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===Accolades===
===Accolades===
In ''The Village Voice''{{'}}s annual [[Pazz & Jop]] critics poll, ''…And Justice for All'' was voted the 39th best album of 1988, having received 117 votes, including 12 first-place votes.<ref>{{cite news|title=The 1988 Pazz & Jop Critics Poll|url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/pnj/pjres88.php|newspaper=The Village Voice|location=New York|date=February 28, 1989|accessdate=January 12, 2014}}</ref> The album was ranked at number nine on [[IGN]]'s Top 25 Metal Albums.<ref>{{cite web|title=Top 25 Metal Albums|url=http://uk.ign.com/articles/2007/01/20/top-25-metal-albums?page=5|work=[[IGN]]|accessdate=June 14, 2013}}</ref> In a 2006 reader poll by ''[[Guitar World]]'', ''…And Justice for All'' was placed 12th among the 100 Greatest Guitar Albums.<ref>{{cite journal|title=100 Greatest Guitar Albums|url=http://rateyourmusic.com/list/Boggs1027/guitar_worlds_100_greatest_guitar_albums_of_all_time/4/|journal=[[Guitar World]]|date=October 2006|accessdate=August 21, 2014}}</ref> All of the album's tracks were featured on "The 100 Greatest Metallica Songs of All Time" made by the same magazine.<ref>{{cite journal|author=''Guitar World'' staff|title=The 100 Greatest Metallica Songs of All Time|url=http://www.guitarworld.com/100-greatest-songs-by-metallica|accessdate=June 13, 2013|journal=Guitar World|date=June 7, 2013}}</ref> ''[[Kerrang!]]'' listed the album at number 42 among the "100 Greatest Heavy Metal Albums of All Time".<ref>{{cite journal|last=Rhodes|first=Al|work=[[Kerrang!]]|title=Metallica '…And Justice for All'|volume=222|publisher=Spotlight Publications Ltd.|date=January 21, 1989|location=London, UK}}</ref> Martin Popoff ranks the effort at number 19 in his book ''The Top 500 Heavy Metal Albums of All Time'', the fourth highest ranked Metallica album on the list.<ref name="500 Albums">{{cite book|last=Popoff|first=Martin|title=The Top 500 Heavy Metal Albums of All Time|year=2004|publisher=ECW Press|location=Toronto, Canada|isbn=978-1-55022-600-3|pages=Chapter 19}}</ref> The album is featured in Robert Dimery's ''[[1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die]]''.<ref name="1001albums">{{cite book|title=[[1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die]]|year=2005|editor1-first=Robert|editor1-last=Dimery|editor2-first=Joel|editor2-last=McIver|edition=1st|publisher=Universe Publishing|isbn=978-0-7893-1371-3|page=596}}</ref> In 2017, it was ranked 21st on ''[[Rolling Stone]]''{{'s}} list of "100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time".<ref>{{cite web|last1=Epstein|first1=Dan|title=100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/the-100-greatest-metal-albums-of-all-time-w486923/pantera-far-beyond-driven-1994-w487081|website=[[Rolling Stone]]|publisher=Wenner Media LLC|accessdate=22 June 2017|date=21 June 2017}}</ref>
In ''The Village Voice''{{'}}s annual [[Pazz & Jop]] critics poll, ''…And Justice for All'' was voted the 39th best album of 1988, having received 117 votes, including 12 first-place votes.<ref>{{cite news|title=The 1988 Pazz & Jop Critics Poll|url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/pnj/pjres88.php|newspaper=The Village Voice|location=New York|date=February 28, 1989|accessdate=January 12, 2014}}</ref> The album was ranked at number nine on [[IGN]]'s Top 25 Metal Albums.<ref>{{cite web|title=Top 25 Metal Albums|url=http://uk.ign.com/articles/2007/01/20/top-25-metal-albums?page=5|work=[[IGN]]|accessdate=June 14, 2013}}</ref> In a 2006 reader poll by ''[[Guitar World]]'', ''…And Justice for All'' was placed 12th among the 100 Greatest Guitar Albums.<ref>{{cite journal|title=100 Greatest Guitar Albums|url=http://rateyourmusic.com/list/Boggs1027/guitar_worlds_100_greatest_guitar_albums_of_all_time/4/|journal=[[Guitar World]]|date=October 2006|accessdate=August 21, 2014}}</ref> All of the album's tracks were featured on "The 100 Greatest Metallica Songs of All Time" made by the same magazine.<ref>{{cite journal|author=''Guitar World'' staff|title=The 100 Greatest Metallica Songs of All Time|url=http://www.guitarworld.com/100-greatest-songs-by-metallica|accessdate=June 13, 2013|journal=Guitar World|date=June 7, 2013|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130705174923/http://www.guitarworld.com/100-greatest-songs-by-metallica|archivedate=July 5, 2013|df=mdy-all}}</ref> ''[[Kerrang!]]'' listed the album at number 42 among the "100 Greatest Heavy Metal Albums of All Time".<ref>{{cite journal|last=Rhodes|first=Al|work=[[Kerrang!]]|title=Metallica '…And Justice for All'|volume=222|publisher=Spotlight Publications Ltd.|date=January 21, 1989|location=London, UK}}</ref> Martin Popoff ranks the effort at number 19 in his book ''The Top 500 Heavy Metal Albums of All Time'', the fourth highest ranked Metallica album on the list.<ref name="500 Albums">{{cite book|last=Popoff|first=Martin|title=The Top 500 Heavy Metal Albums of All Time|year=2004|publisher=ECW Press|location=Toronto, Canada|isbn=978-1-55022-600-3|pages=Chapter 19}}</ref> The album is featured in Robert Dimery's ''[[1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die]]''.<ref name="1001albums">{{cite book|title=[[1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die]]|year=2005|editor1-first=Robert|editor1-last=Dimery|editor2-first=Joel|editor2-last=McIver|edition=1st|publisher=Universe Publishing|isbn=978-0-7893-1371-3|page=596}}</ref> In 2017, it was ranked 21st on ''[[Rolling Stone]]''{{'s}} list of "100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time".<ref>{{cite web|last1=Epstein|first1=Dan|title=100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/the-100-greatest-metal-albums-of-all-time-w486923/pantera-far-beyond-driven-1994-w487081|website=[[Rolling Stone]]|publisher=Wenner Media LLC|accessdate=22 June 2017|date=21 June 2017}}</ref>


