Lick Library: Classic Albums Metallica – The Black Album

Metallica’s eponymously titled fifth studio album, more commonly known as ‘The Black Album’, is the heavy metal giant’s best-selling album to date and it’s no surprise. The Black Album produced five singles that are among the band’s best-known songs, including Enter Sandman, Sad But True, Nothing Else Matters, Wherever I May Roam and The Unforgiven.

The album marks a change in Metallica’s direction from the early thrash metal roots of the band’s previous four studio albums towards a more commercial, heavy metal sound, that helped the record début at number one on the Billboard 200.

Jamie Humphries shows you how James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett use multiple parts, powerful riffs, and blistering solos to create the songs that have helped make 1991’s The Black Album a classic album.

Learn to play the following:

Enter Sandman
Sad but True
Holier Than Thou
The Unforgiven
Wherever I May Roam
Don’t Tread on Me
Through the Never
Nothing Else Matters
Of Wolf and Man
My Friend Of Misery
The Struggle Within