Первый альбом Metallica. Первоначально вышел на Megaforce. Владельцу магазин пластинок Jon Zazula действительно понравилась эта свежая молодая группа и они попытались получить контракт. Когда это не удалось, он нашел his own record label, Megaforce, and signs Metallica as his first band. рабочее название этого альбома было "Metal up your ass", но as the record distributors не хотели выпускать альбом с таким названием, they called it Kill 'em all, which means Kill all the record distributors. Альбом был записан в мае 1983 и had its top position at #120 on Billboard в феврале 1988. Коллекционеры ищут двойной LP set with gatefold sleeve, и ограниченное издание с двумя бонус-треками.

TRACKS:
Hit The Lights, The Four Horsemen, Motorbreath, Jump In The Fire, (Anesthesia)-Pulling teeth, Whiplash, Phantom Lord, No Remorse, Seek & Destroy, Metal Militia

VINYL

CD's

PROMOS CD

PROMOS - Vinyl

PICTURE DISCS Vinyl

В феврале 1984 Metallica впервые посетили Европу. They went on a tour supporting Venom. During this trip, the British label, Music for Nations, released the 'Jump in the Fire' EP to promote the tour. Концертный трек был записан в студии и они сверху добавили шум толпы создающий ощущение концертной записи. Jump in the fire изначально вышел в Европе.

TRACKS:
Side A: Jump In The Fire,, Side2: Seek And Destroy (Live), Phantom Lord (Live)

PICTURE DISC

CD SINGLE

CASSETTE

PROMO 12" Vinyl:

TEST PRESSING:

Макси сингл вышел только в США. On the numbered discs, note that some have the number on the record, some have the number on a sticker on the sleeve. It is possible to get a copy with out a number because the original sleeve is not with the record.

TRACKS:
Side A: Jump In The Fire, Whiplash (Special Neckbrace remix), Side2: Seek And Destroy, Phantom Lord

12" MAXI SINGLE Vinyl:

PICTURE DISC Vinyl:

CASSETTE :

Most of the material on this album is written in October, November and December 83, and it was released in the US by Megaforce 27 July 84. Collectors should look out for the double vinyl set released by Music For Nations, and the French missprint. This cover has green inc instead of blue, so it looks kind of strange. The Australian gold CD and the picture disc is also hard to find items

TRACKS:
Fight Fire With Fire, Ride The Lightning, For Whom The Bell Tolls, Fade To Black, Trapped Under Ice, Escape, Creeping Death, The Call Of Ckulu

VINYL :

CD's

PICTURE DISCS:

TEST PRESSINGS:

PROMOS - Vinyl:

PROMOS - CDs:

Only released as promo 12" EP. It comes in two different colours - black vinyl and a special green glow in the dark vinyl. Please note that bootleg copes of the green version exist, so be sure you get the real stuff. This is one of the rarest Metallica items available. US only

Tracks:
Side1: Fade to black ,Side2: Fade to black

12" VINYL PROMO

Yet another 12" very rare promo from "Ride The Lightning" album. Side A has an edited version of this song which you can only find here.

Tracks:
Side 1: For Whom The Bell Tolls (edit), Side 2: For Whom The Bell Tolls

12" VINYL PROMO

featuring the original garage days on the B-side. Included is one cover tune, originally recorded by Blitzkrieg, and one track by Diamond Head. These tracks are now also available on the limited edition re-release of Kill 'Em All. "Garage Days Re-Revisited" is the follow up to this recording. Watch out for the coloured vinyl's, these are very hard to find, as well as the vinyl gold disc and the picture disc. Both without cover.

TRACKS:
Side A: Creeping Death, Side B: Am I Evil?(Diamond Head) , Blitzkrieg (Blitzkrieg)

12" VINYL

CD SINGLES

CASSETTES:

PICTURE DISCS:

TEST PRESSINGS

Metallica started to record this album in Denmark September 85, and ended the recording session with Flemming Rasmussen 27 December same year. It saw the light of day in Mars 86, and this was a total different album compared to the two first, both lyrically and musically. There is a lot of cool version of this album. Look out for the double album. The tree first album was re-released by Music For Nations as double discs, but it is only Master of puppets which comes with a poster.

TRACKS:
Battery, Master Of Puppets, The Thing That Should Not Be, Welcome Home (Sanitarium), Disposable Heroes, Leper Messiah, Orion (Instrumental), Damage Inc.

