In what year was the band behind the Evil Empire Tour nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rock Album?
Evil Empire Tour The Evil Empire Tour is a concert tour by Rage Against the Machine to support their second studio album "Evil Empire". The tour started on January 12, 1996 and finished on September 21, 1997. After completing the tour, the band went back into the studio for most of 1998 to write and record their third studio album "The Battle of Los Angeles".
Metallica (album) Metallica (commonly known as The Black Album) is the fifth studio album by American heavy metal band Metallica. Released on August 12, 1991 by Elektra Records, it received widespread critical acclaim and became the band's best-selling album. "Metallica" produced five singles that are considered to be among the band's best-known songs, which include "Enter Sandman", "The Unforgiven", "Nothing Else Matters", "Wherever I May Roam", and "Sad but True". "Don't Tread on Me" was also issued to rock radio shortly after the album's release, but the song did not receive a commercial single release. The album marked a change in the band's sound from the thrash metal style of the previous four albums to a slower one. Metallica promoted the album with a series of tours. In 2003, the album was ranked number 252 on "Rolling Stone"' s 500 greatest albums of all time.