OT: Is Metallica’s “Black Album” a good album?

There has probably never been an album by a major band that has made me angrier than the “Black Album” except maybe it’s predecessor “And Justice For All”, albeit for entirely different reasons. AJFA is a fantastic album pretty much start to finish with one major caveat - it is the worst sounding album by a major label artist that I’ve ever heard. Perhaps there were other ways to haze the new guy rather than essentially removing all traces of him during production. Perhaps they could have made Lars sound less like a wind-up cymbal monkey. But ok, fine, it is what it is. So they hire a real producer and put out the Black Album. The opening track, while stylistically different than anything that came before it, is a perfect hard rock song. And everything else on the album? Utter crap, a complete slap in the face to their first three legendary metal albums. I’ve been told that it brought metal into the mainstream. Possibly, but not good metal. I mean unless you count shit like Papa Roach and Puddle of Mudd good. So what say you, is it a metal masterpiece, lazy garbage, or somewhere in between?

I need sports back, I’m debating the merits of a 20 year old album.