The true birth of hrash. On Kill 'Em All, Metallica fuses the intricate riffing of New Wave of British Heavy Metal bands like Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, and Diamond Head with the velocity of Motörhead and hardcore punk. James Hetfield's highly technical rhythm guitar style drives most of the album, setting new standards of power, precision, and stamina. But really, the rest of the band is just as dexterous, playing with tightly controlled fury even at the most ridiculously fast tempos. There are already several extended, multi-sectioned compositions foreshadowing the band's later progressive epics, though these are driven by adrenaline, not texture. A few tributes to heavy metal itself are a bit dated lyrically; like Diamond Head, the band's biggest influence, Kill 'Em All's most effective tone is one of supernatural malevolence -- as pure sound, the record is already straight from the pits of hell. Ex-member Dave Mustaine co-wrote four of the original ten tracks, but the material all sounds of a piece. And actually, anyone who worked backward through the band's catalog might not fully appreciate the impact of Kill 'Em All when it first appeared -- unlike later releases, there simply isn't much musical variation (apart from a lyrical bass solo from Cliff Burton). The band's musical ambition also grew rapidly, so today, Kill 'Em All sounds more like the foundation for greater things to come. But that doesn't take anything away from how fresh it sounded upon first release, and time hasn't dulled the giddy rush of excitement in these performances. Frightening, awe-inspiring, and absolutely relentless, Kill 'Em All is pure destructive power, executed with jaw-dropping levels of scientific precision. [An Elektra reissue added the cover songs "Blitzkrieg" and "Am I Evil?" from the European Creeping Death EP, which were later deleted and included on Garage, Inc.]
Seek and Destroy... a quintessential Metallica song from a classic album. Listening to this song can bring back those memories -- memories of sunny days and smiling faces, and running wild and free through fields of daisies...Wait, what am I talking about? Seek and Destroy is probably one of the more idiotic of Metallica's songs (about as elegant as ReLoad's 'Fuel'). What sets this song apart i...
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Some of you folks have come out without me coming after ya! Cool. I have a hectic schedule so I can't really bother with that....:-P. Now that I have the attention of some of you folks, I want to know, who in the celebrity world is an in the closet metalhead?I think Billy Zane may or may not be. I read somewhere that he was headbanging to Pantera's, Cemetery Gates when he was filming the mo...
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I want to know from everyone here on MOG, what is your favorite metal song or band? I don't care what it is, just spit it out. Don't make me come through my monitor and find you! ;-P
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Raw wicked fiery thrash power kill dying dead METALLICA - "The Four Horsemen", from Kill 'Em All (1983) -KW Related posts: OH, SNAP: KIP WINGER INSULTS LARS ULRICH (27) 8-BIT METALLICA: SURPRISINGLY KICK-ASS (11) MANAGEABLE METALLICA MONDAY #3 (OF 4) (8) MANAGEABLE METALLICA MONDAY (ON TUESDAY) #2 (OF 4) (12) MANAGEABLE METALLICA MONDAY #1 (OF 4) (19)
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In about a month(July 25), Metallica's debut album Kill 'Em All will celebrate it's 25th year of being on the shelves. Will more than 3 million records sold in the US alone, the album is considered more than just Bay Area metal on the map, but helped in part make metal a worldwide household name. Metal Blade Records owner and CEO Brian Slagel recently conducted interviews with Metallica guitari...
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Metallica is making a statement, and it's one that all of us patrons of independent record stores around the world can appreciate. The hard rock quartet will make its first in-store appearance in nearly a decade to support independent records stores when the group members show up for a meet-and-greet at Rasputin Music's Mountain View store, near San Francisco."In addition to promoting the 180-g...
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Yeah, Kill 'em all seems a bit more harsh than metal up your ass, you'd be in pain, but not dead.Anyway, I promised a few of you pics of my new truck, so here they are, with a killer adrenaline JAM -> Where's my brother Lester at ->how about this -> HAPPY FRIDAY METAL
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I want to know from everyone here on MOG, what is your favorite metal song or band? I don't care what it is, just spit it out. Don't make me come through my monitor and find you! ;-P
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No Remorse...too easy these days for people to have no conviction, to just live their lives oblivious to the consequences, hurting everyone in their path, it's sad really, CAN't WE ALL JUST GET ALONG???? no, we can't, and it's all your fault...Jack's hiarline fractured tibia,Tyler Durden
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Metal Militia...T2 judgment day, when the machines rise up in their anger for us using them as slaves...an army of angry fax machines and computer monitors AAAHHHH, shakin in my Sears Steel Toe Boots, I'd be more scared of the rise of the homeless...derelicts are more fierce, they feel no pain and keep coming...Jack's morose sense of doom,Tyler Durden
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Phantom Lord...once heard a story of a nerdy kid who consumed his whole life with Dungeons & Dragons, after years of practicing satan worship as well he saw a huge snarling demon from his D&D game, it told him in an unknown tongue to never stop playing D&D or he would return and devour his whole family...scared the kid so bad, but anytime he decided to get rid of his board, the oozing beast wou...
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(Anesthesia) Pulling Teeth Bass Solo....Cliff is a Master Of Bass...he is sorely missed...and so is DIME, 2 of my best musical influences...most of my heavy guitar riffs sound like DIME, and most of my lead playing sounds like Hammett...and any time I get a bass in my hands, guess what song I play!!! Anesthesia baby....Jack's versatile musical abilities,Tyler Durden
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Seek and Destroy...the weapons manufactured in secret these days...WHOAH...a buddy of mine was in the marine Corps. and learned computer hacking...we hacked into an artillery creation website, it was on the same intranet as the CIA, where his password worked....anyway, we saw the blue prints and test video of a frisbee sized bomb that travels faster than any existing bullet or missle or plane, ...
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Motorbreath...whatever you are eating to have someone tell you that you have motorbreath, I don't know...but I will tell you that I have worked on my fair share of cars and smelled quite a lot of funky engine smells, and I have smelled some pretty bad breath...ahhh, maybe if someone has rotten egg terd breath, than I could say he's got Catalytic converter breath....Jack's busted, overtorqued kn...
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Jump in the Fire....sounds tempting, but I have to dig out my ingrown toenail that is infected and oozing dark yellow pus and is quite painful to the touch....there was a black woman on Jerry Springer that would chew off her pimps' corns, maybe she can suck the pus out of my toe!!!! haha haha haJack's putrid, nauseating description,Tyler Durden
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Hit the Lights...one great bass player, who doesn't give his life to dying of a drug overdose, but getting crushed underneath a tour bus...what a cruel twist of irony and fate, to lose a legend anyway sucks, but to a patch of icy road, c'mon...Jack's 1983 rock 'n' roll hair,Tyler Durden
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