Thirty years later, Metallica reissues its Black Album, accompanied by a cover album

Fifty-three tracks and four hours of covers.

This Friday, September 10 comes a reissue

of Metallica's

, accompanied by a gargantuan album of covers.

Undoubtedly the most iconic album of the group, and undoubtedly its greatest success, the album of the group is that of planetary hits for Metallica.

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Before the arrival of the CD and Vinyl version on October 1, the reissue and cover album are already being listened to on streaming platforms.

The deluxe box set will therefore contain the remastered album on 180 gram vinyl, but also fourteen CDs, an image disc, a photo book and even guitar picks.

The reissue comes with

an eclectic cast cover album.

We find, among others, the reggaeton icon J Balvin, several independent rock stars such as Mac Demarco, Phoebe Bridgers, Weezer or My Morning Jacket, the hip-hop of the Neptunes and Flatbush Zombies, the French electro musician SebastiAn, pop stars from Miley Cyrus and Rina Sawayama, folk from Rodrigo y Gabriela, and jazz from Kamasi Washington.

The Californian group has chosen to donate the profits from their cover album to the association All Within My Hands, a foundation which fights in particular for access to education and against hunger.

Each artist on the cover album was also able to choose the association to which he wished to donate the profits.

A success never denied

Released on August 13, 1991,

has passed on to posterity as the

because of its cover and its dark as night packaging. The band then stayed on

, two critical and commercial hits that had already established their status as a heavy metal juggernaut. This new album drives the point home, helped by inevitable hits such as E

,

,

or

. When it was released, the album spends four weeks at the top of the American Billboard, a first for the group led by James Hetflied and Lars Ulrich.

More than a phenomenon of the turn of the 90s, the success of this record has crossed the years and the generations, breaking at the same time several sales records. Sixteen times platinum disc in the United States, the

is thus one of the four albums to have spent more than 550 weeks in the American charts, beaten only by the

of Pink Floyd, and the best- of by Bob Marley and Journey.