The Making of Metallica's Metallica

by Mick Wall, Malcolm Dome

Details the history of the album known variously to fans as "Metallica," "Untitled," or simply "The Black Album," and the role it played in launching Metallica into superstardom.

72 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1996

About the author

Mick Wall is an author, journalist, film, television and radio writer-producer, who’s worked inside the music industry for over 35 years. He began his career contributing to the music weekly Sounds in 1977, where he wrote about punk and the new wave, and then rockabilly, funk, New Romantic pop and, eventually, hard rock and heavy metal. By 1983, Wall become one of the main journalists in the early days of Kerrang! magazine, where he was their star cover story writer for the next nine years. He subsequently became the founding editor of Classic Rock magazine in 1998, and presented his own television and radio shows.