Metallica Discography

Metallica released the five song covers album ‘The $5.98 E.P.: Garage Days Re-Revisited’ in 1987. Almost a decade later, the band had added several more cover songs to their repertoire, and the original E.P. was long out of print. They decided to put together a double album of cover tunes.

After waiting more than five years between ‘Metallica’ and ‘Load,’ fans of Metallica only had to wait 18 months for ‘ReLoad.’ The reason is because the band wrote more than two dozen songs for ‘Load’ and thought about doing a double album. Instead, they put out ‘Load,’ then came back and finished the rest of the songs from that session, which became ‘ReLoad.’

When a band has a successful album, the usual plan is to release another one with a reasonably similar sound a couple years later to capitalize on the previous record’s success and keep the momentum going. Metallica has never done it that way. They work on their own timetable, and generally piss off a portion of their fan base with every new release, but garner legions of new fans in the process.

In 1993, Metallica released the box set ‘Live Sh*t: Binge & Purge,’ which consisted of three CDs and three VHS tapes (kids, ask your parents what those are).

Metallica went from being one of the most popular and successful metal bands to being one of the most popular and successful bands, period.

After the death of Cliff Burton, Metallica was at a crossroads. The band was achieving greater success with every album, and Burton was a vital part of that success and their chemistry. But, after getting the blessing of Cliff’s family, Metallica decided to continue. They...

Some bands dislike recording cover songs, but Metallica have always embraced them.

Two albums into their career Metallica had built a solid fan base and helped establish and popularize the thrash genre.

Metallica’s debut album Kill ‘Em All was a thrash masterpiece, and established the band as a force to be reckoned with.

They are fully engrained in mainstream music today, but in the early ‘80s Metallica were a young band helping pioneer speed/thrash metal.