| Nothing Else Matters | 4:40 | |
| Battery (Re-Filtered By Filter Section) | 4:59 | |
| The Thing That Should Not Be (Back In Black Mix) | 5:00 | |
| For Whom The Bell Tolls | 4:40 | |
| Master Of Puppets | 5:00 | |
| Damage Inc. | 4:07 | |
| Whiplash | 2:39 | |
| Wherever I May Roam | 4:24 | |
| Nothing Else Matters (Elemental Mix) | 3:41 | |
| The Thing That Should Not Be | 4:58 | |
| Seek And Destroy | 4:58 | |
| Sad But True | 4:57 | |
| Battery (High Voltage Mix) | 4:49 |
| Title, Format | Label | Cat# | Country | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Blackest Album / An Industrial Tribute To Metallica - Volume 1 (CD) | Cleopatra | CLP 0323-2 | US | 1998 | |
| The Blackest Album / An Industrial Tribute To Metallica - Volume 1 (CD) | Eagle Records | EAGCD065 | UK | 1998 | |
| The Blackest Album / An Industrial Tribute To Metallica (CD, Comp) | Eagle Records | 8573805972 | Australia | 1998 | |
| The Blackest Album / An Industrial Tribute To Metallica (CD, RE, A5 ) | Sony Music Entertainment (Czech Republic) | 8869745570215 | Czech Republic | 2009 |
referencing The Blackest Album / An Industrial Tribute To Metallica - Volume 1, CD, CLP 0323-2
Ever since Die Krupps released the first industrial "Tribute To Metallica", we've seen a steady stream in "The Blackest Album" series (I think they're up to 4 now).
Releases like this are generally pot luck. Many of the interpretations are atrocious. Some are interesting. A few more are just weird. A sekect few are decent or better. This one had all sorts. There's an absurdly minimalist bleepy version of Battery (La Honda Militia). There's a strangely poppy and almost orchestral interpretation of Nothing Else Matters (Apoptygma Berzerk). There's a ridiculously heavy and dark version of Master Of Puppets (Hellsau) - and there's a whole bunch of fillers to pad out the rest. Every track is fundamentally different, the one common factor of course being that they're all Metallica covers/interpretations.
Very hit and miss. But it was just enough to get me over the line and open my mind to industrial - so it can't be all bad.