Metallica plays music.
Metallica . Metallica earned a growing fan base in the underground music community and won critical acclaim with its first four albums ; their third album Master of Puppets ( 1986 ) was described as one of the most influential and heaviest of thrash metal albums . Metallica ranks as one of the most commercially successful bands of all time , having sold over 110 million records worldwide . Metallica ( commonly known as The Black Album ) is the fifth studio album by American heavy metal band Metallica .