Reception

 
The album was the best selling Metallica record upon its release. Metallica released four singles, "Eye of the Beholder", "Harvester of Sorrow", "…And Justice for All" and "One".

...And Justice for All was Metallica's breakthrough album and reached #6 in the Billboard charts.[10] Though it would soon be over-shadowed commercially by the band's following album (1991's Metallica), this album nevertheless confirmed Metallica's large-scale arena status.

The album was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance in 1989, but with much controversy, it lost to Jethro Tull's Crest of a Knave. In 2007, the win was named one of the 10 biggest upsets in Grammy history by Entertainment Weekly.[11]

In 1990, "One" received the first-ever Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance, Metallica's first Grammy Award.[12] The guitar solo of "One" was ranked #7 in Guitar World's compilation of the 100 Greatest Guitar Solos of all time.

The album was ranked at number nine in IGN's Top 25 Metal Albums.[13] The album is featured in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.

Metallica released their first music video for "One," after years of resisting pressure to release videos for their tracks[14]. The video incited controversy among their fans, who had valued the band's apparent opposition to MTV and other forms of mainstream commercial metal.