Metallica To Resurrect 'Black Album' This Summer On Select Tour-dates!

Metallica will perform the band's top-selling 1991 LP, "Metallica", A.K.A. "the black album," at the following European festival appearances next June.

- June 01: Nürnberg, Germany at Rock Im Park
- June 02: Nürburgring, Germany at Rock Am Ring
- June 09: Donington, England at Download
- June 10: Nickelsdorf, Austria at Nova Rock

More shows will be announced soon.

Here are some facts about "the Black Album":

- Metallica (also known as The Black Album) is the bands self-titled fifth studio album.

- "The Black Album" was produced by Bob Rock, and it was released on August 12, 1991 through Elektra Records to critical acclaim.

- The album produced six hit singles: "Enter Sandman", "Don't Tread on Me", "The Unforgiven", "Nothing Else Matters", "Wherever I May Roam", and "Sad but True".

This is what drummer Lars Ulrich told Kerrang! magazine, when asked why Metallica decided to do "the Black Album" at next years Download Festival.

"The people at Download asked. It wasn't our idea. The thing is, although we haven't played at Donington for six years, we have been to the U.K. pretty much every single summer since then." Ulrich added, "So they wanted us to do something different, and that's what they came up with. I quite like the fact that come next summer it'll be the 21st anniversary of the 'black album,' not the 20th."

Regarding if his him and band-mates would have to re-learn the two songs from the record — "Don't Tread On Me" and "The Struggle Within" — that Metallica has never played live before, Lars said,"Yeah. Although to be honest with you, a song like 'The Struggle Within' is a lot easier to re-learn than 'The Frayed Ends Of Sanity'. I don't think it's going to be too difficult for us to figure out these songs."

Track listing of "the Black Album":

- 1. "Enter Sandman"
- 2. "Sad but True"
- 3. "Holier Than Thou"
- 4. "The Unforgiven"
- 5. "Wherever I May Roam"
- 6. "Don't Tread on Me"
- 7. "Through the Never"
- 8. "Nothing Else Matters"
- 9. "Of Wolf and Man"
- 10. "The God That Failed"
- 11. "My Friend of Misery"
- 12. "The Struggle Within"



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