After years of refusing to release music videos, Metallica released its first for "One".<ref>{{cite web|title=Metallica&nbsp;– "One"|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/pictures/readers-poll-the-10-greatest-videos-of-the-1980s-20131030/8-metallica-one-0777523|work=Rolling Stone|date=October 28, 2013|accessdate=January 5, 2013}}</ref> The video was controversial among fans, who had valued the band's apparent opposition to [[MTV]] and other forms of mainstream music. ''[[Slant Magazine]]'' ranked it number 48 on their list of the "100 Greatest Music Videos", saying that Metallica "evoke a revolution of the soul far more devastating than that presented in the original text".<ref>{{cite journal|last=Cinquemani|first=Sal|title=100 Greatest Music Videos|volume=(No. 50 to No. 40)|work=[[Slant Magazine]]|date=June 30, 2003|location=London, UK}}</ref> The guitar solo was ranked number seven in ''Guitar World'''s compilation of the 100 Greatest Guitar Solos of all time.<ref name=100solos>{{cite journal|title=100 Greatest Guitar Solos|url=http://guitar.about.com/library/bl100greatest.htm|journal=Guitar World|accessdate=April 17, 2011}}</ref> Additionally, heavy metal website [[Noisecreep]] classed the song ninth among the "10 Best '80s Metal Songs".<ref name="Noisecreep">{{cite web |title=10 Best '80s Metal Songs|last=Crawford|first=Allyson B.|work=[[Noisecreep]] |url=http://www.noisecreep.com/2010/01/18/top-10-best-80s-metal-songs/|accessdate=June 9, 2013}}</ref>
After years of refusing to release music videos, Metallica released its first for "One".<ref>{{cite web|title=Metallica&nbsp;– "One"|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/pictures/readers-poll-the-10-greatest-videos-of-the-1980s-20131030/8-metallica-one-0777523|work=Rolling Stone|date=October 28, 2013|accessdate=January 5, 2013}}</ref> The video was controversial among fans, who had valued the band's apparent opposition to [[MTV]] and other forms of mainstream music. ''[[Slant Magazine]]'' ranked it number 48 on their list of the "100 Greatest Music Videos", saying that Metallica "evoke a revolution of the soul far more devastating than that presented in the original text".<ref>{{cite journal|last=Cinquemani|first=Sal|title=100 Greatest Music Videos|volume=(No. 50 to No. 40)|work=[[Slant Magazine]]|date=June 30, 2003|location=London, UK}}</ref> The guitar solo was ranked number seven in ''Guitar World'''s compilation of the 100 Greatest Guitar Solos of all time.<ref name=100solos>{{cite journal|title=100 Greatest Guitar Solos|url=http://guitar.about.com/library/bl100greatest.htm|journal=Guitar World|accessdate=April 17, 2011}}</ref> Additionally, heavy metal website [[Noisecreep]] classed the song ninth among the "10 Best '80s Metal Songs".<ref name="Noisecreep">{{cite web |title=10 Best '80s Metal Songs|last=Crawford|first=Allyson B.|work=[[Noisecreep]] |url=http://www.noisecreep.com/2010/01/18/top-10-best-80s-metal-songs/|accessdate=June 9, 2013}}</ref>