VINYL

CDs

PICTURE DISC

PROMO - Vinyl

PROMO - CDs:

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The first official 7" single released by Metallica, or should I say their record label in France as I don't think the four guys wanted this to be on the streets. Only 500 copies was printed

Tracks:
Side 1: Master Of Puppets, Side 2: Welcome Home (Sanitarium)

7" Vinyl

PROMO 12" vinyl

PROMO 7" Vinyl

Garage Days Re-Revisited was released in October 87 to introduce Jason, their new bass player, to the fans. One of the tracks was left off the British version so it could qualify for the singles chart. In Japan they included the lyrics, a biography as well as a large poster. This is a really great disc featuring only cover tunes by old favourites. Garage Days is now out of print and can be hard to find.

TRACKS:
Helpless, The Small Hours, The Wait, Crash Course In Brain Surgery, Last Caress / Green Hell

CD - EP

VINYL - EP

CASSETTES

TEST PRESSING

PROMO - Vinyl

PROMO - CDs

... And Justice For All sees the light of day after 9 months of recording. This is the first full album to feature Jason Newstead, and the Diamond Head cover The Prince is bonus track on the Japanese edition. Also look out for the Japanese tin can with the CD and a T-Shirt

TRACKS:
Blackened, ...And Justice For All, Eye Of The Beholder, One, The Shortest Straw, Harvester Of Sorrow, The Frayed Ends Of Sanity, To Live Is To Die, Dyers Eve

VINYL

CDs

TEST PRESSINGS

PROMO - Vinyl

PROMO - CDs

BOX SET

...And Justice For All was never released as a single to the public, only promo copies was pressed and sent out to the press and radio stations. The edited version of this song is only available on these promos

12" VINYL - Promo

CD Promo

This was the first single from the «Justice» album, and it is only released in Europe. Available as a 12" disc and CD, but if you're lucky some very cool promo items excist. The B-side tracks are the covers «Breadfan» and «The Prince» which later appeared on the «One» and «Eye of the beholder» singles in the US

TRACKS:
Harvester Of Sorrow, Breadfan, The Prince

CD

12" VINYL

PROMO - 12" vinyl

PROMO - 7" vinyl

Metallica have never released any «Greatest hits» or «Best of» collections, except for these promo samplers which are very hard to get. They are released when Metallica have new albums out, and sent out to radio stations to make them play songs from their first albums as well. All versions comes with different covers

TRACKS: Master Of Puppets, For Whom The Bell Tolls, Seek & Destroy, Fade To Black, Welcome Home (Sanitarium), The Thing That Should Not Be, Creeping Death (Bonus on 1989 release: One). The 1996 release has these tracks: Enter Sandman, Nothing Else Matters, One, Harvester Of Sorrow, Creeping Death, Fade To Black and For Whom The Bell Tolls

CDs

When The first «Mandatory Metallica» CD was released in the States, the European record company released this one. It doesn't have a name, but is called «The Whiplash sampler» as Whiplash is the first track on the CD

TRACKS:
Whiplash, Ride The Lightning, Welcome Home (Sanitarium), One

CD - Promo

A single only released in the US in two formats. Yet another cover drawing done by Pushead.

Tracks:
Side 1: Eye Of The Beholder, Side 2: Breadfan

7" VINYL

CASSETTES

PROMOS -12"

PROMOS - 7"

PROMO CDs

The first major single release by Metallica, and also the first one with a video. It has The Prince as B-side in the US, while some live tracks recorded in Dallas on February 5th 1989 was put on the European releases, as The Prince already appeared on Harvester Of Sorrow there. There are just too many versions of this one, you can collect in years, and still miss some items. Look out for the picture disc and the vinyl promos with covers.

7" VINYL

CD SINGLES

VINYL 12"

CASSETTE

PICTURE DISCS

TEST PRESSINGS

PROMOS 12" Vinyl

PROMOS 7" Vinyl

CD PROMO

One is released as a five track mini album in Japan for a reason I don't know. A limited edition on this comes with a wristband. This CD is still available and is a good chance to get Breadfan on CD if you don't have the American One single or the European Harvester of Sorrow maxi single.

Tracks:
One, Breadfan, For Whom The Bell Tolls (Live), Welcome Home (Sanitarium)(Live), One (Demo)

CD

This song was recorded for an Elektra sampler. It later appeared as a B-side on the «Enter sandman» single.

