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1991. Der Grunge-Boom ist in vollem Gange und wird in Kürze mit NIRVANAs „Nevermind“ seinen Höhepunkt erreichen. Metal scheint auf dem absteigenden Ast zu sein. Doch im August veröffentlichen METALLICA ihr selbstbetiteltes fünftes Album, auch bekannt als das „Black Album“. Eine Platte, mit der die Band sich über alle Trends hinwegsetzte und einen Platz im Rock-Olymp sicherte.

Als Produzent haben sie sich den renommierten Bob Rock gekrallt. MÖTLEY CRÜE hat er bereits zwei Jahre zuvor zu ihrem ersten Nummer-Eins-Album verholfen. Das wollen METALLICA auch. Der Sound ist polierter, aufgeräumter und fetter als auf allen vorherigen Album. Gleiches gilt für das Songmaterial. Der progressive Trend von „Master Of Puppets“ und „…And Justice For All“ weicht stringenteren, simpleren Songs, die klaren Strukturen folgen. Eingängigkeit ist das Gebot der Stunde. Schon die erste Single „Enter Sandman“, die das Album eröffnet, präsentiert sich mehr als Hard-Rock-Hymne denn Metal-Massaker. Das prägnante Gitarrenriff kennt wohl jedes (Metal-)Kind, genauso wie den Mitgröl-Refrain, der das Stadion bei jedem METALLICA-Konzert zum beben bringt.

In der Folge wird der Hitfaktor immer weiter nach oben geschraubt. Das schleppende Groove-Monster „Sad But True“ lädt zum tanzen ein. In „Holier Than Thou“ scheint im Intro den Thrash zurückzuholen, entpuppt sich aber ebenfalls als Hard-Rock-Ohrwurm. Die erste Ballade folgt sogleich in Form von „The Unforgiven“. Das melancholische Stück folgt nicht der Tradition von „One oder „Fade To Black“. Wer auf den harten Metal-Part wartet, wird bitter enttäuscht. Schlecht ist der Song deswegen aber noch lange nicht. Doch wie so oft auf dem „Black Album“, müssen METALLICA-Fans der ersten Stunde ihre Erwartungen an die Band zu Hause lassen, um hier Freude zu haben.

Quelle: https://www.metal.de/reviews/metallica-metallica-204342/
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Any attempt to move away from a tried and tested formula is often met with resistance by some fans who never want their idols to change. Smarter than your average heavy metal band, the more complex turn-on-a dime twists of their previous albums, Master Of Puppets and 1989’s And Justice For All, were trimmed back in favour of a more honed-down delivery.

Though the band didn’t always see eye to eye with Bob Rock (who had previously cut his teeth engineering for the likes of Bon Jovi before producing Motley Crue’s Dr.Feelgood), the tensions between the two camps resulted in an album bursting at the seams with alternative ideas.

Sure enough, accusations that they had sold out came from the rump of hardcore fans within seconds of their fifth album being released in 1991. Several years later thousands of fans signed an online petition calling on the band to sever its links with Bob Rock such was their conviction that their beloved Metallica had strayed from the straight and narrow.

Yet his involvement gained them mass sales (number one on both sides of the Atlantic) and earned them the Grammy they’d missed out on, having lost out to Jethro Tull’s Catfish Rising the previous year. With millions of new fans going on to discover their back catalogue, Metallica moved from cult metal gods to bona fide rock stars, straddling the airwaves with the psycho-dramatics of “Enter Sandman”, whose terse motifs served notice that things were changing.

The spaghetti western set dressing of “The Unforgiven”, “Nothing Else Matters” with its sensitive lyrics and string section embellishments, as well as the widescreen dynamics of “My Friend Of Misery” demonstrated how keen they were to move things on. In “The God That Failed”, vocalist, rhythm guitarist and principle writer, James Hetfield deals unflinchingly with parental loss and the contradictions of faith in a mature and considered manner.

The confidence exuding from almost every track isn’t due to a clichéd, puffed-up HM swagger but a result of literate and articulate artists breaking free of generic expectation.


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