I must admit that I découvers metallica and the metal at the same time with this album and I enjoyed it right away. I must say that this black album has catchy tubes immediately and that its release was the album that immediately placed the heavy metal in the mainstream box (remember the pub "metallica that's it!" with nothing else matters in the background) and that made me instantly want to immerse myself in retrospect the band's discography. and there, in shock! the first four albums are more difficult to access but oh so more intoxicating! then I stopped drinking shandy with the black album and got dropped on major crus. yeah! because the cooler is still the alcohol but with lemonade so it works well and it's not too bad. yeah! well, metallica black album and it's all the same: they have rounded corners and formatted their music to make it more presentable (we call it evolve, ripen, grow or will not be repeated and pass a course, etc. ... blah blah blah and I sell you encyclopedias by whole pallets)) metallica but lost in passing that little something called genius and not return. Therefore, the black album, it's nice but it's not the best disk metallica. Moreover later the group began to plain water with dung that are vile and unworthy load and reload, st anger itself being a sad farce. So this black album is still to this day the last acceptable product musically marketed by the company metallica & co.