Metallica’s “Black Album” Took Them from Metal Heroes to Multiplatinum Rock Giants Greg Prato. The iconic disc continues to crack the Billboard 200 chart each week to this day.

One album that is consistently referred to as a sellout record is Metallica’s self-titled record, better known as The Black Album, which celebrates its 25th anniversary on Aug. 12.

On the latest Billboard 200 albums chart, Metallica's self-titled 1991 album collects a landmark 500th week on the list, Paul Simon debuts with a new covers collection (of his own semi-obscure ...

Metallica’s 1991 self-titled No. 1 album surges back into the top 10 on the Billboard 200 chart for the first time in 29 years, following the set’s 30th anniversary reissue on Sept. 10. By ...

Colloquially known as the Black Album, Metallica‘s self-titled fifth album still towers over the modern hard-rock and metal landscape like a giant obsidian monolith. Released 25 years ago today ...

Metallica’s Black Album Sees a New Dawn with 53 (Count ‘Em!) Celebrity Covers in ‘The Metallica Blacklist’: Album Review Artists as diverse as Miley Cyrus, Phoebe Bridgers, J Balvin, Jason ...

Metallica’s “The Black Album” — which sold more than 16 million copies — celebrated its 30th anniversary last month, and a remastered edition comes out this Friday along with a 53-track tribute album.

UPDATE (8/13): The Metallica Podcast: Volume 1 – The Black Album will premiere on August 20th, the 30th anniversary of the band’s self-titled fifth LP. A trailer for the show has dropped as well.

The Black Album has sold 30 million copies – one-quarter of all of the units shifted by Metallica. That success wasn’t an accident. Metallica’s goal going into the studio had been to write ...

The Black Album became Metallica's first LP to top the chart. In 2020, it reentered the Billboard 200, making it the fourth longest-charting album and No. 1 best-selling album in Nielsen history.

More than two decades after its release, Metallica has a new metallic ring to it. Sounds like "ka-ching"! The trailblazing metal band's self-titled 1991 set, known as "The Black Album," has become ...