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===Track listing===
===Track listing===
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#"Battery" - 5:23 <small>(Instrumental)</small>
| title1 = Battery
#"Battery" - 4:43 <small>(Vocal)</small>
#"Disposable Heroes" - 9:13 <small>(Instrumental)</small>
| note1 = Instrumental
| length1 = 5:23
#"Disposable Heroes" - 9:15 <small>(Vocal)</small>
| title2 = Battery
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#"[[Master of Puppets (song)|Master of Puppets]]" - 8:51 <small>(Instrumental)</small>
| length2 = 4:43
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#"[[Welcome Home (Sanitarium)|Welcome Home]]" / "Orion" - 9:38 <small>(Instrumental)</small>
| title3 = Disposable Heroes
#"Welcome Home" / "Orion" - 8:56 <small>(Vocal)</small>
| note3 = Instrumental
| length3 = 9:13
| title4 = Disposable Heroes
| length4 = 9:15
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| title5 = [[Master of Puppets (song)|Master of Puppets]]
| note5 = Instrumental
| length5 = 8:51
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| title6 = [[Welcome Home (Sanitarium)|Welcome Home]]/Orion
| note6 = Instrumental
| length6 = 9:38
| title7 = Welcome Home/Orion
| length7 = 9:38
}}
length - 55:59
length - 55:59


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===Track listing===
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#"Blackened" <small>(Forward intro)</small> - 0:36
| title1 = Blackened
#"Blackened" - 5:57
| note1 = Forward Intro
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#"[[...And Justice for All (song)|...And Justice for All]]" - 8:14
| length1 = 0:36
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#"[[Eye of the Beholder (song)|Eye of the Beholder]]" - 6:19
| title2 = Blackened
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#"[[One (Metallica song)|One]]" - 7:00
| length2 = 5:57
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#"The Shortest Straw" - 6:28
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| title3 = [[...And Justice for All (song)|...And Justice for All]]
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#"[[Harvester of Sorrow]]" - 5:37
| length3 = 8:14
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#"The Frayed Ends of Sanity" - 7:30
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| title4 = [[Eye of the Beholder (song)|Eye of the Beholder]]
#"[[To Live Is to Die]]" <small>(Instrumental)</small> - 9:57
| length4 = 8:14
#"Dyers Eve" - 5:35
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| title5 = [[One (Metallica song)|One]]
| length5 = 7:00
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| title6 = The Shortest Straw
| length6 = 6:28
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| title7 = [[Harvester of Sorrow]]
| length7 = 5:37
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| title8 = The Frayed Ends of Sanity
| length8 = 7:30
| title9 = [[To Live Is to Die]]
| note9 = Instrumental
| length9 = 9:57
| title10 = Dyers Eve
| length10 = 5:35
}}
length - 62:03
length - 62:03


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===Track listing===
===Track listing===
{{Tracklisting
#"That Was Just Your Life" - 7:11
| title1 = That Was Just Your Life
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#"The End Of The Line" - 7:35
| length1 = 7:11
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#"Broken, Beat & Scarred" - 6:13
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| title2 = The End Of The Line
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#"The Day That Never Comes" - 8:15
| length2 = 7:35
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#"All Nightmare Long" - 7:59
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| title3 = Broken, Beat & Scarred
#"Cyanide" - 6:32
| length3 = 6:13
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#"The Unforgiven III" - 7:51
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| title4 = The Day That Never Comes
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#"The Judas Kiss" - 7:56
| length4 = 8:15
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#"Suicide And Redemption" - 9:31
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| title5 = All Nightmare Long
#"My Apocalypse" - 5:19
| length5 = 7:59
| title6 = Cyanide
| length6 = 6:32
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| title7 = The Unforgiven III
| length7 = 7:51
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| title8 = The Judas Kiss
| length8 = 7:56
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| title9 = Suicide And Redemption
| note9 = Instrumental
| length9 = 9:31
| title10 = My Apocalypse
| length10 = 5:19
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===Personnel===
===Personnel===

Revision as of 06:40, 16 August 2010

"Horsemen of the Apocalypse" redirects here. For the Biblical reference, see Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

American heavy metal band Metallica recorded several demos throughout their career. The following is a chronological list of Metallica demos:

