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Metallica: The Black Album at 35

Metallica - Metallica (The Black Album)

Released: 1991

Three divorces, a $1 million budget, three full remixes, and a producer they swore never to work with again — the album that slowed Metallica down and outsold the entire SoundScan era.

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Black Sabbath: "Paranoid" at 56

Black Sabbath - Paranoid

Released: 1970

Short a song for their second album, Black Sabbath wrote the title track in twenty-five minutes to fill the runtime — and accidentally invented heavy metal's commercial breakthrough.