Into The Black Av Ian Winwood, Paul Brannigan

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