"Many fans of Metallica insist that they released nothing after that bus crash. Others say that their recording career ended immediately before the Black Album, or immediately after it. The tiny fraction of fans left insist that they went on to make three more albums after this, but when faced with a copy of St. Anger, go into violent conniptions."
-tvtropes.org
In actual fact, of course, their studio burnt down during the recording of the Black Album, along with all the notes they'd taken about which songs to leave off. A studio exec somewhere left the last three songs on the album despite the fact that they were clearly slated for deletion. Lost in the fire was a glorious three-minute solo in 6/8 time that would have appeared on "Nothing Else Matters." In recognition of what they lost, Metallica never entered the studio again, except briefly in 2006-07 to record no more than three songs.
And just in case it's not obviously clear, nothing said above is true.
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