Claude says:Metallica released this double album in late 1998 as a collection of covers — disc one with fresh studio takes on influences ranging from '70s Black Sabbath to hardcore punk, disc two gathering older B-sides and their entire Garage Days Re-Revisited EP. The band knocked out the new material in three weeks with Bob Rock, framing it as a palate cleanser after the weighty trilogy of the Black Album, Load, and Reload. You gave it one spin in November 2022, landing on "Whiskey in the Jar" — their Thin Lizzy cover that became a single — but never circled back.