Track:
Stone Cold Crazy

CD PROMO

There is a lot of box sets out there with collections of ordinary singles or albums, but this is the only one put out by the band, or should I say their record company as Lars didn't like this box set. «It is done by the company to make some extra dollars» Lars said in an interview, «If you don't have the new live tracks, tape it from a friend». The box contains a poster and the following EPs. Jump in the fire, Creeping death, Garage days re-revisited, Harvester of sorrow, One, and a live disc only available here which contains these tracks:

TRACKS:
Harvester Of Sorrow v/s One, Breadfan (All live)

BOX

Metallica got a hell lot of new fans with this album. You understand that it is a good album when you see how many singles are. Vertigo UK released a tin can with the CD, a video and a T-shirt. They did 35.000 copies of this, so it might still be possible to find. There is a bonus on this album as well in Japan,- So What. The cover is almost totally black, but this isn't the first all-black Metallica cover. The two Collectors editions of One, and the EP box set released two years earlier was all-black as well. So from late 1989 to autumn 1992 all Metallica covers where dark as night.

TRACKS:
Enter Sandman, Sad But True, Holier Than Thou, The Unforgiven, Wherever I May Roam, Don't Tread On Me, Through The Never, Nothing Else Matters, Of Wolf And Man, The God That Failed, My Friend Of misery, The Strugle Within

VINYL

CD

BOX SET

TEST PRESSINGS

PROMO - CD

First single from the black album. It was released a few weeks prior to the album to get some media exposure before the album came out. This was the first introduction to the new and black covers for many fans. Even the picture disc is almost all black.

Tracks:
Enter sandman v/s Stone Cold Crazy

VINYL 7"

CDs

VINYL 12"

CASSETTES

PICTURE DISC - 7"

PROMO - 7" vinyl

PROMO - 12" vinyl

PROMO - CDs

A ballad. The fans hated that there were two ballads on the black album. «They have sold out» the die hard fans said, but haven't we heard that before. They said that when Ride The Lightning was released as well, «Fade To Black» is a ballad too remember. Killing time was chosen for the B-side this time. Metallica also recorded this track way back in 1982 on a demotape when they were a three piece band.

Tracks:
Side 1: The Unforgiven v/s Killing Time

7" VINYL

CDs

12" VINYL

CASSETTE

PICTURE DISC 7"

PROMO 7" VINYL

PROMO 12" VINYL

PROMO CD

A really heavy song. Look out for the rare 12" picture disc, or any formats with the Elevator version of Nothing Else matters. This is really cool with orchestra and stuff. There is a lot of different B-sides here, and some of them appears on other singles as well. The live tracks are recorded in Moscow September 28th 1991. It was not released in the US

Tracks:
Side 1: Sad But True, Side 2: So What (or live tracks)

7" SINGLE

CD SINGLES

12" SINGLE

CASSETTE

PROMO 7"

PROMO 12"

PROMO CD

This time So What was chosen for the B-side. This track was already on the Japanese edition of the Black album, and still is, as a bonus track.

Tacks:
Side 1: Sad But True, Side 2: So What, Harvester Of Sorrow (Live)

7" SINGLE

CDs

12" VINYL

CASSETTES

12" PICTURE DISC

PROMO - 7" Vinyl

PROMO - 12" Vinyl

PROMO - CDs

Yet another ballad from the black album. This was probably the biggest hit from that album.

Tracks:
Side 1: Nothing Else matters v/s Enter Sandman (live)

7" VINYL

CDs

12" Vinyl

CASSETTE

PROMO - 7" Vinyl

PROMO 12" Vinyl

PROMO CDs

These 3 tracks are recorded live at the Fredy Merqury tribute show at Wembley Stadium after he died of AIDS at April 20. It was mixed by Flemming Rasmussen the same day, and the day after, and this single was released only a few days later. The cover is done by Jayms and this is the first time we meet the «Scary guy» who later became their mascot.

TRACKS:
Enter Sandman, Sad But True, Nothing Else Matters. All live at Wembley Stadion, London, England April 20th 1992

CDs

Not really released to the public as only a few promotional copies do excist.

PROMO CD

This tape was given to the visitors at a record store on Manhattan on January 21st 93, when Metallica turned the whole store into a Metallistore. Both sides of the tape have the same songs recorded in Moscow 1 1/2 year earlier. The tape cover is designed by Jayms and it is an early version of the Scary guy which later ended up on the Live Shit box set.

