A 'Brand New Man', 35 Years Later: Brooks & Dunn's Debut Comes to Vinyl
The album’s 12 songs made Metallica stadium headliners and helped drive more than 30 million copies in fans’ collections, the band said.
- Today, August 13, 2026, marks exactly 35 years since Metallica released its self-titled record, the Black Album, now owned by upwards of 30 million fans worldwide.
- The album transformed Metallica from thrash metal stars of And Justice For All into stadium-cramming immortals, a shift James Hetfield reflected on in the book All The Songs by Clerc.
- Jason Newsted enhanced tracks like Wherever using a 12-string Hamer Mandocello, blending Eastern sounds with metal grooves; the bassist later told Billboard the band encouraged such contributions.
- The album achieved number one status in nine different countries and earned 16 times Platinum certification in the US, cementing its commercial dominance.
- Seismic riffs from the Black Album continue pumping up fans in sports arenas more than 30 years later, with even deep cuts like The Struggle Within reflecting the band's enduring creative legacy.
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A 'Brand New Man', 35 years later: Brooks & Dunn's debut comes to vinyl
Nearly four decades after its release, the debut album by Brooks & Dunn will finally be pressed on vinyl. "When we released Brand New Man, we were two songwriters trying to make the best record we could and hoping people would connect with it," Kix Brooks says. "To see those songs still finding their way to new fans 35 years later is something we never could have imagined. Getting to finally put this album on vinyl and celebrate where it all sta…
Metallica's self-titled album arrived at the stores on August 12, 1991 and changed forever the commercial dimension of a band that had previously reigned in thrash metal territory
A ‘Brand New Man’, 35 years later: Brooks & Dunn’s debut comes to vinyl – 98.9 THE BULL
Nearly four decades after its release, the debut album by Brooks & Dunn will finally be pressed on vinyl. “When we released Brand New Man, we were two songwriters trying to make the best record we could and hoping people would connect with it,” Kix Brooks says. “To see those songs still finding their way to new fans 35 years later is something we never could have imagined. Getting to finally put this album on vinyl and celebrate where it all st…
Metallica closed the 80s as the thrash metal band reigning in the world of rock and metal. But far from being content with falling asleep in the laurels, they forged a different path for their fifth album. And they shot at an incredible new level of success in mainstream Sessions for the new studio work began in the fall of 1990, with producer Bob Rock, whose previous credits included Mötley Crüe's number one success, "Dr. Feelgood", behind the …
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