Metallica’s eponymously titled fifth studio album, more commonly known as 'The Black Album', is the heavy metal giant’s best-selling album to date and it’s no surprise. The Black Album produced five singlesthat are among the band’s best-known songs, including Enter Sandman, Sad But True, Nothing Else Matters, Wherever I May Roam and The Unforgiven.
The album marks a change in Metallica’s direction from theearly thrash metal roots of the band’s previous four studio albums towards a more commercial, heavy metal sound, that helped the record début at number one on the Billboard 200.
Jamie Humphries shows youhowJames Hetfield and Kirk Hammett use multiple parts, powerful riffs, and blistering solos to create the songs that have helped make 1991’s The Black Album a classic album.
