Metallica – Metallica (1991/2008)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:02:39 minutes | 1,32 GB | Genre: Metal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Blackened Recordings – Universal Music
After the muddled production and ultracomplicated song structures of …And Justice for All, Metallica decided that they had taken the progressive elements of their music as far as they could and that a simplification and streamlining of their sound was in order. While the assessment made sense from a musical standpoint, it also presented an opportunity to commercialize their music, and Metallica accomplishes both goals. The best songs are more melodic and immediate, the crushing, stripped-down grooves of “Enter Sandman,” “Sad but True,” and “Wherever I May Roam” sticking to traditional structures and using the same main riffs throughout; the crisp, professional production by Bob Rock adds to their accessibility. “The Unforgiven” and “Nothing Else Matters” avoid the slash-and-burn guitar riffs that had always punctuated the band’s ballads; the latter is a full-fledged love song complete with string section, which works much better than might be imagined. The song- and riff-writing slips here and there, a rare occurrence for Metallica, which some longtime fans interpreted as filler next to a batch of singles calculated for commercial success. The objections were often more to the idea that Metallica was doing anything explicitly commercial, but millions more disagreed. In fact, the band’s popularity exploded so much that most of their back catalog found mainstream acceptance in its own right, while other progressively inclined speed metal bands copied the move toward simplification. In retrospect, Metallica is a good, but not quite great, album, one whose best moments deservedly captured the heavy metal crown, but whose approach also foreshadowed a creative decline. – Steve Huey
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Metallica – Master of Puppets (Remastered) (1986/2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 54:47 minutes | 1,18 GB | Genre: Metal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Blackened Recordings – Universal Music
Master of Puppets is the third studio album by Metallica. Recorded at the Sweet Silence Studios with producer Flemming Rasmussen, it was the first Metallica album released on a major label. Master of Puppets was the band’s last album to feature bassist Cliff Burton, who died in a bus crash in Sweden during the album’s promotional tour. The album peaked at number 29 on the Billboard 200 and became the first thrash metal album to be certified platinum. It was certified 6× platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America in 2003 for shipping six million copies in the United States. The album was eventually certified 6× platinum by Music Canada and gold by the British Phonographic Industry.
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Metallica – Lords Of Summer (2014/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 17:08 minutes | 219 MB | Genre: Metal
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“Lords of Summer” is a song by heavy metal band Metallica. This song was released in 2014 as a Digital Single and a limited edition Black Friday vinyl single containing the studio version and a live version of the song.
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Metallica – Live Sh*t: Binge & Purge (Remastered) (1993/2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:57:10 minutes | 4,09 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Blackened Recordings – Universal Music
Metallica are a band known for not doing things half way, and when they set out to make a live album, they did it on an epic scale. Metallica: Live Sh*t – Binge and Purge is a mammoth box set which on features a complete three hour concert recorded in Mexico City 1993 on compact disc, and on home video adds two more shows in their entirety – San Diego in 1992, and Seattle in 1989. If that wasn’t enough, the package also comes with an extensive souvenir booklet, a Metallica stencil, a replica of a “snakepit pass” from the 1992-93 tour, and more. Eight and a half hours of Metallica at the peak of their form, Metallica: Live Sh*t – Binge and Purge is the ultimate live set from one of America’s most consistently innovative hard rock bands.
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Metallica – Kill ‘Em All (1983/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 51:14 minutes | 1,16 GB | Genre: Metal
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Metallica’s 1st album, Kill ‘Em All is regarded as a groundbreaking album for thrash metal because of its precise musicianship, which fuses New Wave of British Heavy Metal riffs with hardcore punk tempos. Its musical approach and lyrics were markedly different from rock’s mainstream of the early Eighties and inspired a number of bands who followed in similar manner.
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Metallica – Hardwired… To Self-Destruct (Deluxe) (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:37:09 minutes | 3,50 GB | Genre: Metal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Blackened Recordings – Universal Music
Hardwired… to Self-Destruct is the tenth studio album by American heavy metal band Metallica, released as a double album on November 18, 2016 by their vanity label Blackened Recordings. It is their first studio album in eight years following Death Magnetic (2008), marking the longest gap between two studio albums in the band’s career. It is also their first studio album released through Blackened. Hardwired… to Self-Destruct was produced by Greg Fidelman, who engineered and mixed Death Magnetic.
