  | Blog author: Alex Stojanovic While the Black Album is the album that started Metallica's journey into commercialism back in 1991, it's still one of the heaviest records of all time and one of the biggest-selling records ever. It still continues to sell like hotcakes to this day. Today, we celebrate the album's 25th anniversary. As I mentioned in my blog about the 30th anniversary of Master Of Puppets, Metallica has been a huge part of my life and the Black Album was the album that started my journey into metal just before I turned 12, and I think I can speak for many metalheads around the globe. It happened on June 24, 2004 (don't ask me how I remember that), the day I finished Grade 6. My dad had the Black Album in his CD collection for many years. I first heard Metallica's name when I was 9 or 10, but I never got around to listening to the music until the day I mentioned above. This is what happened. |
My first taste of the record was "Wherever I May Roam" when my dad, my brother and I were driving that evening to a place where we would ride bikes. The song was on the radio and it was heavier than the hard rock I've been listening to for years up to that point and I was always a fan of great riffs and tones. That song got stuck in my head right away, and after we rode bikes for a while, I was waiting to get home and listen to the song again. I put on the Black Album and listened to "Wherever I May Roam" until late in the night. I then woke up really early the next morning (like 6 a.m.), put the headphones on and started cranking the song again. Throughout that summer, I listened to the rest of the album and started to learn more about Metallica and familiarizing myself with the rest of their catalog. To this day, songs like "Through The Never", "Of Wolf & Man", "My Friend Of Misery" and "The Struggle Within" are always super fun to play on drums. However, "Enter Sandman" is the only song that I can't stand to hear anymore. It's not a bad song by any means, but after hearing the song so many times, I just got tired of it.
I wouldn't say the Black Album is my #1 favourite album ever, but it's one of my top 10, and it's one of those records that's really important to me because like I mentioned above, it was my introduction to metal. You can't deny what it did not only for Metallica, but for metal in general. I was born only a year after the record came out, but I can imagine being 24 years old in 1991, hearing the record for the first time and seeing the insanity that took place when the record stores opened on this day, 25 years ago and copies were being sold right out of the boxes. It has stood the test of time and will continue to do so.
I wouldn't say the Black Album is my #1 favourite album ever, but it's one of my top 10, and it's one of those records that's really important to me because like I mentioned above, it was my introduction to metal. You can't deny what it did not only for Metallica, but for metal in general. I was born only a year after the record came out, but I can imagine being 24 years old in 1991, hearing the record for the first time and seeing the insanity that took place when the record stores opened on this day, 25 years ago and copies were being sold right out of the boxes. It has stood the test of time and will continue to do so.
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