positive. In a retrospective article, Kerrang! said Metallica is the album that "propelled [the band] out of the metal ghetto to true mainstream global rock superstardom". [87] Melody Maker said that as a deliberate departure from the band's thrash style on ...And Justice for All, "Metallica was slower, less complicated, and probably twice as heavy as anything they'd done before". [87] In his review for BBC Music, Sid Smith said that although staunch listeners of the band accused them of selling out, Metallica confidently departed from the style of their previous albums and transitioned "from cult metal gods to bona fide rock stars". [88] Classic Rock called it "the absolute pinnacle of Metallica's long and successful career", and credited the album for inspiring 1990s post-grunge music and convincing the music industry to embrace heavy metal as a genre with mass appeal. [89] Author and philosopher Thomas Walker wrote in 2020, "Its success at encapsulating...[individualist] ideas in musical form and bringing them to a global audience is truly unique." [90] AllMusic's Steve Huey believed the massive popularity of Metallica inspired other speed metal bands to also embrace a simpler, less progressive sound. He deemed it "a good, but not quite great, album, one whose best moments deservedly captured the heavy metal crown, but whose approach also foreshadowed a creative decline [for Metallica.]" [74]

Speaking in The Independent , Metallica biographer Paul Stenning explained that Metallica created "a sound that had not really been heard in metal before, especially by a thrash band." [91]

Iron Maiden vocalist Bruce Dickinson said that Metallica should be given huge credit for "grabbing the opportunity when it came up, taking the risk and deservedly reaping the enormous rewards", and that their achievement with the album cannot be underestimated. He also shared his thoughts on it as well, "It's one of those seminal albums that just gets it right. It's extremely well-produced, and every note on that album is totally under control. I admire how they did it, and what they did with the songs, and it was very effective: it undoubtedly did help push metal into the mainstream." [92]

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Metallica, a 53-track covers album titled The Metallica Blacklist was released on September 10, 2021. The album features covers of songs from Metallica from over 50 artists in various styles. All profits from the album are donated to the band's All Within My Hands Foundation as well as charities of each contributing artist's choice. [93] [94]

Accolades

Metallica was voted the eighth best album of 1991 in the Pazz & Jop, an annual poll of American critics nationwide, published by The Village Voice. [95] Melody Maker ranked it number 16 in the magazine's December 1991 list of the year's best albums. [87] In 1992, the album won a Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance. [96] In 2000, it was voted number 88 in Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums . [97] In 2012, Rolling Stone ranked Metallica number 255 on "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time", [98] and then number 235 in a 2020 revised edition of the list. [7] It was also ranked 25th on the magazine's "100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time" (2017). [99] Spin ranked it number 52 on the "90 Greatest Albums of the '90s" (1999), with its entry reading: "this record's diamond-tipped tuneage stripped the band's melancholy guitar excess down to melodic, radio-ready bullets and ballads". [87] Metallica featured in Q magazine's August 2000 list of the "Best Metal Albums of All Time"; the magazine said the album "transformed them from cult metal heroes into global superstars, bringing a little refinement to their undoubted power". [87] In 1999, eight years after the album's release, Metallica won a Billboard Music Award for Catalog Album of the Year. [100]

Track listing

All lyrics are written by James Hetfield; all music is composed by Hetfield and Lars Ulrich except where noted.

No.TitleMusicLength
1."Enter Sandman"
5:31
2."Sad but True" 5:24
3."Holier than Thou" 3:47
4."The Unforgiven"
  • Hetfield
  • Ulrich
  • Hammett
6:27
5."Wherever I May Roam" 6:44
6."Don't Tread on Me" 4:00
7."Through the Never"
  • Hetfield
  • Ulrich
  • Hammett
4:04
8."Nothing Else Matters" 6:28
9."Of Wolf and Man"
  • Hetfield
  • Ulrich
  • Hammett
4:16
10."The God That Failed" 5:08
11."My Friend of Misery"
6:49
12."The Struggle Within" 3:53
Total length:62:31
Japanese edition bonus track [101]
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
13."So What" (Anti-Nowhere League cover)
  • Chris Exall
  • Clive Blake
  • Nick Culmer
  • Djahanshah Aghssa
3:08

Reissues

Metallica has been reissued several times, including in 2008, [102] in 2010, [103] and in 2014. [104] To mark its 30th anniversary, a remastered edition was released on September 10, 2021. The album was remastered by Bob Ludwig at Gateway Mastering, with all content overseen by executive producer Greg Fidelman. A limited edition box set was released, which includes the remastered album on a 180-gram double LP and a CD, as well as three live LPs, 14 CDs and six DVDs featuring unreleased content, and various other physical merchandise. [105] [106]

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes. [107] [101] [108]

