LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JULY 25, 2019…36 YEARS AGO METALLICA RELEASED THEIR DEBUT ALBUM ‘KILL EM ALL’
SOME FUN FACTS CONCERNING ‘KILL ‘EM ALL’
-THE ALBUM WAS ORIGINALLY GOING TO BE CALLED ‘METAL UP YOUR ASS’
-THE ARTWORK WAS GOING TO FEATURE A HAND STICKING OUT OF A TOILET CLUTCHING A DAGGER. THE GROUP’S RECORD COMPANY AND RECORD DISTRIBUTORS REFUSED TO PUT OUT THE ALBUM WITH THE COVER CALLING IT OBSCENE.
– CLIFF BURTON CAME UP WITH THE TITLE ‘KILL ‘EM ALL’ AFTER BEING UPSET WITH THE PUSSY RECORD DISTRIBUTORS
-DAVE MUSTAINE WAS KICKED OUT OF METALLICA A MONTH BEFORE THE BAND RECORDED THIS ALBUM
-KIRK HAMMETT HAD A MONTH TO REWORK MUSTAINE’S SOLOS
-TOTAL DOWNLOADS AND ALBUM SALES OF ‘KILL ‘EM ALL’ IS JUST UNDER 10 MILLION COPIES.
-SINCE 2003 METALLICA HAS CLOSED ALMOST EVERY SHOW WITH ‘SEEK AND DESTROY’
-WHEN THE BAND PLAYED AT THE FILLMORE FOR THEIR 30TH ANNIVERSARY,
THE BAND INVITED ORIGINAL GUITARIST DAVE MUSTAINE AND ORIGINAL BASSIST RON MCGOVNEY ONSTAGE TO JAM ON SOME ‘KILL ‘EM ALL
HERE’S AN OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE OF ‘SEEK AND DESTROY’
