Into the Black

From the record-breaking success of 1991's 'Black Album' to the band's reinvention with the Load/Reload. albums; from bassist Jason Newsted's shock departure to the group's subsequent meltdown as laid bare in the documentary Some Kind of Monster. ; from the Lulu. album with Lou Reed to their hugely expensive feature film Through the Never. , the second half of the Metallica story has been as eventful and controversial as it has triumphant.