“Metallica released the best-selling album of their career, 1991’s Black Album, in the middle of an identity crisis. That same year Nirvana released Nevermind, a disc that immediately made the previous decade’s worth of metal seem kitschy and outdated. Even while outselling the albums on which Metallica built their fan base in the Eighties, the […]”
“A twisted barbed wire sign spans the entrance to the Ben Elektra Kibbutz in Metulla, Israel. It reads: "And Justice for All." There, in the country's northernmost town, pinched by Lebanon, and set in a valley as arid and colorless as an Anton Corbijn photo, my brothers and I assembled compact discs for Elektra Records, far from the reach of cable modems and CDRWs. After long days of picking rare ”
