The album, called The Blacklist, which comes out Friday, contains 53 renditions of the Black Album’s 12 songs by dozens of artists from diverse backgrounds and genres the running time lasts more than four hours. Now, a new compilation reveals the breadth of Metallica’s influence. “Metallica certainly aren’t a pop band, but they are a pop band because they became popular,” says Keith Morris, the Black Flag and Circle Jerks singer who now fronts Off!, a punk-rock supergroup. Kim Kardashian and Justin Bieber now wear Metallica T-shirts as fashion statements, and Lady Gaga recently collaborated with the band at a Grammys performance. Non-metalheads have come to enjoy hearing “Enter Sandman” at baseball games or Shakira covering “Nothing Else Matters” at one of her concerts.
The record was an immediate Number One hit and has since sold more than 30 million copies around the world, making it one of the bestselling albums of recent decades. It felt invigorating, and it just fucking all worked out.” That was something we’d never done before. At that time, when we’d reach a fork in the road, we’d take the simpler one. “Writing a simple song is way fucking harder than writing a crazy-busy, sideways, 10-minute song, and just cramming it all in there, so writing an ‘Enter Sandman’ is a hard thing to set out to do. “For many artists, the holy grail is simplicity,” Ulrich says now, looking back. But they achieved mainstream success with their self-titled fifth album - better known now as the Black Album for its austere, Beatles-in-reverse sleeve - on which they simplified their sound on straightforward hard-rock songs like “Enter Sandman” and “The Unforgiven” that didn’t sacrifice the primal ferocity of their early work. In their formative years, the musicians unfurled intricate speed-metal overtures like “Master of Puppets” and the psychodrama of their Grammy-winning “One” without even breaking a sweat. I knew that that was something that we would never - or could never - do.”įor many music fans, Metallica have long represented the apotheosis of heavy-metal grit, defined by Hetfield’s growl and chunky riffing, Hammett’s rapid-fire yet still soulful leads, and drummer Lars Ulrich’s forceful rhythms. “I would listen to their records, and I was such a fan of James Hetfield’s singing, and the guitar was so hard. “When Hootie and the Blowfish were making and selling records, Metallica was that band that made me feel so wimpy,” Darius Rucker, now 55, says. Metallica, along with Nirvana, were definitely the most important to me when I was younger.” “Some of my earliest musical heroes were U.S. “Metallica’s music was hugely important to me as a kid,” says J Balvin, the 36-year-old Colombian reggaeton artist.
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