Kill 'Em All

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艺人: Metallica
语种: 英语
厂牌: Megaforce Records
发行时间: 1983年07月25日
专辑类别: 录音室专辑

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★重金属唯一天王级乐团，首张专辑

★横扫8座葛莱美奖，全美狂销三白金

5张冠军专辑、8座葛莱美奖、20首告示牌上榜单曲、全球超过1亿2000万张专辑销售，滚石杂志Rolling Stone票选「史上最佳百大乐团」，他们正是整个金属界唯一有资格受到千万人所膜拜跟随的金属製品合唱团Metallica。

1981年成军于加州洛杉矶的Metallica，经历了几次团员变动，目前由灵魂人物主唱James Hetfield以及鼓手Lars Ulrich两人撑起乐团半边天，佐以滚石杂志百大吉他手No.11的主吉他手Kirk Hammett与贝斯手Robert Trujillo，这四人现今已是受到全球千万人膜拜的金属之神。1983年，他们的首张破天荒专辑【杀无赦Kill 'Em All】在现任主吉他手Kirk Hammett、前任贝斯手Cliff Burton加入后录製完成；发行后创下全美超过300万张热卖，更一口气闯进英国、美国、瑞士、法国、西班牙、澳洲与瑞典等地排行榜，也间接开创了Metallica的金属世代。

【Kill 'Em All】的开场曲"Hit the Lights"力道十足，完全展现了Metallica初生之犊不畏虎的壮志；主打歌曲之一的"Jump in the Fire"由麦加帝斯合唱团Megadeth灵魂元老Dave Mustaine共同谱曲製作，浑厚力道的听觉重击，充斥著整首歌曲；旷世经典名曲"Whiplash"凸显了主唱James Hetfield以及鼓手Lars Ulrich两人的创作天才。回归到金属製品合唱团原点的【Kill 'Em All】，绝对是本世纪中最伟大的金属专辑之一。

Kill 'Em All is the debut studio album by American heavy metal band Metallica, released on July 25, 1983. Since its release, it has been certified 3× platinum by the RIAA, having sold over three million copies in the United States.

Metallica's original line-up featured James Hetfield (guitar/vocals), Lars Ulrich (drums), Ron McGovney (bass), and Dave Mustaine (lead guitar). Because of tensions with Mustaine, McGovney left the band. Castro Valley-born bassist Cliff Burton was recruited as his replacement. Mustaine was fired in April 1983 for his drug and alcohol problems, overly aggressive behavior and clashes with bandmates. After Mustaine's departure, Metallica recruited Kirk Hammett, who previously played for Exodus and was a one time student of Joe Satriani. The band started recording the album with Hammett, whose guitar solos on the album were partially based on Mustaine's original solos (the first four bars of most solos were written by Mustaine), barely a month later. Mustaine then formed the band Megadeth, which also achieved multi-million selling success.

Despite their differences, Mustaine's contributions to the early years of Metallica were still acknowledged; he received co-writing credits on four of the songs on Kill 'Em All. The songs "The Four Horsemen" (originally titled "The Mechanix"), "Jump in the Fire", "Phantom Lord" and "Metal Militia" were primarily written by Mustaine, most of "The Four Horsemen" was written by Dave Mustaine when he was in his previous band Panic. "The Mechanix" was performed at many early Metallica shows, but following Mustaine's exit, the band added a mid-paced, melodic middle section. Hetfield also wrote new lyrics for both "The Mechanix" and "Jump in the Fire" (a song originally about teenage sexual frustration), and retitled "The Mechanix" as "The Four Horsemen".

The band initially intended to title the album Metal Up Your Ass with the cover featuring a toilet bowl with a hand clutching a dagger emerging from it. However, Megaforce urged them to change this, and they agreed, switching to Kill 'Em All. This time the cover featured the shadow of a hand letting go of a bloodied hammer. Burton is credited with coming up with the name Kill 'Em All (referring to timid record distributors, saying "why don't we just kill 'em all?") as a response to the whole situation. Even though the original title was unused, the band did later release a "Metal Up Your Ass" t-shirt with the proposed artwork. A live bootleg recording of a 1982 performance is in existence, titled Metal Up Your Ass (Live), and includes the originally intended cover artwork.

