The album’s impact and relevance continue to grow-as proven by one indisputable fact: The Black Album remains unchallenged as the best-selling album in the history of Nielsen Soundscan, outselling every release in every genre over the past 30 years. The album’s reception from the press was similarly charged, building over the years from the top 10 of the 1991 Village Voice Pazz & Jop national critics poll to becoming a constant presence in the likes of Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time. Its 1991 release not only gave Metallica its first #1 album in no fewer than 10 countries, including a 4-week run at #1 in the U.S., its unrelenting series of singles - “Enter Sandman”, “The Unforgiven”, “Nothing Else Matters”, “Wherever I May Roam”, and “Sad But True” - fueled the band’s rise to stadium headlining, radio and MTV dominating household name status. The Black Album is one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed records of all time. Metallica marks the 30th anniversary of its self-titled fifth album - a/k/a The Black Album - with two landmark releases, both out September 10th on the band’s own Blackened Recordings:
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