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…And Justice for All
A painting of Justice as a woman with a blindfold and scales
Studio album by
Metallica
ReleasedAugust 25, 1988 (1988-08-25)
RecordedJanuary 28 – May 1, 1988
StudioOne on One Recording Studios in Los Angeles, California
Genre
Length65:29
LabelElektra
Producer
Metallica chronology
Master of Puppets
(1986) 		…And Justice for All
(1988) 		Metallica
(1991)
Singles from ...And Justice for All
  1. "Harvester of Sorrow"
    Released: August 28, 1988[2]
  2. "Eye of the Beholder"
    Released: October 30, 1988[3]
  3. "One"
    Released: January 10, 1989[4]

…And Justice for All is the fourth studio album by American

heavy metal band Metallica, released on August 25, 1988, by Elektra Records. It was the band's first studio album to feature bassist Jason Newsted after the death of Cliff Burton in 1986. …And Justice for All is musically progressive, with long and complex songs, fast tempos, and few verse-chorus structures. The album is noted for its sterile production, which producer Flemming Rasmussen
attributed to his absence during the mixing process. The lyrics feature themes of political and legal injustice seen through the prisms of censorship, war, and nuclear brinkmanship.

The album's front cover, designed by Stephen Gorman on a scheme by James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich, features a representation of Lady Justice, bound by ropes, with two breasts bare and its scales tipping toward one plate filled with money. The phrase "…And Justice for All" appears spray-painted in the lower right corner. The album title is derived from the American Pledge of Allegiance. Three songs from the album were released as singles: "Harvester of Sorrow", "Eye of the Beholder", and "One"; the title track was released as a promotional single.

…And Justice for All was acclaimed by music critics. It was included in The Village Voice's annual Pazz & Jop critics' poll of the year's best albums, and the single "One" earned Metallica its first Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance in 1990. The group's best-selling album at the time, it was the first underground metal album to achieve chart success in the United States. The album was certified 8× platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in 2003 for shipping eight million copies in the US, making it Metallica's second-best-selling album in the country.

Background

…And Justice for All was Metallica's first full-length studio album to feature bassist

Phonogram Records, and Phonogram chairman Martin Hooker was keen to obtain the band's contract. To persuade Metallica to choose his label Hooker offered them a bigger deal, "worth well over £1 million, which at that time was the biggest deal we'd ever offered anyone". His explanation was that the final figure for combined British and European sales of all three Metallica albums was more than 1.5 million copies.[6] The album title was revealed in April 1988: …And Justice for All, after the final words of the Pledge of Allegiance.[7] The artwork was created by Stephen Gorman, based on a concept developed by Hetfield and drummer Lars Ulrich. It depicts a cracked statue of a blindfolded Lady Justice, bound by ropes with her breasts exposed and her scales overflowing with dollar bills. The title appears graffiti-style in the lower right corner.[8]

