On August 12, 1991, label “Elektra Records” released “Metallica” (best known as “The Black Album”), the fifth studio album Metallica. The album material was recorded in the period between October 6, 1990 and June 16, 1991at “One on One Recording Studios” and was produced by Bob Rock, James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich. The album received world wide critical acclaim and became the band’s best selling album ever. As of November 2014, the album has spent 328 weeks on the “Billboard” album chart, making it one of the ten longest running discs of all time. The album was certified 16× platinum by the ”Recording Industry Association of America” (RIAA) on December 13, 2012 and was ranked number 255 on “Rolling Stone”’ magazine list of “The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time”.
