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The Metallica Black Box Museum: The First 40 Years

Events that shaped a 40-year strong career.

The Metallica Black Box Museum: The Black Album

A retrospective celebrating the album's 30th Anniversary.

Gig Posters, Promo Fliers, and Limited Edition Variants. Papercuts Not Included.

Interviews, photographs, and artifacts honoring Cliff Burton’s enduring legacy.

The Metallica Black Box Museum: 20 Years of Anger

A retrospective celebrating St. Anger’s 20th Anniversary.

The Metallica Black Box Museum: Art of Metallica

An exhibit of art created by, for, and about the band.

Events that shaped a 40-year strong career.

A retrospective celebrating the album's 30th Anniversary.

Gig Posters, Promo Fliers, and Limited Edition Variants. Papercuts Not Included.

Interviews, photographs, and artifacts honoring Cliff Burton’s enduring legacy.

A retrospective celebrating St. Anger’s 20th Anniversary.

An exhibit of art created by, for, and about the band.

Events that shaped a 40-year strong career.

A retrospective celebrating the album's 30th Anniversary.

The Metallica Black Box

Exclusive to Fifth Members, this digital museum is home to memorabilia ranging from personal band member collections to fan contributions and everything in between.

When you’ve been making music as a band of brothers for the better part of a century, you accumulate more content than is physically possible to share with the world. While digging through this literal and metaphoric vault, we were drawn to open the doors and let some artifacts see the light of day.

You’ll see some familiar content, which helps us paint a full picture. But the hidden gems you’ll uncover are why we launched this multimedia library in the first place.

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Unseen Photos

Unreleased and rarely seen photos from our personal collections.
Unearthed Video

Rare footage, including live clips, exclusive interviews, and behind-the-scenes content.
Unheard Audio

Clips from the studio, from the road, and from interviews.
Untold Stories

From our perspective and from those who were there with us from the start.
Personal Artifacts

Old ticket stubs, letters, faxes, ideas scribbled on that old hotel pad of paper, and beyond.
Exclusive Merch

Limited edition prints and posters, commemorative plaques, and recreated classic merch.

The Unframed Feeling

Celebrating the visual medium that has become inextricably linked to the music industry: posters. Papercuts not included.

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Orion: A Tribute to Cliff Burton

Though Cliff’s time with Metallica was brief, his impact and influence remain monumental through his music, our memories, and stories.

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20 Years of Anger

Whether you love or hate it, there’s no denying that St. Anger is a snapshot of a distinct moment in time. Full of raw emotions, it proved to be a turning point from uncertainty to revitalization.

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Art of Metallica

“To see your musical vision turn into something else, a totally different sort of vision - it’s amazing. How other people interpret it and visualize it is completely mind-blowing.” - Kirk Hammett

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The First 40 Years

From meeting via a want-ad in The Recyler to two sold-out nights at San Francisco’s Chase Center, with shows on all seven continents and so much more in between.

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The Black Album

The landmark self-titled album that launched Metallica into the international consciousness and has since become one of the best-selling albums of all time.

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