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List Price: $18.98 | | Label: Elektra / Wea
Salesrank: 1063
Released: June 20, 1995 |
| Our Price: $7.07 |
| Used Price: $4.72 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Kill 'Em All Track Listing:
1. Hit the Lights
2. Four Horsemen
3. Motorbreath
4. Jump in the Fire
5. (Anesthesia) Pulling Teeth
6. Whiplash
7. Phantom Lord
8. No Remorse
9. Seek and Destroy
10. Metal Militia
Editorial Review:
Japanese exclusive reissue of 1983 album packaged in a miniature LP sleeve features 10 tracks. CBS. 2003.
Description of Kill 'Em All:
While not as timeless as Ride the Lightning or Master Puppets, Metallica's debut album--originally released in 1983--is still a fine piece of thrash metal, and as good a marker as any for the debut of the genre. Fusing the rapid-fire attack of bands like Motorhead with a guitar style reminiscent of such British heavy metal bands as Iron Maiden and Judas Priest, Metallica essentially created a new kind of metal. Several of the songs from this 1983 album have since become classics, including "Seek & Destroy", "The Four Horsemen", and "Jump in the Fire". The songwriting isn't as sophisticated as on Metallica's later releases; still, it's a great listen, and essential for any heavy metal fan. --Genevieve Williams
Kill 'Em All Reviews:
METALLICA, Kill's them all, with this record. 
2009-12-07 - They started the thrash metal trend with this record, along with a few other bands, taking heavy metal music to new frontiers. This record is fast, and furious, with some heavy riffs as well. The sound quality is kind of raw, but that's okay.
Metallica - Raw Debut 
2009-12-01 - The debut release from Metallica has to be taken in context with the time period that the album appeared. For many Metallica ushered in the era of thrash metal with this album. One could argue that Motorhead did it first, but they never reached mass appeal, especially in the U.S. the way that Metallica would eventually do. "Kill Em All" sounds raw compared to the band's later releases, but it contains the core elements of everything that their fans would come to love about them including speed, power, punk, and a dash of progressive rock. This is an album from a young driven band with little prior studio experience. The vocals are screechy in spots, as Hetfield was just learning his craft at this point. The drumming is a bit pedestrian and the guitar playing is a bit sloppy here and there. The lyrics on this album are rather juvenile; something the band would improve greatly on later in their career. That being said tracks like "Hit The Lights", "The Four Horsemen" and "Seek And Destroy" still hold up well today, and continue to make appearances in the band's live shows. Metallica would improve greatly with their next album "Ride The Lightning", but although far from perfect, "Kill Em All" remains a pioneering album in the history of heavy metal.
Kill 'Em All 
2009-11-29 - Kill 'Em All being Metallica's 1983 release and their debut album is thrash metal and speed metal at its finest. Here we get well-written lyrics, amazing guitar riffs and intensity and anger in the singing. The booklet is quite simple with all the lyrics and a photograph of the band on the back of the booklet. The critics loved the album when it was released and Allmusic gave it 5/5. I think it is a great release but 4/5 is a more fair assessment. 4/5.
Amazon keeps bugging me to review this!
2009-10-15 - It was nice to hear their first album.
My favorite song to date is still "Enter Sandman"
A review no one will ever see...why not???
2009-10-02 - "While not as timeless as Ride the Lightning or Master Puppets..."-Amazon review written by jackass.
It takes about 7 beers for me to bother wasting my time writing these things, but let us be honest-as human beings, we have an innate need to be seen and heard. Beer and a keyboard...the opinions of the faceless are precious!
So...my words. A bunch of young guys (a freakishly awesome bassist, a vocalist/rhythm guitarist in dire need of substances in order to communicate, a spoiled brat from Denmark with heavy-duty NWOBHM knowledge, and a lead guitar substitute in the closet) made a record in 83' that sounded like Motorhead had a little brother who liked to break windows and eat the glass.
For all intensive purposes, as a 14 year-old at the time, I desired to purchase "...And Justice for All"...you know, because of THAT video. Well, the store sold out of it...so I bought this one...on cassette. I'm old. Anyway, 20 years later, I'm a married man with a "Kill em' All" tapestry on the wall.
Figure it out.
