This album really isn't all that bad! Yes I know I am a metal head and saying new Metallica is good is blasphemy! But fuck that, okay I will admit they have lost there thrashy edge, but it is still good for being hard rock! Garage Inc. was acually one of my top favortie albums of that year. Let me start with the first disk! okay some of these songs are pretty stupid:
Free Speech For the Dumb, The More I See, Loverman, these are all skippers. Yes I realize that these songs have been recorded in the "new" age Metallica but there really not that bad. Covering everything from Black Sabbath's Sabbra Cadabra and Diamon Head's Its Electric. These are the bands that influenced Metallica greatly. Even Turn the Page is done good, not great, but not butchered. The Mercyful Fate melody is the best melody ever, taking all the great Mercyful Fate songs and cramming them into one. Kirk even manages to throw in some well copied solo's of MF. And the BOC cover! How can this album not be great, the riffs of these original songs are done heavier for a more modern age of listeners. The last couple of tracks were taken from the original Garage Days... EP!
The second disk is even better. Most, if not all of this is the old recording. Thrash??? Fuck yeah, Motorhead, Misfits, Diamond Head, come on this is what motivated these guys to come up with some of the greatest albums of all time (ie. Kill 'Em All, Master of Puppets, etc.) Once again, the riffs are nicely taken from the originals and played either at the same level or pumbed up with killer thrash speed! Tired of Metallica's new age and want them to go back to their roots? This disk is there roots!
This album is very important to any Metallica fan. Not only are these covers great, but they are nicelt performed, with little difficulties and crappyness. Over all blend is great, vocals good, guitars good, can't go wrong. And this my fellow metal heads is what got Metallica going! Their influencers! That is why cover albums kick ass, because they open you up to a whole bunch of other kick ass bands!
Track List :
Disc 11. Free Speech for the Dumb (Discharge cover)
2. It's Electric (Diamond Head cover)
3. Sabbra Cadabra (Black Sabbath cover)
4. Turn the Page (Bob Seger cover)
5. Die, Die My Darling (Misfits cover)
6. Loverman (Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds cover)
7. Mercyful Fate (Mercyful Fate cover)
8. Astronomy (Blue Öyster Cult cover)
9. Whiskey in the Jar (Thin Lizzy cover)
10. Tuesday's Gone (Lynyrd Skynyrd cover)
11. The More I See (Discharge cover)
Disc 2
1. Helpless (Diamond Head cover)2. The Small Hours (Holocaust cover)
3. The Wait (Killing Joke cover)
4. Crash Course in Brain Surgery (Budgie cover)
5. Last Caress / Green Hell (Misfits cover)
6. Am I Evil? (Diamond Head cover)
7. Blitzkrieg (Blitzkrieg cover)
8. Breadfan (Budgie cover)
9. The Prince (Diamond Head cover)
10. Stone Cold Crazy (Queen cover)
11. So What (Anti-Nowhere League cover)
12. Killing Time (Sweet Savage cover)
13. Overkill (Motörhead cover)
14. Damage Case (Motörhead cover)
15. Stone Dead Forever (Motörhead cover)
16. Too Late, Too Late (Motörhead cover)
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