"Whether as maximalist showmen or hard-nosed businessmen, Metallica have little interest in half-measures. Which might explain why this costly, bloated, deluxe 30th-anniversary box set includes 14 CDs, six slabs of vinyl, six DVDs, a 120-page photo-book and tons of souvenir gubbins ... Has any rock masterpiece in history ever merited this kind of explosively incontinent Wikileaks information dump? Of course not. But does Metallica - aka the Black Album - still sound like a sky-punching, riff-crunching, firebreathing, game-changing landmark in heavy music? Fuck yeah!".