Feedback from Curly Turkey Feel free to revert any of my copyedits I m not as familiar with this album as the I am with Lighting through the black album I mean I ve listened to it all the way through a few times but usually I only put it on for Anesthesia The band s described as heavy metal in the lead while the album s thrash metal in the infobox It s not really a contradiction but given Metallica s one of the band s that defined thrash I d probably call them thrash in this context After establishing its lineup Metallica started playing shows in local clubs Metallica recorded a couple of demos trying to get attention from club owners The group s No Life til Leather demo 1982 caught the attention of Megaforce label head Jon Zazula who signed them and provided a small budget for recording I d put this kind of stuff in a later paragraph in the lead I d stick to describing the album itself and its significance in the first paragraph of the lead the album sold 60 000 copies worldwide by the end of Metallica s European tour I assume this means a tour that happened in 1983 It s not clear as we just read about the 1988 re issue for shipping three million copies in the United States that s probably too fine a detail for the lead The band s first lineup maybe first stable lineup or something As they d already recorded with McGovney and Grant by this point right The gig was infamous because Mustaine had problems with the guitar distortion pedal and broke a string during a song I m not sure infamous is the right word here did lots of people talk about the show because of these things Mustaine interacted with the fans at Metallica s earliest shows because Hetfield was shy I m not sure this gets the intended point across maybe something like Hetfield was too shy to interact with fans so Mustaine took it upon himself to do so which appeared on the second pressing of Metal Massacre does this mean when Metal Massacre was re released the original recording of Hit the Lights was replaced with the newer recording Although Zazula wanted Hammett to replicate Mustaine s solos Hammett s guitar solos on the album were partially based on Mustaine s original solos with the first four bars of most solos written by Mustaine before his departure I m not sure I follow did Hammett replicate Mustaine s solos or not The final cover featured the shadow of a hand letting go of a bloodied hammer is it worth crediting the cover image Burton was credited with coming up with the name Kill Em All referring to timid record distributors saying Those record company fuckers kill em all as a response to the situation Is that the official story The one I heard was that the band kept rejecting suggestions for titles at which the producer or whoever got fed up and said something like Okay kill em all meaning kill all the title suggestions What do other sources say I m going to take a break here just before Music and lyrics