Production and recording

…And Justice for All was recorded from January to May 1988 at One on One Recording Studios in Los Angeles. Metallica produced the album with Flemming Rasmussen.[8] Rasmussen was initially unavailable for the planned start on January 1, 1988, and the band brought in Mike Clink, who had caught their attention for producing Guns N' Roses' debut Appetite for Destruction (1987). Things did not work out as planned, and three weeks later Rasmussen became available after Ulrich gave him a call. Rasmussen listened to Clink's rough mixes for the album on his February 14 flight to Los Angeles, and upon his arrival Clink was fired. Hetfield explained that recording with Clink did not work out so well, and Rasmussen came over as a last-minute replacement.[9] However, Clink is credited with engineering the drums on two of the album's tracks: "The Shortest Straw" and "Harvester of Sorrow". While waiting for Rasmussen to arrive, the band recorded two cover songs—"Breadfan" and "The Prince"—to "fine‑tune the sound while they got into the studio vibe".[9] Both were released as B-sides of the "Harvester of Sorrow" CD single, as separate B-sides for "Eye of the Beholder" and "One" respectively, and were included on the covers album Garage Inc. (1998).[10]

Rasmussen's first task was to adjust and arrange the guitar sound with which the band was dissatisfied. A guide track for the tempos and a click track for Ulrich's drumming were used. The band played in a live room, recording the instruments separately. Each song used three reels: one for drums, a second for bass and guitars and a third for anything else. Hetfield wrote lyrics during the recording sessions; these were occasionally unfinished as recording began, and Rasmussen said that Hetfield "wasn't really interested in singing" but instead "wanted that hard vibe".[9] Metallica's recording process was new to Jason Newsted, who questioned his impact on the overall sound and the lack of discussion with the rest of the team. Newsted had a different experience with his previous band, Flotsam and Jetsam, describing their style as "basically everybody playing the same thing like a sonic wall".[11] He recorded his parts separately from the rest of the band, with only the assistant engineer present. Newsted noted that his parts were at the same audio frequency as Hetfield's guitar parts, and this created a "[battle] for the same frequency".[11] Steve Thompson, who mixed the album, claims that Ulrich was squarely to blame for the inaudible bass and unusual drums. Thompson wanted to be relieved of his mixing duties when Ulrich presented his ideas on the production, but Thompson was not allowed to leave and received the majority of the criticism for the misrepresentation of bass of the record.[12]

Music

We took the Ride the Lightning and Master of Puppets concept as far as we could take it. There was no place else to go with the progressive, nutty, sideways side of Metallica, and I'm so proud of the fact that, in some way, that album is kind of the epitome of that progressive side of us up through the '80s.

—Lars Ulrich, on the band's direction for the album[13]

This is completely sublimated rock, on a quest for a purity of form, light years beyond raunch or blues rock. Metallica turn heavy metal's melodrama into algebra. This isn't thrash, but thresh: mechanized mayhem. There's no blur, no mess, not even at peak velocity, but a rigorous grid of incisions and contusions.

—Simon Reynolds, on the album's music[14]

…And Justice for All is a musically progressive album featuring long and complex songs,[15] fast tempos and few verse-chorus structures.[16] Metallica decided to broaden its sonic range, writing songs with multiple sections, heavy guitar arpeggios and unusual time signatures.[17] Hetfield later explained: "Songwriting-wise, [the album] was just us really showing off and trying to show what we could do. 'We've jammed six riffs into one song? Let's make it eight. Let's go crazy with it.'"[13] Music critic Simon Reynolds noted the riff changes and experimentation with timing on the album's epically constructed songs: "The tempo shifts, gear changes, lapses, decelerations and abrupt halts".[14] BBC Music's Eamonn Stack wrote that …And Justice for All sounds different from the band's previous albums, with longer songs, sparser arrangements, and harsher vocals by Hetfield.[18] According to journalist Martin Popoff, the album was less melodic than its predecessors because of its frequent tempo changes, unusual song structures and layered guitars. He argued that the album is more of a progressive metal record because of its intricately performed music and bleak sound.[19] Music writer Joel McIver called the album's music aggressive enough for Metallica to maintain its place with bands "at the mellower end of extreme metal".[20] According to writer Christopher Knowles, Metallica took "the thrash concept to its logical conclusion" on the album.[21]

The album was noted for its "dry, sterile" production.