Original pressings of the album came with an inner sleeve that included pictures and lyrics as well as a silver label on the vinyl. Subsequent pressings had a blank white sleeve and standard album label. The 1988 re-release re-introduced the lyrics and photos. The original release can be distinguished by the words "Bang That Head That Doesn't Bang" at the top of the back cover. This was dropped from the re-release.

Kill 'Em All has received mostly positive reviews. Allmusic reviewer Steve Huey gave the album a rating of five stars and called it "the true birth of thrash". He praised Hetfield's highly technical rhythm guitar style and described the rest of the band as "dexterous, playing with tightly controlled fury even at the most ridiculously fast tempos". Music critic Piero Scaruffi labeled Metallica as the innovators of the speed metal genre with this particular album. He further said that the band's playing style created a sense of suffocation that simply got worse as the album proceeded from "Hit The Lights" to "Metal Militia". Greg Kot from Chicago Tribune also labeled this release as "the speed-metal prototype", saying that the music blends "Euro-metal riffs with punk-rock velocity".

Jason Heller in a recent column for The A.V. Club wrote that Kill ’Em All is "the point where Metallica truly became Metallica". He addressed that "it also captures thrash on the cusp of blowing up" and "it became, for better or worse, the benchmark against which early thrash [album] would be measured". The Rolling Stone Album Guide (2004) credited the album for consolidating punk rock and heavy metal, but felt that apart from "Seek and Destroy" and "(Anesthesia) Pulling Teeth", most of the album had the band "trying to look tough" over enthusiastic, but unfinished riff-based songs.

In 1989, Kill 'Em All ranked number 35 on Rolling Stone's list of The 100 Greatest Albums of the '80s, and was listed by Kerrang! magazine at number 29 among the "100 Greatest Heavy Metal Albums of All Time". The album peaked at number 120 on the U.S. Billboard 200 in 1986, after Metallica rose to popularity with their third studio album Master of Puppets, and sold 300,000 copies upon first release. It sold 500,000 copies and was certified gold in 1989, platinum in 1991, 2x platinum in 1995 and triple platinum in 1999.

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by Steve Huey

The true birth of thrash. On Kill 'Em All, Metallica fuses the intricate riffing of New Wave of British Heavy Metal bands like Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, and Diamond Head with the velocity of Motörhead and hardcore punk. James Hetfield's highly technical rhythm guitar style drives most of the album, setting new standards of power, precision, and stamina. But really, the rest of the band is just as dexterous, playing with tightly controlled fury even at the most ridiculously fast tempos. There are already several extended, multi-sectioned compositions foreshadowing the band's later progressive epics, though these are driven by adrenaline, not texture. A few tributes to heavy metal itself are a bit dated lyrically; like Diamond Head, the band's biggest influence, Kill 'Em All's most effective tone is one of supernatural malevolence -- as pure sound, the record is already straight from the pits of hell. Ex-member Dave Mustaine co-wrote four of the original ten tracks, but the material all sounds of a piece. And actually, anyone who worked backward through the band's catalog might not fully appreciate the impact of Kill 'Em All when it first appeared -- unlike later releases, there simply isn't much musical variation (apart from a lyrical bass solo from Cliff Burton). The band's musical ambition also grew rapidly, so today, Kill 'Em All sounds more like the foundation for greater things to come. But that doesn't take anything away from how fresh it sounded upon first release, and time hasn't dulled the giddy rush of excitement in these performances. Frightening, awe-inspiring, and absolutely relentless, Kill 'Em All is pure destructive power, executed with jaw-dropping levels of scientific precision. [An Elektra reissue added the cover songs "Blitzkrieg" and "Am I Evil?" from the European Creeping Death EP, which were later deleted and included on Garage, Inc.]

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