Metallica rock NYC: concert pics

Metallica

Since debuting 25 years ago, Metallica has released a handful of landmark thrash albums, and 1991’s ubiquitous “Black Album” cemented the group’s status as one of the biggest bands in the world. Since then though, the band's star was in steady decline; they still drew utterly massive crowds, but several albums tanked and the riveting 2004 documentary “Some Kind of Monster” found the metal gods doing decidedly un-metal things like selling fine art and airing age-old resentments in therapy sessions. This all changed with last year’s epic comeback “Death Magnetic,” a Rick Rubin-steered classic that saw the world's second most-famous band return to form.