Metallica 40th anniversary 1981-2021 thank you for the memories shirt

Metallica earned a growing fan base in the underground music community and won critical acclaim with its first five albums. The band’s third album, Master of Puppets 1986, was described as one of the heaviest and most influential thrash metal albums. Its eponymous fifth album, Metallica 1991, the band’s first to root predominantly in heavy metal, appealed to a more mainstream audience, achieving substantial commercial success and selling over 16 million copies in the United States to date, making it the best-selling album of the SoundScan era.