10 Perfect Songs That Had To Wait Years To Become Hits

You can practically feel a shift in the metal community the minute that Metallica dropped the Black Album in 1991. Although the idea of the thrash legends toying with their sound may have been interesting, fans could not get down with their speed metal gods going soft, playing songs that were a lot slower and mellow like Nothing Else Matters. If everything was kept at the same speed though, chances are we would get a song like Sad But True that sounded much worse than what they came in with.

Originally writing the riff at the time of Master of Puppets, Lars Ulrich and James Hetfield kept toying with the groove and never really making it click, thinking that the song sounded so happy when they tried to play it straight. Once Bob Rock entered the picture though, he suggested to slow the song down a lot more, having a groove much closer to Black Sabbath than Iron Maiden and making the song flow a lot better by the end.

For all of the bile that gets thrown Bob Rock's way for the commercial sound of the record, he should also get credit for the raw heaviness of this song, suggesting that the band tune the song down to make it sound just a little bit more heavy, which made for a mountain of guitars hitting you in the face right out of the gate. There are still millions of Metallica fans who like to imagine a world where Bob Rock never entered the studio, but every one of those fans owes that man a beer for giving us one of the heaviest songs in their catalog as well.