close microphones on the mix and none of the room microphones, thus causing the "clicking", thin drum sound.[9] Popoff noted that because of the strange production, the bass guitar was nearly inaudible, while the guitars sounded "strangled mechanistic".[23] He saw the "synthetic" percussion as another reason for the album's compressed sound.[24] The sound has nearly-inaudible bass guitar, which Rasmussen claims was ordered by Hetfield and Ulrich after hearing the initial mixes, resulting in his belief that "Jason Newsted, [engineer] Toby Wright and I are probably the only people who know what the bass parts actually sounded like on that album".[9] Thompson similarly blamed Ulrich for the inaudible bass, stating that Ulrich ordered him to remove the bass from the mix.[12] In their defense, Hetfield and Ulrich said that most of Newsted's bass lines closely followed the rhythm guitar lines to the point of being indiscernible from each other.[25] A lack of direction is also partly to blame; since the album was largely produced by the band, there was no one present in the studio to guide the band's new bassist and tell him what was expected of him, something a producer would typically do.[26] Newsted was not satisfied with the final mixes: "The Justice album wasn't something that really felt good for me, because you really can't hear the bass."[9]

Lyrics

"…And Justice for All"
The title track is based on an aggressive riff and a drum pattern by Ulrich.[20]
"One"
"One" was inspired by the novel
overdubbed guitars, which eventually convert to powerful riffing.[27]
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The lyrical content of …And Justice for All is conceptually unified around notions of political and legal injustice as seen through the prism of war, censored speech, and nuclear brinksmanship.

the establishment.[20] Ulrich described the songwriting process as their "CNN years", with him and Hetfield watching the channel in search for song subjects—"I'd read about the blacklisting thing, we'd get a title, 'The Shortest Straw,' and a song would come out of that."[30]

Concerns about the environmental plight of the planet ("Blackened"), corruption ("…And Justice for All"), and blacklisting and discrimination ("The Shortest Straw") are emphasized with traditional

existential themes.[28] Issues such as freedom of speech and civil liberties are presented from a grim and pessimistic point of view.[31] "One" was unofficially entitled "antiwar anthem" because of the lyrics which portray the suffering of a wounded soldier.[32] "Dyers Eve" is a lyrical rant from Hetfield to his parents.[20] Burton received co-writing credit on "To Live Is to Die" as the bass line was a medley of unused recordings Burton had performed prior to his death. Because the original recordings are not used on the track, the composition is credited as written by Burton and played by Newsted. The spoken word section of the song ("When a man lies, he murders some part of the world. These are the pale deaths which men miscall their lives.") was written by German poet Paul Gerhardt, but was erroneously attributed to Burton in the liner notes. The second half of the speech ("All this I cannot bear to witness any longer. Cannot the kingdom of salvation take me home?") was written by Burton.[26]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Q
[36]
Rock Hard9.5/10[37]
Rolling Stone[16]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[38]
Sputnikmusic2/5[39]
The Village VoiceC+[40]

Released on August 25, 1988, by

Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance, but with much controversy, it lost to Jethro Tull's Crest of a Knave. In 2007, Entertainment Weekly, named the win one of the 10 biggest upsets in Grammy history.[44]

In a retrospective review,

Encyclopedia of Popular Music (2006), wrote that, apart from the praiseworthy "One", the album diminished the band's creativity by concentrating the songs with too many riffs.[34] Ulrich said in retrospect that the album has improved with time and it is well-liked among their contemporaries.[13]

Accolades

In The Village Voice's annual Pazz & Jop critics poll, …And Justice for All was voted the 39th best album of 1988, having received 117 votes, including 12 first-place votes.[45] The album was ranked at number nine on IGN's Top 25 Metal Albums.[46] In a 2006 reader poll by Guitar World, …And Justice for All was placed 12th among the 100 Greatest Guitar Albums.[47] All of the album's tracks were featured on "The 100 Greatest Metallica Songs of All Time" made by the same magazine.[48] Kerrang! listed the album at number 42 among the "100 Greatest Heavy Metal Albums of All Time".[49] Martin Popoff ranks the effort at number 19 in his book The Top 500 Heavy Metal Albums of All Time, the fourth highest ranked Metallica album on the list.[23] The album is featured in Robert Dimery's 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.[50] In 2017, it was ranked 21st on Rolling Stone's list of "100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time".[51]

After years of refusing to release music videos, Metallica released its first for "One".[52] The video was controversial among fans, who had valued the band's apparent opposition to MTV and other forms of mainstream music. Slant Magazine ranked it number 48 on their list of the "100 Greatest Music Videos", saying that Metallica "evoke a revolution of the soul far more devastating than that presented in the original text".[53] The guitar solo was ranked number seven in Guitar World's compilation of the 100 Greatest Guitar Solos of all time.[54] Additionally, heavy metal website Noisecreep classed the song ninth among the "10 Best '80s Metal Songs".[55]

Commercial performance

Although Metallica's music was considered unappealing for mainstream radio, …And Justice for All became the first underground metal album to achieve chart success in the US.

