Metallica have launched a new website called The Metallica Black Box that they say “will offer an ongoing deep dive into every era of [their] career from the early ’80s garage days up to today and beyond.”
According to the band’s introduction to it, MetallicaBlackBox.com will act as an online museum where the members’ “keepsakes, photographs, articles of clothing, sketches and more” that they’ve been stashing away in “attics, garages, and storage spaces” can be displayed.
They say they’re now in the process of officially “unboxing” their collections and pulling their “favorite, most significant, and personally meaningful artifacts.”
The site is debuting with The Black Album Exhibition, which they plan to continually add artifacts to through the end of this year. They say that next year will feature new exhibits, including a 40-year retrospective and a showcase of the creations of the graphic artists they’ve worked with over the years.
Like most — if not all — museums around the world, there is also a museum store. Known as Black Box Shop, it features:
- tickets to livestreams of 10 rare shows from Metallica’s 1991 through ’93 tour behind The Black Album
- a photo collection
- commemorative plaques
- limited edition art prints and
- tour poster reproductions.
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