Kill ’Em All

~ Release group by Metallica

Wikipedia

Kill 'Em All is the debut studio album by the American heavy metal band Metallica, released on July 25, 1983, through the independent label Megaforce Records. After forming in 1981, Metallica began by playing shows in local clubs in Los Angeles. They recorded several demos to gain attention from club owners and eventually relocated to San Francisco to secure the services of bassist Cliff Burton. The group's No Life 'til Leather demo tape (1982) was noticed by Megaforce label head Jon Zazula, who signed them and provided a 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. Zazula convinced the band to change the name because distributors feared that 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 English heavy metal band Raven in the US. The album also generated two singles: "Whiplash" and "Jump in the Fire". 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. 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 has since been regarded as a groundbreaking album for thrash metal, because of its "precise musicianship, which fused new wave of British heavy metal riffs with hardcore punk tempos". It was also retrospectively placed on a few publications' best album lists. The album's musical approach and lyrics were markedly different from rock's mainstream of the early 1980s and inspired a number of bands who followed in a similar manner. It was certified 3× Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in 1999 for shipping three million copies in the United States.

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Album

ReleaseArtistFormatTracksCountry/DateLabelCatalog#Barcode
Official
Kill ’Em AllMetallica12" Vinyl10
  • US1983-07-25
Megaforce RecordsMRI 069[none]
Kill ’Em AllMetallica12" Vinyl10
Roadrunner RecordsRR 9902
Kill ’Em AllMetallica12" Vinyl10
Music for NationsMFN 7[none]
Kill ’Em AllMetallicaCassette10
Elektra (1950–1989, revived 2009‐06‐01; read annotations before use)60766-4075596076647
Kill ’Em All = 血染めの鉄鎚Metallica2×12" Vinyl6 + 4
NEXUS (King Records’ progressive rock label, Japanese music only since 2001; ATTN Discogs users, read the annotation!)K25P 438[none]
Kill ’Em AllMetallica12" Vinyl10
Music for NationsMFN 7 P
Kill ’Em All (printed in England (printed in the booklet), no barcode)MetallicaCD10
Music for NationsCD MFN 7[none]
Kill ’Em All (manufactured in U.K. (printed in booklet), no barcode)MetallicaCD10
Music for NationsCD MFN 7[none]
Kill ’Em All (direct metal mastered double LP)Metallica2×12" Vinyl6 + 4
Music for NationsMFN 7 DM5016583100735
Kill ’Em AllMetallicaCD10
Megaforce RecordsMRI CD 069[none]
Kill ’Em AllMetallicaCD10
  • CA1988-01-19
Elektra (1950–1989, revived 2009‐06‐01; read annotations before use)CD 60766075596076623
Kill ’Em AllMetallicaCD12
  • US1988-01-19
Elektra (1950–1989, revived 2009‐06‐01; read annotations before use)60766-2, 9 60766-2075596076623
Kill ’Em AllMetallicaCD12
  • JP1988-11-21
CBS/Sony (imprint used in Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia 1968–1991; also used in Spain until 1997)25DP 53394988009629056
Kill ’Em AllMetallicaCD12
Elektra (1950–1989, revived 2009‐06‐01; read annotations before use)E2-60766 - 558247T075596076623
Kill ’Em AllMetallica12" Vinyl12
Elektra (1950–1989, revived 2009‐06‐01; read annotations before use)E1-60766[none]
Kill ’Em AllMetallicaCD12
PolyGram, Vertigo (originally a British rock label; German since 1998)838 142-2042283814226
Kill ’Em AllMetallicaCD10
Vertigo (originally a British rock label; German since 1998)838 142-2042283814226
Kill ’Em AllMetallica12" Vinyl10
Vertigo (originally a British rock label; German since 1998)838 142-1042283814219
Kill ’Em AllMetallicaCD10
Vertigo (originally a British rock label; German since 1998)838 142-2042283814226
Kill ’Em AllMetallicaCassette10
Vertigo (originally a British rock label; German since 1998)838 142-4042283814240
Kill ’Em AllMetallicaCD10
Vertigo (originally a British rock label; German since 1998)838 142-2042283814226
Kill ’Em AllMetallicaCD10
Music for NationsCD MFN 75016583100728
Kill ’Em All (made in W Germany (printed on the cd matrix))MetallicaCD10
Vertigo (originally a British rock label; German since 1998)838 142-2042283814226
