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Kill 'Em All

The debut, cut in Rochester in under three weeks for about $15,000.
Metallica, 1983

Released
25 July 1983
Recorded
10 to 27 May 1983
Studio
Music America Studios, Rochester, New York
Label
Megaforce
Producer
Paul Curcio
Length
51:20

Jon Zazula was executive producer. The record was going to be called Metal Up Your Ass, and the band credits Burton with the title it received instead. AllMusic's Steve Huey called it the true birth of thrash. It reached the Billboard 200 only in 1986, at number 155.

Track listing

  1. Hit the Lights4:17
  2. The Four Horsemen7:13
  3. Motorbreath3:08
  4. Jump in the Fire4:41
  5. (Anesthesia) Pulling Teeth4:14
  6. Whiplash4:08
  7. Phantom Lord5:01
  8. No Remorse6:26
  9. Seek & Destroy6:54
  10. Metal Militia5:11

More from Metallica

Ride the Lightning (1984), Master of Puppets (1986), ...And Justice for All (1988), Metallica (1991), S&M (1999), Death Magnetic (2008)

Sources

  1. Kill 'Em All, Wikipedia