Metallica- Black Album 35th Anniversary- James Hetfield, Kirk Hammett 8/3

Quickly christened “the Black Album”, August 1991’s Metallica became the hard rock album for people who thought they didn’t like hard rock, in much the same way that another black-clad phenomenon, AC/DC’s Back in Black, had done a decade earlier.

Lead singer/guitarist James Hetfield and lead guitarist Kirk Hammett are refreshingly transparent about their struggles in wrestling with Metallica’s blunt-force sonic tsunami in the recording studio; releasing long-held assumptions about platinum paranoia; relinquishing total control and adopting an attitude of creative collaboration with hard rock veteran producer Bob Rock; and writing and recording SONGS as opposed to just riffs, including “Enter Sandman”, “The Unforgiven”, “Wherever I May Roam”, “Nothing Else Matters”, and”Sad but True”. Don’t miss this thirty-fifth anniversary look at one of the most popular albums ever with James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett here In the Studio next week beginning Monday! –Redbeard