Ron McGovney's '82 Garage demo

This is a demo tape that was never officially released, however the tape found wide circulation both in full and partial versions. The demo contains two original songs, "Hit the Lights" and "Jump in the Fire" along with six cover songs. These include one Sweet Savage cover, a Savage cover and four Diamond Head covers. "Hit the Lights" and "Jump in the Fire" were later released on the No Life 'til Leather demo and eventually made it onto the band's debut album, Kill 'Em All. Most of the covers can be found in the band's much later album, Garage Inc.. The demo was recorded in Ron McGovney's garage on March 14, 1982.[1]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Hit the Lights"4:19
2."Jump in the Fire"4:25
3."Killing Time" (Sweet Savage cover)2:36
4."Let It Loose" (Savage cover)3:10
5."Sucking My Love" (Diamond Head cover)6:43
6."The Prince" (Diamond Head cover)5:00
7."Am I Evil?" (Diamond Head cover)7:43
8."Helpless" (Diamond Head cover)6:13

length - 38:11

Personnel

Power Metal demo

Power Metal was a demo recorded sometime in April 1982. Although the demo was never officially released, it was given the bootleg name "Power Metal" and contained four original songs by Metallica. It contained "The Mechanix", the first song written for the band by Dave Mustaine, and "Motorbreath", which was written solely by James Hetfield. It was also recorded in Ron's garage.[2]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Hit the Lights"4:18
2."Jump in the Fire"3:55
3."The Mechanix"4:47
4."Motorbreath"3:23

length - 16:23

Personnel

  • James Hetfield - vocals, rhythm guitar
  • Dave Mustaine - lead guitar, backing vocals
  • Ron McGovney - bass guitar
  • Lars Ulrich - drums

Note: "The Mechanix" was the original version that later would be called "The Four Horsemen". Mustaine increased the pace from the original version of the song, renamed it simply "Mechanix", and included it on the first Megadeth album, Killing Is My Business... And Business Is Good!.

No Life 'til Leather

No Life 'til Leather is Metallica's widely circulated demo tape featuring Dave Mustaine on lead guitar. All the tracks are early recordings of songs that would later appear on the band's Kill 'Em All album. The track listing on Kill 'Em All is the same as that on the demo tape, save the addition of Cliff Burton's bass solo "(Anesthesia) Pulling Teeth", "Whiplash", "No Remorse" and "The Mechanix" (See notes above). The title of the demo comes from the first line of Hit the Lights.[3]

The demo has been re-released twice unofficially, first under the title of Metallica—Bay Area Thrashers, and was alleged to be a live bootleg recording of Metallica in the early days, however all 'live' sounds had been added from various sources including the Metallica video Cliff 'Em All. This was soon discovered by Metallica and all copies were removed from stores. The demo was re-released a second time under the title Metallica—In the Beginning... Live, containing no differences from Metallica-Bay Area Thrashers.

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Hit the Lights"4:18
2."The Mechanix"4:28
3."Motorbreath"3:18
4."Seek and Destroy"4:55
5."Metal Militia"5:17
6."Jump in the Fire"3:51
7."Phantom Lord"3:33

length - 29:41

Personnel

  • Cliff Burton is given credit on the demo but does not perform.

Metal up Your Ass (Live)

Metal up Your Ass was recorded on November 29, 1982, at the Old Waldorf in San Francisco. The support band was Exodus, featuring Metallica's soon-to-be lead guitarist Kirk Hammett. The band played all their original material (nine songs) that they had written up to that point, which included all the songs from their previous demo No Life 'Til Leather and two new songs (which were later released on the Megaforce demo). Two covers of Diamond Head songs were played: "Am I Evil?" and "The Prince", however "The Prince" was not recorded as the tape had run out. Both the name and album cover of this demo were to be used as the band's first album name and sleeve. However, Metallica's record company would not allow it. The band changed the name to Kill 'Em All.[4]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Hit the Lights"4:15
2."The Mechanix"4:28
3."Phantom Lord"4:59
4."Jump in the Fire"4:40
5."Motorbreath"3:05
6."No Remorse"6:23
7."Seek and Destroy"6:51
8."Am I Evil?" (Diamondhead cover)7:50
9."Metal Militia"5:59

length - 52:38

Personnel

  • James Hetfield - vocals, rhythm guitar
  • Dave Mustaine - lead guitar, backing vocals
  • Ron McGovney - bass guitar
  • Lars Ulrich - drums

Megaforce demo

This demo was recorded on March 16, 1983 and was the last demo recorded with Dave Mustaine[5]. The demo was designed to introduce Cliff to potential record labels and landed the band a deal with Megaforce Records. The demo was also played live on KUSF FM in San Francisco. It contained two new songs which had not been previously released. The demo received several names including The Megaforce Demo (due to it landing a deal with Megaforce Records), The KUSF Demo (due to it being played on KUSF FM) and The Whiplash/No Remorse Demo.

