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Originally Posted by mojopinuk
Yeah, but what qualifies as quality is a preference. The Black Album brought Metallica to a mainstream audience, possibly an audience who prefer that album to anything that came before it and whose opinion would be very different. So the one thing that isn't arguable is that it outsold any other metal album ever made (unless you want to class Led Zep, AC/DC and GnR as metal bands) and that, in itself, could be considered a crowning achievement.
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Yes, of course it's a preference. I was giving my personal opinion on the quality of the album. It's not a bad album, but I don't think it's their crowning achievement. I prefer any of the three albums that immediately preceded it. The fact that was so popular is neither here nor there to me in terms of my personal assessment of the album's quality. The simple fact is, when I'm in the mood for Metallica, it's not an album I'm very likely to reach for.