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The album's striking cover ? a photograph by Brooklyn-born artist Andres Serrano created by mixing the artist's own semen and bovine blood between two sheets of Plexiglas ? was intended to evoke the idea of rebirth, but for many old-school Metallica fans, the band they had grown up with was now dead.

It was certified 3× platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for shipping three million copies in the United States. Garage Inc.

Ride the Lightning sold more than six million copies and featured songs ranging from four to nine minutes long. The album peaked at No. 100 on Billboard's Top 200 list and features tracks such as ?For Whom the Bell Tolls,? ?Creeping Death,? and their first power ballad, ?Fade to Black.?

Hammett continued playing rhythm until Death Magnetic when Hetfield once again played all the rhythm parts. At 79 minutes, Load is Metallica's longest studio album. With the CD length at , initial pressings of the album were affixed with stickers boasting of its long playtime, simply reading "".

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Since then, all their studio albums beginning with 1991's self-titled LP (aka ?The Black Album?) had premiered at the top spot, until now. Metallica can take solace in the fact that 72 Seasons is No. 1 on the Top Album Sales chart, with 134,000 of its 146,000 equivalent units coming in the form of pure album sales.

Singles CSPC results 1991 ? Metallica ? Nothing Else Matters [Metallica] ? 14,620,000. 1991 ? Metallica ? Enter Sandman [Metallica] ? 14,510,000. 1988 ? Metallica ? One [? ... 1986 ? Metallica ? Master Of Puppets [Master Of Puppets] ? 9,170,000. 1991 ? Metallica ? The Unforgiven [Metallica] ? 5,600,000.

Metallica has sold more than 125 million albums worldwide, with over 67 million records in the United States alone (56.3 million albums since 1991 when SoundScan started tracking actual sales figures).