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Whiplash"4:12
2."No Remorse"5:38

length - 9:50

Personnel

  • James Hetfield - vocals, rhythm guitar
  • Dave Mustaine - lead guitar, backing vocals
  • Cliff Burton - bass guitar, backing vocals
  • Lars Ulrich - drums

Ride the Lightning demos

This demo was recorded on October 24, 1983 and contained the original material Metallica had written that did not make it onto Kill 'Em All. Both "Ride the Lightning" and "When Hell Freezes Over" (later re-named "The Call of Ktulu") were partially written by Dave Mustaine. Both "Fight Fire with Fire" and "Ride the Lightning" had been changed from their original version due to input from Cliff Burton. All four songs appeared on the band's second album Ride the Lightning. The four demos for Ride the Lightning were recorded at the expense of Metallica's European record label, Music for Nations, at the same time the band recorded versions of "Seek and Destroy" and "Phantom Lord" to be used as fake "live" b-sides for the "Whiplash" and "Jump in the Fire" singles.[6] In 2005 several other re-recorded demos surfaced on bootlegs. Out of the seven demos that surfaced, only "Trapped Under Ice" was confirmed as an official demo.

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Fight Fire with Fire"4:45
2."Ride the Lightning"6:24
3."Creeping Death"6:50
4."When Hell Freezes Over"8:17

length - 26:26

Personnel

  • James Hetfield - vocals, rhythm guitar
  • Kirk Hammett - lead guitar
  • Cliff Burton - bass guitar, backing vocals
  • Lars Ulrich - drums

Master of Puppets demos

This demo was recorded on July 14, 1985 and was essentially a rehearsal more than it was a demo. The demo included five songs that were included on their next album Master of Puppets.

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Battery" (Instrumental)5:23
2."Battery"4:43
3."Disposable Heroes" (Instrumental)9:13
4."Disposable Heroes"9:15
5."Master of Puppets" (Instrumental)8:51
6."Welcome Home/Orion" (Instrumental)9:38
7."Welcome Home/Orion"9:38

length - 55:59

Personnel

  • James Hetfield - vocals, rhythm guitar
  • Kirk Hammett - lead guitar
  • Cliff Burton - bass guitar, backing vocals
  • Lars Ulrich - drums

...And Justice for All demos

This demo was recorded in 1988 and included early, shorter versions of songs which later appeared on the band's fourth album ...And Justice for All. The intro to "Blackened" on this demo is an unreversed version, unlike the reversed version that appeared on ...And Justice for All. Also, "The Frayed Ends of Sanity" is recorded with gibberish sung in place of most lyrics (with the exception of the chorus' "Frayed ends of sanity/Hear them calling me"), although the final version of the song contained lyrics. "Eye of the Beholder" had two different demo versions, however there are few differences between the two besides running time. Most demo versions of this album do not include both takes of the song.

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Blackened" (Forward Intro)0:36
2."Blackened"5:57
3."...And Justice for All"8:14
4."Eye of the Beholder"8:14
5."One"7:00
6."The Shortest Straw"6:28
7."Harvester of Sorrow"5:37
8."The Frayed Ends of Sanity"7:30
9."To Live Is to Die" (Instrumental)9:57
10."Dyers Eve"5:35

length - 62:03

Personnel

  • James Hetfield - vocals, rhythm guitar
  • Kirk Hammett - lead guitar
  • Jason Newsted - bass guitar, backing vocals
  • Lars Ulrich - drums

Demo Magnetic

Metallica's ninth studio album, Death Magnetic, had all its songs released as demos, recorded between November 2005 - January 2007. The demos were included on a bonus disc titled Demo Magnetic, released with a different "experience" version of Death Magnetic. The track listing order remained the same. All music was written by Metallica, while all lyrics were written by James Hetfield.

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."That Was Just Your Life"7:11
2."The End Of The Line"7:35
3."Broken, Beat & Scarred"6:13
4."The Day That Never Comes"8:15
5."All Nightmare Long"7:59
6."Cyanide"6:32
7."The Unforgiven III"7:51
8."The Judas Kiss"7:56
9."Suicide And Redemption" (Instrumental)9:31
10."My Apocalypse"5:19

Personnel

References

  1. ^ http://www.metallica.com/timeline.asp Metallica.com timeline
  2. ^ http://www.metallicaworld.co.uk/demos.htm
  3. ^ http://www.metallicaworld.co.uk/demos.htm
  4. ^ http://www.metal-archives.com/release.php?id=4243
  5. ^ http://www.metallica.com/timeline.asp Metallica.com timeline
  6. ^ http://www.metallica.com/timeline.asp Metallica.com timeline
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