Nielsen SoundScan began tracking sales, …And Justice for All has sold 5,330,000 copies in the United States.[59] It was certified platinum nine weeks after it was released in stores, and sold 1.7 million copies in the US by the end of 1988.[13][31] Since its release, the album has scanned more than 8 million copies in the US and, according to MTV's Chris Harris, "helped cement [Metallica's] status as a rock and roll force to be reckoned with".[13] Classic Rock explained that with this album, Metallica received substantial media exposure,[27] becoming a multi-platinum act by 1990.[60] The group broke through on radio in early 1989 with "One", which was released as the third single from the record.[61] According to Billboard, …And Justice for All found the band evolving into arena headliners, as "One", accompanied by the group's first music video, garnered significant airplay.[60]

…And Justice for All achieved similar chart success outside the United States. It peaked within the top 5 on the charts in

IFPI Finland for having a shipment of little over 50,000 copies, and was certified gold by the Bundesverband Musikindustrie (BVMI) for shipments of 250,000 copies.[64][65][66] It was awarded gold by the British Phonographic Industry in 2013 for shipping 100,000 copies in the UK.[67] …And Justice for All was surpassed commercially by the band's following album, Metallica (1991).[68]

Live performances

Metallica onstage during the Damaged Justice Tour, 1989

Guitarist

Damaged Justice Tour
.

Metallica played the title track in the opening show of the

The Forum in Inglewood, California.[76]

Track listing

All lyrics are written by James Hetfield, except "To Live Is to Die" written by Cliff Burton

No.TitleMusicLength
1."Blackened"Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Jason Newsted6:40
2."…And Justice for All"Hetfield, Ulrich, Kirk Hammett9:44
3."Eye of the Beholder"Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammett6:25
4."One"Hetfield, Ulrich7:24
5."The Shortest Straw"Hetfield, Ulrich6:35
6."Harvester of Sorrow"Hetfield, Ulrich5:42
7."The Frayed Ends of Sanity"Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammett7:40
8."To Live Is to Die"Hetfield, Ulrich, Burton9:48
9."Dyers Eve"Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammett5:12
Total length:65:17
Japanese bonus track
Brian Tatler
4:26
Total length:69:43
Digital reissue bonus tracks[78]
No.TitleLength
10."One" (Live in Seattle 1989)7:59
11."…And Justice for All" (Live in Seattle 1989)10:05
Total length:83:38

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.[8]

Metallica

Production

Artwork

  • Stephen Gorman – cover art
  • Ross Halfin – photography
  • illustrations
  • Reiner Design Consultants, Inc. – design, layout

Charts

Chart (1988) Peak
position
Australian Albums Chart[62]
 16
Austrian Albums Chart[62]
 12
Canadian Albums Chart[79] 13
Dutch Albums Chart[62]
 19
Finnish Albums Chart[62]
 8
French Albums Chart[62]
 130
German Albums Chart[62]
 5
Italian Albums Chart[80]
 19
Mexican Albums Chart[62]
 92
New Zealand Albums Chart[62]
 36
Norwegian Albums Chart[62]
 8
Spanish Albums Chart[81]
 8
Swedish Albums Chart[62]
 5
Swiss Albums Chart[62]
 7
UK Albums Chart[63] 4
US Billboard 200[58] 6

Certifications

Region Certification Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada)[64] 3× Platinum 300,000^
Finland (Musiikkituottajat)[65] Platinum 99,891[82]
Germany (BVMI)[66] Platinum 500,000^
United Kingdom (BPI)[67] Platinum 300,000‡
United States (RIAA)[83] 8× Platinum 8,000,000^

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

References

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  2. ^ "Harvester of Sorrow release date". Metallica.com. Archived from the original on August 20, 2011. Retrieved August 15, 2011. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  3. ^ "Eye of the Beholder release date". Metallica.com. Archived from the original on January 17, 2013. Retrieved August 15, 2011. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  4. ^ "One release date". Metallica.com. Archived from the original on August 5, 2011. Retrieved August 15, 2011. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
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    ISBN 978-1-4091-1296-9
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  8. ^ a b c …And Justice for All liner notes. Vertigo Records. 1988.
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