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Metallica’s Black Album Sees a New Dawn with 53 (Count ‘Em!) Celebrity Covers in ‘The Metallica Blacklist’: Album Review

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A.D. Amorosi Go ahead: make the “None more black” Spinal Tap joke when it comes to Metallica’s eponymously titled 1991 album.

It wasn’t just the cover but the band’s melodic nihilism that made that dopey dig unironic. And it’s Metallica’s bleak romanticism and the mainstreaming of its intricate thrash-speed aesthetic that make the so-called “Black Album” worth mega-celebrating now, with a 30th anniversary remaster (complete with hundreds of studio outtakes and live rarities) and a separate tribute package featuring 53 artists of all stripes reinterpreting morose metal’s gleaming twilight.The super-deluxe “Metallica” is a handsome kit for obsessive fans as it features everything from band interviews with David Fricke to bruising.

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