Artist: Metallica
Title: Kill Em All
Label: Blackened Recordings
Release Year: 1983/2016
Duration: Album
Format: CD
Packaging Type: Digisleeve

Kill 'Em All is regarded as a groundbreaking album for thrash metal because of its precise musicianship, which fuses the New Wave of British Heavy Metal riffs with hardcore punk tempos. Its musical approach and lyrics were markedly different from rock's mainstream of the early '80s and inspired a number of bands who followed in a similar manner.

Metallica is easily one of the best, most influential heavy metal bands of the '80s. Responsible for bringing the genre back to Earth, the bandmates looked and talked like they were from the street, shunning the usual rockstar games of metal musicians during the early '80s. They expanded the limits of thrash, using speed and volume, not for their own sake, but to enhance their intricately structured compositions.

Recommended if you like: Iron Maiden, Testament, Pantera, Slayer, Anthrax, Megadeth, Black Sabbath, Motorhead, Judas Priest, Lamb of God, Machine Head

Track Listing:
1. Hit the Lights
2. The Four Horsemen
3. Motorbreath
4. Jump in the Fire
5. (Anesthesia) - Pulling Teeth
6. Whiplash
7. Phantom Lord
8. No Remorse
9. Seek & Destroy
10. Metal Militia