METALLICA Birth School Metallica Death - Volume I (2013 UK 384-page hardback book by Paul Brannigan & Ian Winwood. Metallica have sold in excess of 100 million albums and won seven Grammys. Their journey from scuzzy Los Angeles garages to thestages of the world's biggest stadia has been an epic and often traumatic one, and one of the few truly great rock 'n' roll sagas. Volume I takes us from the band's inception through to the recording and eve of release of their 1991 seminal, self-titled 'Black' album)