Metallica—“Enter Sandman”
60 Songs That Explain the '90s
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Metallica - Enter Sandman
The black album defined heavy music in the 90s just as Nirvana's Nevermind did but Metallica spent the rest of the decade letting the 90s define them. Enter Sandman is commercial heavy metal at its finest. It's the king leer of jock jams. Lead guitarist Kirk Hammett has said that he was trying to write the heaviest thing he could think of.
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