Metallica

Additional musicians

Production

Charts

Certifications and sales

Certifications and sales for Metallica
RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Argentina (CAPIF) [201] 5× Platinum300,000^
Australia (ARIA) [51] 13× Platinum910,000‡
Austria (IFPI Austria) [202] 2× Platinum100,000*
Belgium (BEA) [203] 2× Platinum100,000*
Canada (Music Canada) [204] Diamond1,000,000^
Denmark (IFPI Danmark) [205] 8× Platinum160,000‡
Finland (Musiikkituottajat) [206] 2× Platinum118,956 [206]
France (SNEP) [207] Platinum300,000*
Germany (BVMI) [208] 4× Platinum2,000,000‡
Italy (FIMI) [209]
sales since 2009 		2× Platinum100,000*
Japan (RIAJ) [210] Platinum200,000^
Mexico (AMPROFON) [211] Gold75,000^ / 210,000 [212]
Netherlands (NVPI) [213] 2× Platinum200,000^
New Zealand (RMNZ) [53] 10× Platinum150,000^
Norway (IFPI Norway) [214] 3× Platinum150,000*
Poland (ZPAV) [215] Platinum20,000‡
Sweden (GLF) [216] Platinum100,000^
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland) [217] 3× Platinum150,000^
Turkey—300,000 [218]
United Kingdom (BPI) [219] 3× Platinum900,000‡
United States (RIAA) [220] 16× Platinum17,300,000 [221]
Summaries
Worldwide—30,000,000 [6]

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hero of the Day</span> 1996 single by Metallica

"Hero of the Day" is a song by American heavy metal band Metallica from their 1996 album Load. The song was recorded on December 13, 1995, at Plant Studios in Sausalito, California. "Hero of the Day" was Metallica's second single release from the album. The song became their second consecutive number-one hit on the US Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and reached number two in Australia, number three in Finland and number eight in Norway. The song is one of the few Metallica songs written primarily in a major key. A promotional video for the track was also filmed.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">The Unforgiven (song)</span> 1991 single by Metallica

"The Unforgiven" is a power ballad by American heavy metal band Metallica. It was released as the second single from their eponymous fifth album Metallica. The song deals with the theme of the struggle of the individual against the efforts of those who would subjugate him.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ain't My Bitch</span> 1996 promotional single by Metallica

"Ain't My Bitch" is a song by American heavy metal band Metallica from their sixth album, Load (1996). It is the opening track of the album and was released as a promotional single in Mexico. It reached number 15 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Metallica discography</span> Musical artists discography

The discography of American heavy metal band Metallica includes 11 studio albums, eight live albums, three extended plays, 49 singles, 10 video albums, 43 music videos, one soundtrack album, one collaboration album and three box sets. They are a San Francisco-based metal band formed in 1981 by James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich (drums). After several bassist and lead guitarist changes, the band settled on Cliff Burton and Kirk Hammett, respectively. Metallica started playing locally, releasing their first widely circulated demo, No Life 'til Leather, in 1982. The demo caught the attention of Johny Zazula, who signed Metallica to Megaforce Records. The band released Kill 'Em All in 1983, and the following year they released Ride the Lightning. After Ride the Lightning was released, Metallica left Megaforce and signed to Elektra Records. In March 1986, the band released its third studio album, Master of Puppets, which was Metallica's first album to be certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). While promoting the album, Burton was killed in a bus accident. Jason Newsted was hired as a replacement. The band's first release to feature Newsted was The $5.98 E.P. – Garage Days Re-Revisited, and then followed by ...And Justice for All in August 1988, which peaked at number six on the Billboard 200.

<i>Death Magnetic</i> 2008 studio album by Metallica

Death Magnetic is the ninth studio album by American heavy metal band Metallica, released on September 12, 2008, through Warner Bros. Records in the United States and Vertigo Records elsewhere. The album was produced by Rick Rubin, marking the band's first album since Metallica (1991) not to be produced by longtime collaborator Bob Rock, and with James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich as co-producers. It is also the first Metallica album to feature bassist Robert Trujillo, and only the second album to share writing credit with all four of the band's members.

Wherever We May Roam was a concert tour by the American heavy metal band Metallica in support of their eponymous fifth studio album. It began in autumn of 1991. The North American legs ran through summer 1992, followed by the Guns N' Roses/Metallica Stadium Tour, the Wherever We May Roam European leg, and finally the Nowhere Else to Roam tour of smaller markets in North America, Mexico, Asia, Australia, South America, Europe and Israel, ending in the summer of 1993.

<i>Reload</i> (Metallica album) 1997 studio album by Metallica

Reload is the seventh studio album by American heavy metal band Metallica, released on November 18, 1997, via Elektra Records. The album is a follow-up to Load, released the previous year, and Metallica's last studio album to feature bassist Jason Newsted. Reload debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, selling 436,000 copies in its first week. It was certified 3× platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for shipping three million copies in the United States.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Enter Sandman</span> 1991 single by Metallica

"Enter Sandman" is a song by American heavy metal band Metallica. It is the opening track and lead single from their self-titled fifth album, released in 1991. The music was written by Kirk Hammett, James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich. Vocalist and guitarist Hetfield wrote the lyrics, which deal with the concept of a child's nightmares.

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