Metallica released their self-titled record – best known as The Black Album – in 1991. The studio album included a number of influential and memorable singles​, and ultimately sold more than 16 million copies in the US alone​. Not only did it include Enter Sandman and Nothing Else Matters, it also has Ulrich’s favourite song to this day.

Ulrich revealed in an interview last year that his favourite Metallica song of all time is Sad But True.

He revealed why, saying: “I just love playing that song. I play it a little differently each time.

“I love the tempo and giving it a different interpretation every time I play it.” (Via GQ)

Sad But True was released as The Black Album’s fifth and final single in 1993.

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Sad But True reached number one in Finland, but number 15 in the USA and number 20 in the UK.

The track also went platinum in Australia the same year.

A year earlier, in 1992, Metallica released a music video for Sad But True.

The video showed the band playing the song live to an enormous crowd.

It is quite surprising that Ulrich’s favourite song is Sad But True considering how successful the other singles from the same album are.

Enter Sandman is perhaps the band’s most recognisable song of all time, and has some incredible statistics to back it up.

The track reached number five in the singles charts in the UK and number ten in the US charts.

It later went 5x platinum in Australia, as well as reaching platinum status in the US, UK and Italy.

In the US alone Enter Sandman has sold more than 3 million copies.

Worldwide, it has sold more than 30 million copies.

Ulrich revealed in another interview the song he deemed “the geekiest” for drummers.

He explained: “It’s gotta be around Puppets or Justice. At that time, I was really into experimentation, and I was really into colouring the sound with crazy drum patterns, crazy drum fills, and crazy-weird time signatures, and all kinds of super-sideways stuff.” (Via Vulture)

Ulrich went on: “I guess the geekiest of those songs would probably be something like And Justice for All, a song like Blackened or The Frayed Ends of Sanity.”

He added: “The two most underrated drummers in rock, to me, are the Rolling Stones’ Charlie Watts and AC/DC’s Phil Rudd.

“The amount of swing and bounce that each of them contributes to how you hear a Rolling Stones and an AC/DC song is completely unappreciated and unrecognised.”

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