Black was the turning point from Thrash to main stream metal and at the time, me included, didn't know what to think of it. Coming off the most clinical album they ever made, "and justice for all..., " was gonna be a hard act to follow if they were gonna carry on doing Thrash metal. I thought then that they were sold out to the commercial world, little I known that the Black album would become one of the most succesful metal album of all time.