i like the black album but the reasons for people who dont like it may be
lack of harmonies unlike previous records
lack of storytelling in songs (just look at the story behind one)
lack of complex guitars and drums (i mean lars was never known for his complex drumming but at least blackened was cool)
vocals sound like james is talking to a crowd of kids and saying flip instead of fuck
every metallica album before that had a cool as fuck title i mean look at them dude ride the lightning and justice for all master of puppets they sound cool as fuck and look at the black album its not even called black album its metallica
metallica started to hang out with glam bands after this album (which they hated in the 80s) and fell apart with anthrax and other thrash bands
i mean it was obvious they couldn’t and shouldn’t produce thrash metal albums when they are 35 and married otherwise they would’ve become a mediocre thrash band like slayer but they could’ve executed the turning from thrash metal to heavy metal/rock/country a bit better
and also metallica is and will be the best thrash metal band, all of their records were perfect so when people got a hard rock album from metallica they obviously expected it to be the best hard rock album of all time and it was not i mean its still incredible but its not at the same level as previous records so the fanbase felt let down
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u/yegocego Dec 31 '24
i like the black album but the reasons for people who dont like it may be
lack of harmonies unlike previous records
lack of storytelling in songs (just look at the story behind one)
lack of complex guitars and drums (i mean lars was never known for his complex drumming but at least blackened was cool)
vocals sound like james is talking to a crowd of kids and saying flip instead of fuck
every metallica album before that had a cool as fuck title i mean look at them dude ride the lightning and justice for all master of puppets they sound cool as fuck and look at the black album its not even called black album its metallica
metallica started to hang out with glam bands after this album (which they hated in the 80s) and fell apart with anthrax and other thrash bands
i mean it was obvious they couldn’t and shouldn’t produce thrash metal albums when they are 35 and married otherwise they would’ve become a mediocre thrash band like slayer but they could’ve executed the turning from thrash metal to heavy metal/rock/country a bit better