Oct 7th 1986 SLAYER released the album "Reign In Blood"
Recorded in June to July 1986
Studio: Hit City West, Los Angeles, California
Genre: Thrash metal
Length: 28:58
Label: Def Jam Geffen
Producer: Rick Rubin Slayer
KerrangMagazine described it as the "heaviest album of all time”.
Peaked at number 94 on the US billboard chart.
25 years ago, a great album was released. The album name is Metallica but commonly known as The Black Album. The eponymously titled fifth studio album by American heavy metal band Metallica. Released on August 12, 1991, by Elektra Records.
It became the band's best-selling album and received widespread critical acclaim. Five singles of this album are still considered to be among the band's best-known songs: "Enter Sandman", "Sad but True", "Nothing Else Matters", "The Unforgiven", and "Wherever I May Roam". "Don't Tread on Me" was also issued to rock radio shortly after the album's release, but the song did not receive a commercial single release.
The album marked a change in the band's sound from the thrash metal style of the band's previous four albums to a heavy metal. Metallica promoted the album with a series of tours. In 2003, the album was ranked number 252 on Rolling Stone's 500 greatest albums of all time.
The recording of Metallica was troubled; the band frequently entered conflicts with Bob Rock, the band's new producer, during production. The album debuted at number one in ten countries and spent four consecutive weeks at the top spot of the Billboard 200, making it Metallica's first album to top album charts. By February 2016, the album spent 363 weeks on the Billboard album chart, making it one of the ten longest running discs of all time. Metallica is one of the best-selling albums worldwide, and the best-selling album in the United States since Nielsen SoundScan tracking began.
To date, worldwide, “The Black Album“ has sold over 30 million copies. In 2014, it became the first record to sell over 16 million copies since SoundScan started charting record sales in 1991. In addition, the disc has spent the most weeks, 307, on the Billboard 200 chart during the SoundScan era. That makes it the third-longest-charting studio album behind Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon and Carole King’s Tapestry. And according to Billboard, as of February 2014, the record was selling an average of two to three thousand copies per week.
Album Info:
Released: August 12, 1991
Recorded: October 6, 1990 – June 16, 1991 on One on One Recording Studios Los Angeles, California
Genre: Heavy metal
Length: 62:31
Label: Elektra
Producer: Bob Rock James Hetfield Lars Ulrich Track listing Total length:62:31
1."Enter Sandman" - James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett - 5:29
2."Sad but True" - James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich - 5:24
3."Holier Than Thou" - James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich - 3:47
4."The Unforgiven" - Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammett - 6:26
5."Wherever I May Roam" - James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich - 6:42
6."Don't Tread on Me" - James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich - 3:59
7."Through the Never" - Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammett - 4:01
8."Nothing Else Matters" - James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich - 6:29
9."Of Wolf and Man" - Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammett - 4:16
10."The God That Failed" - James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich - 5:05
11."My Friend of Misery" - Hetfield, Ulrich, Jason Newsted - 6:47
12."The Struggle Within" - James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich - 3:51
29 Years ago, on 3rd August 1987, The new wave british heavy metal band from Sheffield, England , released one of the reatest album in the world "Hsyteria". It is the fourth studio album, produced by Robert John "Mutt" Lange, released through Mercury Records and reissued on 1 January 2000. It is the band's best-selling album to date, selling over 25 million copies worldwide, including 12 million in the US, and spawning seven hit singles. The album charted at #1 on both the Billboard 200 and the UK Albums Chart.
The auto accident that happened to drummer Rick Allen in 1984, inspired the title of the album. It is also the last album to feature guitarist Steve Clark before his death, although songs co-written by him would appear in the band's next album, Adrenalize. The album was, at the time, one of the longest albums ever issued on a single vinyl record. It lasts 62 and a half minutes.
Following-up to the band's 1983 breakthrough album Pyromania, Hysteria's creation took over three years and was plagued by delays, including the aftermath of the 31 December 1984 car accident that cost drummer Rick Allen his left arm. A month and a half later after the accident, Allen was out of the hospital and back with his band again, understandably bummed because he didn’t think he’d be able to keep playing drums. For drummers in popular rock bands, the use of both arms had, to that point, always been sort of a career requirement. But Leppard frontman Joe Elliott pushed a depressed Allen to meet with engineers, who’d eventually help Allen put together a mostly-electronic drum kit that he could still play with one arm missing, using his feet to trigger synthetic booms. And that triumphant story fundamentally changed the band’s sound, leading them to spend the next couple of years making their best and biggest album. So Hysteria, which turns 25 today, is a triumph of the human spirit, and it’s also an album that changed the way commercial rock sounded. It’s a special thing.