Tracks:
Side 1 & 2: Last Caress, Am I Evil, Battery (All live in Moscow 28.09.91)

CASSETTE

Lars & Co. wanted to release a live album but couldn't decide which show to pick, so instead of releasing one show, they did three, one on CDs and two on videos. In addition you get a 72 pages book, a snake-pit pass and a scary guy stencil, all packed in a good looking box.

TRACKS:
CD 1: Live at the Sport Hall, Mexico City, Mexico February 25 - March 2 1993 Enter Sandman, Creeping Death, Harvester Of Sorrow, Welcome Home (Sanitarium), Sad But True, Of Wolf And Man, The Unforgiven, Justice Medley, Bass/Guitar Solos.

CD 2: Through The Never, For Whom The Bell Tolls, Fade To Black, Master Of Puppets, Seek & Destroy, Whiplash

CD 3: Nothing Else Matters, Wherever I May Roam, Am I Evil?, Last Caress, One, Battery, The Four Horsemen, Motorbreath, Stone Cold Crazy

VIDEO 1: Live at the Seattle Coliseum, Seattle, WA, USA on August 29 & 30, 1989 Blackened, For Whom The Bell Tolls, Welcome Home (Sanitarium), Harvester Of Sorrow, The Four Horsemen, The Thing That Should Not Be, Bass Solo, Master Of Puppets, Fade To Black, Seek & Destroy, ... And Justice For All, One, Creeping Death, Guitar Solo, Battery, Last Caress, Am I Evil?, Whiplash, Breadfan

VIDEO 2: Live at the Sports Arena, San Diego, CA, USA on January 13 & 14, 1992 20 minute Metallimovie, Enter Sandman, Creeping Death, Harvester Of Sorrow, Welcome Home (Sanitarium), Sad But True, Wherever I May Roam, Bass Solo, Thru The Never, The Unforgiven, ... And Justice For All, Drum solo, Guitar Solo

VIDEO 3: Live at the Sports Arena, San Diego, CA, USA on January 13 & 14, 1992 cont. The Four Horsemen, For Whom The Bells Tolls, Fade To Black, Whiplash, Master Of Puppets, Seek & Destroy, One, Last Caress, Am I Evil?, Battery, Stone Cold Crazy

BOX SET

A re-release of the hit(?) single One. This time a live version to promote the Box set, so the cover is changed and the B-side tracks is not the same. A cool item that didn't sell very well. One of singles even have 3 different versions of the same track

Tracks:
v/s Whiplash, For Whom The Bell Tolls, Last Caress (All live)

CD

PICTURE DISC 12"

Very rare double promo CD. This disc was printed and distributed to radio stations in the US. All the "F" words is edited, and you will find tracks from all the concerts in the box. A bootleg excist, and the different between these is that the promo comes in a Cardboard sleeve while the bootleg in a plastic jewel case.

2CD

After five years of wait Load sees the light of day. New image and new music, and the fans says that they have sold out, as they have said since Ride The Lightning. Collectors look out for the limited edition double Australian item with interview disc.

TRACKS:
Ain't My Bitch, 2x4, The House jack Built, Until It Sleeps, King Nothing, Hero Of The Day, Bleeding Me, Cure, Poor Twisted Me, Wasting My Hate, Mama Said, Thorn Within, Ronnie, The Outlaw Torn

DOUBLE VINYL

CD

PROMO - CDs

English promo interview disc sent out to various radio stations along with a question sheet so the hosts could «interview» the band themselves. The interview is done by Ian «Molly» Meldrum in Sydney, Australia. This is the same interview as is in the Australian Load CD.

CD

First single from Load, released to get some air play and publicity prior the album. The Herman Melville mix of the song which is on some of the versions is done by Moby.

TRACKS:
Until It Sleeps, Overkill

7" VINYL

CD SINGLES

10" VINYL

CASSETTE

PROMO CD

PROMO 7" Vinyl

This single introduce us to the Motorhead covers. Metallica have been Motorhead fans since the early beginning, but this is the first time they have recorded any of their songs in studio. They recorded them in a rehearsal for Lemmy's (Motorheads main man) 50th birthday party where Metallica jammed with him. Try to find the red box with the single featuring all the Motorhead covers plus a poster.

7" VINYL

CD SINGLES

12" VINYL

PROMO CD

3rd single follows the two previous with 3 parts, and live plus a demo version as B side.

CD

7" PICTURE DISC

PROMO CD