"It’s far harder to be a living legend than a dead one.
Metallica’s run of four albums between 1983 and 1988 defined a new sub-genre – thrash – while reinvigorating heavy metal. The Metallica album (a.k.a. ‘the Black Album’) in 1991 stayed true to their core sound while marrying it to the earworms that allowed them to conquer the Billboard charts and become the biggest metal band in the world."