[Stereogum] Leppard was always known as a metal band, and the cyber-freaked Hysteria cover art used to scare the eight-year-old me when I saw it staring at me on the Woolworth’s music rack, the same way Iron Maiden covers would scare me (in a good way). But really, Hysteria isn’t a metal record at all. It’s the biggest, shiniest, most expensive-sounding rock record maybe ever. It’s all hooks and keyboard diddles and ahh-ahh backing vocals. And gigantic drums. Because of his disability and his brand-new drum setup, Allen didn’t play like a rock drummer anymore; he played like a mechanized beast. Leppard had always brought a serious glam-rock fixation to their sound, but with Allen playing the way he did, they took that even further, bringing the thunderously simplistic backbeat stomp of T. Rex and Gary Glitter into an era when rap and rave were in their commercial infancy. Over those gigantic beats, they layered yelps and squiggles and goofy samples and hooks so sticky that, listening to the album today for the first time in a few years, I can sing along with pretty much every word no problem. The band spent years recording and rerecording and mixing and re-mixing the thing, making it sound as glittery and humungous as they possibly could, and when it came out, they apologized for taking so long in the liner notes. But the levels of antiseptic perfection in this album takes time to achieve, and really, they had nothing to feel sorry for.
Subsequent to the album's release, Def Leppard published a book entitled Animal Instinct: The Def Leppard Story, written by Rolling Stone magazine Senior Editor David Fricke, on the three-year recording process of Hysteria and the tough times the band endured through the mid-1980s.
In 1988 Q magazine readers voted it as the 98th Greatest Album of All Time, while in 2004, the album was ranked at #464 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
All songs written and composed by Steve Clark, Phil Collen, Joe Elliott, Mutt Lange and Rick Savage.
32 Years Ago, On July 27 1984, METALLICA Released the Great Album Ride The Lightning
Ride the Lightning is the second studio album of American thrash metal band Metallica, released on July 27, 1984, by the independent label Megaforce Records. Produced by Metallica and Flemming Rasmussen. Recorded between February 20 – March 14, 1984 at Sweet Silence Studios in Copenhagen, Denmark. This Thrash metal genre album has length: 47:23
Track listing:
All lyrics written by James Hetfield, except "Creeping Death" by Hetfield and Kirk Hammett.
1."Fight Fire with Fire" by Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Cliff Burton4:45
2."Ride the Lightning" by Hetfield, Ulrich, Burton, Dave Mustaine6:36
3."For Whom the Bell Tolls" by Hetfield, Ulrich, Burton5:09
4."Fade to Black" by Hetfield, Ulrich, Burton, Hammett6:57
5."Trapped Under Ice" by Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammett4:04
6."Escape" by Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammett4:23
7."Creeping Death" by Hetfield, Ulrich, Burton, Hammett6:36
8."The Call of Ktulu" (instrumental) by Hetfield, Ulrich, Burton, Mustaine
24 years ago on July 6th 1992 MEGADETH released the Album "Countdown To Extinction". It is the fifth studio album by American thrash metal band Megadeth, released on July 6, 1992 through Capitol Records. It was the group's second studio release to feature the "classic" lineup of Dave Mustaine, Marty Friedman, David Ellefson and Nick Menza, with all of them contributing to songwriting on the album. The album features some of the band's best known songs such as "Symphony of Destruction", "Sweating Bullets" and "Skin o' My Teeth", which enjoyed significant chart success and made a great musical impact.
The album got nomination for Best Metal Performance at the 1993 Grammy Awards, while the album's title track won the Humane Society's Genesis Award for raising awareness for animal rights issues.
Track listing
1. "Skin o' My Teeth" (3:14)
2. "Symphony of Destruction" (4:02)
3. "Architecture of Aggression" (3:34)
4. "Foreclosure of a Dream" (4:17)
5. "Sweating Bullets" (5:03 and 5:27 on the 2004 reissue)
6. "This Was My Life" (3:42)
7. "Countdown to Extinction" (4:16)
8. "High Speed Dirt" (4:12 and 4:21 on the 2004 reissue)
The phenomenal Extreme Aggression, fourth studio album by German thrash metal band KREATOR, released in 1989. Produced by Randy Burns, recording was complete by late March. After two shows in Greece, KREATOR traveled to England and between 15 April and 7 June 1989 played at least 37 dates across Europe.
Exactly on the June 19th, Extreme Aggression was released by Noise in Europe and Epic in the US. A few weeks later, the beginning of September, KREATOR arrived in New York to begin a US/Canada tour: 44 dates between 2 September and 28 October.
While the band had already gained a sizeable following in the US due to their 1987 tour with the crossover thrash band D.R.I., this album introduced many American fans to Kreator, primarily through heavy rotation of the "Betrayer" music video on MTV's Headbangers Ball, which was partly shot at the Acropolis in Athens, Greece. This album was their first issued in the US by Epic Records. The album was also available on picture disc vinyl.
At least, two songs of that album, "Betrayer" and "Extreme Aggression" became hits. Check out the videos below:
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