The Black Box offers an ongoing deep dive into the band’s legacy
Metallica has announced the opening of The Metallica Black Box. Debuting with The Black Album Exhibition, the Black Box will offer an unprecedented and ongoing deep dive into every era of Metallica from the early 80s garage days up to its present status as multi-platinum, stadium-filling hard rock standard bearers.
“We’ve been incredibly fortunate to travel to all corners of the planet, meet so many amazing people, and do things we once only dreamed of. And when you’ve been around for 40 years, you manage to collect a few things!” the band shares. “Along the way, the four of us have hung on to many keepsakes, photographs, articles of clothing, sketches, and so much more, stashing these items away in attics, garages, and storage spaces. But no more as we’re excited to launch The Metallica Black Box!”
James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett and Robert Trujillo will “unbox” their collections, pulling their favorite, most significant, and personally meaningful artifacts out of careful storage. Much more than a “gateway” to all things Metallica, The Metallica Black Box, in collaboration with Inveniem and Definitive Authentic, will provide access to the memories and experiences of the band members themselves, as it transports those who enter to virtually every imaginable time and place along the Metallica historical continuum. Features available exclusively in the Black Box will range from the virtual to the physical including weekly livestream events and extremely limited signed memorabilia.
Years in the making, the Metallica Black Box launches with The Black Album Exhibition, featuring a collection of items curated to share in support of the 30th anniversary of the GRAMMY-winning, 16x platinum-certified 1991 album that not only gave Metallica its first No. 1 album in no fewer than 10 countries, including a four week run at No. 1 in the US, but remains unchallenged as the best-selling album in the history of Nielsen Soundscan, outselling every release in every genre over the past 30 years.
From 1991 through 1993, Metallica toured the world in support of The Black Album. The Black Box will be presenting ten rare shows from this period, hand-selected by Spider Dan. The first three shows and an encore performance are available to pre-order.
The Metallica Black Box will venture progressively deeper into the Metallica vaults. Additional artifacts will be released before year’s end with new exhibits in 2022 that include a 40 year retrospective and a showcase of the graphic artists they’ve worked with over the years.
