Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It was the album that confirmed a once unthinkable dynamic: metal was, even if only for a moment, the biggest genre in the world.

"Don’t judge a book by its cover," they say. But what about an album? If you saw Limp Bizkit’s Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water in the racks of your favorite record store, would you ...