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Metallica

1991 studio album by Metallica
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Metallica
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Summary

Metallica is an album[1]. Metallica ranks in the top 0.11% of album entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (18,175 views/month, #68 of 60,676).[2]

Key Facts

  • Genre: heavy metal music[3], traditional heavy metal[4]
  • Producer: Bob Rock[5]
  • Performer: Metallica[6]
  • Record label: Elektra[7], Vertigo Records[8], Universal Music Group[9]
  • Place of publication: United States[10]
  • Part of: Metallica's albums in chronological order[11], Metallica studio albums discography[12]
  • Language of work or name: English[13]
  • Distribution format: Compact Disc Digital Audio[14], music streaming[15], music download[16]
  • Publication date: August 12, 1991[17]
  • Tracklist: Enter Sandman[18], Sad but True[19], Holier Than Thou[20], The Unforgiven[21], Wherever I May Roam[22], Don't Tread on Me[23], Through the Never[24], Nothing Else Matters[25], Of Wolf and Man[26], The God That Failed[27], My Friend of Misery[28], The Struggle Within[29]
  • Official website: https://www.metallica.com/releases/albums/release-4213.html[30]
  • Nickname: The Black Album[31]
  • Title: Metallica[32]
  • Has characteristic: eponymously titled work[33]
  • Different from: The Black Album[34], Metallica[35]
  • Duration: 3751 seconds[36]
  • Number of parts of this work: 12 audio track[37]
  • Form of creative work: studio album[38]

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Release type: Album[39]

  • First release date: 1991-08-12[40]

  • Genre(s): hard rock, heavy metal, metal, rock, thrash metal[41]

  • Community tags: hard rock, heavy metal, jahrescharts 2024, metal, new wave of american heavy metal, nwoahm, rock, thrash metal[42]

  • MusicBrainz ID: e8f70201-8899-3f0c-9e07-5d6495bc8046[43]

Why It Matters

Metallica has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[44] Metallica is known by 41 alternative names across languages and contexts.[45]

Related Entities

Compact Disc Digital Audio Elektra Metallica United States Universal Music Group Vertigo Records

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . Apple Music. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . MusicBrainz. wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . radiofrance.fr. Retrieved . radiofrance.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  35. [37] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  36. [38] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [39] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [40] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [41] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [42] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [43] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [44] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [45] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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