METALLICA KILL 'EM ALL SEALED 1983 Vinyl Record LP USA Megaforce MRI 069

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Up for bid is an Original 1983 Metallica Kill 'Em All Factory Sealed Vinyl Record LP USA  Megaforce MRI 069.      

Label: Megaforce Records

Product Code: MRI 069

Format: Virgin Vinyl LP - Original Factory Sealed

RECORD CONDITION:

THE VIRGIN VINYL ALBUM IS STILL ORIGINAL FACTORY SEALED.

COVER CONDITION:

COVER IS STILL SEALED AND COVERED IN ITS ORIGINAL FACTORYSHRINK WRAP. (See pics)

 NO OTHER IMPERFECTIONS ON THE COVER:

No seam splits
No cut-out (drill) holes
No cut-out corners
No saw-marks or indents
No dirt/dust rubbing stains (friction marks caused by rubbing against other covers)
No yellowing from aging
No writing
No stickers or labels
No tape
No warping
No wax, glue, paint or liquid drops on the cover
No glue traces or wax residue. 

Tracks:

Hit The Lights    4:17

The Four Horsemen       7:08

Motor breath     3:03

Jump In The Fire              4:50

(Anesthesia)-Pulling Teeth         3:27

Whiplash            4:06

Phantom Lord   4:52

No Remorse       6:24

Seek & Destroy                6:50

Metal Militia     6:06

Discography About The Record:

Kill 'Em All is the debut studio album by American heavy metal band Metallica, released on July 25, 1983, by the independent label Megaforce Records. Kill 'Em All is regarded as a groundbreaking album for thrash metal because of its precise musicianship, which fuses New Wave of British Heavy Metal riffs with hardcore punk tempos. Its musical approach and lyrics were markedly different from rock's mainstream of the early Eighties and inspired a number of bands who followed in similar manner. The album did not enter the Billboard 200 until 1986, when it peaked at number 155, following Metallica's commercial success with its third studio album Master of Puppets; the 1988 Elektra reissue peaked at number 120. Kill 'Em All was critically praised at the time of its release and in retrospect, and was placed on a few publications' best album lists. It was certified 3× platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in 1999 for shipping three million copies in the United States. The album generated two singles :"Whiplash" and "Jump in the Fire".

After solidifying its lineup with the additions of bassist Cliff Burton and lead guitarist Kirk Hammett, Metallica started playing shows in local clubs in Los Angeles before relocating to San Francisco. Metallica recorded a couple of demos, trying to get attention from club owners. The group's No Life 'til Leather demo (1982) was noticed by Megaforce label head Jon Zazula, who signed them and provided a small budget of $15,000 for recording. The album was recorded in May with producer Paul Curcio at the Music America Studios in Rochester, New York. It was originally intended to be titled Metal Up Your Ass, with cover art featuring a hand clutching a dagger emerging from a toilet bowl. The band was asked to change the name because distributors feared releasing an album with such an offensive title and artwork would diminish its chances of commercial success. Metallica promoted the album on the two-month co-headlining Kill 'Em All for One tour with Raven in the United States. Although the initial shipment was 15,000 copies in the US, the album sold 60,000 copies worldwide by the end of Metallica's Seven Dates of Hell European tour in 1984.

 A brief history of Megaforce records:

MEGAFORCE Records and The Route18 Indoor Market – formerly called, with a touch of hopeful grandeur, the “International Market” – was a downscale flea market, of which several existed in New Jersey.  Kevin Smith’s movie Mallrats prominently featured the nearby Route 1 Flea Market, for instance.  The International Market was basically a large warehouse building with dozens and dozens of stalls selling counterfeit jewelry, socks, T-shirts, cheap kitchenware, tacky framed art and questionable antiques.  There was a food court which specialized in various fried delicacies, and (in my memory at least) a few benches to sit and eat.

Route 18 was a major thoroughfare in East Brunswick. The Brunswick Square Mall and several mini-malls were there – not to mention myriad fast-food joints, outdated strip malls, tiny insurance offices in repurposed houses, diners and warehouse stores.  It’s basically the type of ugly, slightly outdated commercial strip that you think of as being endemic to NJ.

You’d never guess that heavy metal music was basically reinvented along this highway.  But the International Market is where Jonny Zazula opened his Rock ’n Roll Heaven record store opened in late 1981.  He and his wife Marsha lived in Old Bridge, the next town over.  Over the next year, they would start Megaforce Records and release Metallica’s Kill ‘Em All, as well as early works by Mercyful Fate, Venom and Anthrax.  A local group of fans and friends coalesced around the Zazulas and Rock ’n Roll Heaven.  Eventually dubbed the Old Bridge Metal Militia, they’d party and go to shows together .  A tight crew, the Megaforce bands would travel to Old Bridge just to hang out with the locals.

Zazula went on to promote numerous metal shows and build Megaforce into an empire.  Rock ‘n Roll Heaven eventually moved in to its own storefront in Clark, New Jersey.  The Route 18 Indoor Market closed in 2012, and was demolished to make way for a Walmart.  And the Metal Militia still lives: after Hurricane Sandy, its core members got together for charity work, which they continue to this day.

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