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Metallica – Hardwired…To Self-Destruct (Remastered) (2016/2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 02:37:09 minutes | 2,02 GB | Genre: Rock, Metal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Blackened Recordings – Universal Music
Hardwired… to Self-Destruct is the tenth studio album by American heavy metal band Metallica, released as a double album on November 18, 2016 by their vanity label Blackened Recordings. It is their first studio album in eight years following Death Magnetic (2008), marking the longest gap between two studio albums in the band’s career. It is also their first studio album released through Blackened. Hardwired… to Self-Destruct was produced by Greg Fidelman, who engineered and mixed Death Magnetic.
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Metallica – Death Magnetic (2008/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:14:46 minutes | 1,61 GB | Genre: Metal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Blackened Recordings – Universal Music
Call Death Magnetic Kirk Hammett’s revenge. Famously browbeaten into accepting Lars Ulrich and producers Bob Rock’s dictum that guitar solos were “dated” and thereby verboten for 2003’s St. Anger — a fraught recording chronicled on the 2004 documentary Some Kind of Monster — Metallica’s lead guitarist dominates this 2008 sequel, playing with an euphoric fury not heard in years, if not decades. This aesthetic shift isn’t because Hammett suddenly rules the band: powerless to add solos to St. Anger, he couldn’t reinstate them without the blessing of Ulrich and James Hetfield, the politburo of Metallica. The duo suffered some combination of shame and humility in the wake of the muddled St. Anger and Monster, convincing these two unmovable forces to change direction. They ditched longtime producer Rock — who’d helmed every album since 1991’s breakthrough blockbuster Metallica — in favor of Rick Rubin, patron saint of all veteran rockers looking to reconnect with their early spark. Rubin may be the go-to producer for wayward superstars but as the producer of Slayer, he’s also rooted in thrash, so he understands the core of Metallica’s greatness and gently steers them back to basics on Death Magnetic.
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Metallica – 2021/10/10 Aftershock, Discovery Park, Sacramento, CA (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:50:18 minutes | 1,34 GB | Genre: Rock, Metal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Metallica
This was the second of two shows at the Aftershock festival.
The weekend promised “two unique sets” which, when all was said and done, delivered 33 different songs and no repeats across two nights.
The boys played The Black Album in its entirety from back to front for the first time in California.
“Fight Fire With Fire” made its 2021 debut during this set.
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Metallica – 2021/09/24 Louder Than Life, Highland Festival Grounds at Kentucky Expo Center, Louisville, KY (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:50:37 minutes | 1,37 GB | Genre: Metal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Metallica
This was the first of two shows at the Louder Than Life festival.
The weekend promised “two unique sets” which, when all was said and done, delivered 33 different songs and no repeats across two nights.
This was the first time in 21 years that “Whiplash” was performed in Kentucky. It was last played in the state on July 8, 2000 in Sparta… minus James Hetfield.
This was the first time in 35 years that “Ride the Lightning” was played in Louisville. It was last performed here on July 25, 1986.
This was the first time that “Cyanide,” “The Memory Remains,” and “Whiskey in the Jar” were performed in Kentucky.
This was the first time in 17 years that “No Leaf Clover” was played in Kentucky. It was last performed in the state on April 28, 2004.
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Metallica – 2019/03/04 Wichita, KS (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 02:22:18 minutes | 1,79 GB | Genre: Rock, Metal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Metallica
Complete concert audio recorded live at INTRUST Bank Arena in Wichita on March 4, 2019.
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Metallica – 2018/05/07 Stockholm, Sweden (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 02:16:46 minutes | 1,72 GB | Genre: Metal, Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Metallica
Two audio CDs featuring the complete show recorded live at Ericsson Globe in Stockholm, Sweden on May 7, 2018.
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Metallica – Beyond Magnetic (2011/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 29:10 minutes | 365 MB | Genre: Thrash Metal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Blackened Recordings – Universal Music
“Beyond Magnetic” is a 2011 EP by Metallica. It was released to coincide with the band’s 30th anniversary shows, in which they released a new song for all four days of the shows. It was originally released as a digital download only on iTunes on December 13, 2011. All four songs featured on Beyond Magnetic were all recorded for the group’s “Death Magnetic” sessions but had not been released. “Beyond Magnetic” was released on CD on January 30, 2012, internationally, and on the following day in the United States. As of 2013, Beyond Magnetic sold over 162,000 copies in the U.S.
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