Kill 'Em AllMetallicaCD10
Vertigo (originally a British rock label; German since 1998)838 142-2, CDEPR 11767509967211762
Kill ’Em AllMetallicaCD10
  • JP1992-02-21
Sony Records (Japanese imprint)SRCS 57774988009577722
Kill ’Em All (matrix / runout: #920121K CD-60766 MFG BY CINRAM)MetallicaCD12
Elektra (1950–1989, revived 2009‐06‐01; read annotations before use)CD 60766075596076623
Kill ’Em AllMetallicaVinyl10
Vertigo (originally a British rock label; German since 1998)838 142-1042283814219
Kill ’Em AllMetallicaCD10
Vertigo (originally a British rock label; German since 1998)838 142-2042283814226
Kill ’Em AllMetallicaCassette10
Vertigo (originally a British rock label; German since 1998)838 142-4042283814240
Kill 'Em AllMetallicaCD10
Elektra (1950–1989, revived 2009‐06‐01; read annotations before use)60766-2, 9 60766-2075596076623
Kill ’Em AllMetallicaCD10
  • US1995-06-20
Elektra (1950–1989, revived 2009‐06‐01; read annotations before use)9 60766-2075596076623
Kill ’Em AllMetallicaCD10
  • JP2003-11-06
Sony Music Japan International Inc. (Do not use as a label, see the annotation.)SICP 4754547366012927
Kill ’Em AllMetallicaDigital Media12
  • CA2006-07-25
Kill ’Em AllMetallicaCD10
  • JP2006-08-09
Vertigo (originally a British rock label; German since 1998)UICR-10524988005440013
Kill ’Em AllMetallica12" Vinyl10
  • US2008-04-15
Warner Bros. Records (1958–2019; “WB” logo, with or without “records” beneath or on banner across)343612-1093624990932
Kill ’Em AllMetallica2×Vinyl6 + 4
  • XE2008-05-16
  • GB2008-06-02
Universal Music Group International (manages UMG’s offices in most countries outside of North America)0600753085271600753085271
Kill ’Em AllMetallicaSHM-CD10
  • JP2008-09-12
Vertigo (originally a British rock label; German since 1998)UICY-910694988005530462
Kill ’Em AllMetallicaSHM-CD10
  • JP2010-09-22
Vertigo (originally a British rock label; German since 1998)UICY-946624988005628626
Kill ’Em AllMetallicaCD10
Blackened (Metallica’s own imprint)BLCKND003-2856115004477
Kill ’Em All (Metallica store / remastered)MetallicaDigital Media10
  • XW2016-03-08
Blackened (Metallica’s own imprint)[none]
Kill ’Em All (Remastered)MetallicaDigital Media10
Blackened (Metallica’s own imprint)602547914026
Kill ’Em All (remastered 2016)MetallicaCD10
  • XE2016-04-15
  • GB2016-04-15
Blackened (Metallica’s own imprint), Megaforce Records00602547885272602547885272
Kill ’Em All (remastered)メタリカDigital Media10
  • JP2016-04-15
EMI (EMI Records, since 1972)00602547914057
Kill ’Em All (remastered)MetallicaDigital Media10
  • JP2016-04-15
602547914071
Kill ’Em All (deluxe edition, Metallica store)Metallica6×Digital Media10 + 12 + 3 + 13 + 7 + 13
  • US2016-04-15
Blackened (Metallica’s own imprint)[none]
Kill ’Em AllMetallica12" Vinyl10
  • US2016-04-15
Blackened (Metallica’s own imprint)BLCKND003R-1858978005035
Kill ’Em All (deluxe edition)Metallica4×12" Vinyl + 5×CD + DVD10 + 7 + 5 + 3 + 10 + 2 + 13 + 7 + 13 + 10
  • US2016-04-15
Blackened (Metallica’s own imprint)BLCKND003RD-1858978005042
Kill ’Em AllMetallica4×12" Vinyl + 5×CD + DVD10 + 7 + 5 + 3 + 10 + 2 + 13 + 7 + 13 + 11
  • US2016-04-15
Blackened (Metallica’s own imprint)BLCKND003RD-1858978005042
Kill ’Em AllMetallicaCD10
  • US2016-04-15
Blackened (Metallica’s own imprint)BLCKND003R-1858978005134
Kill ’Em All (remastered deluxe edition)Metallica5×Digital Media10 + 12 + 12 + 7 + 13
  • US2016-04-15
Blackened (Metallica’s own imprint)858978005172
Kill ’Em AllMetallica12" Vinyl10
Blackened (Metallica’s own imprint)00602547885289602547885289
Kill ’Em AllMetallica5×Digital Media10 + 2 + 13 + 7 + 13
Blackened (Metallica’s own imprint)[none]
Kill ’Em AllMetallicaSHM-CD10
  • JP2018-04-13
Blackened (Metallica’s own imprint)UICR-11374988031272596
Kill ’Em All (pre-1996 PMDC BIEM STEMRA)MetallicaCD10Vertigo (originally a British rock label; German since 1998)838 142-2042283814226
Kill ’Em AllMetallicaCD10Roadrunner RecordsRR 34 9902[none]
Kill ’Em AllMetallicaCD10Roadrunner RecordsRR 9902 2016861990220
Kill ’Em All (printed in England (printed on the back))MetallicaCD10Music for NationsCD MFN 75016583100728
Kill ’Em AllMetallicaCD12Elektra (1950–1989, revived 2009‐06‐01; read annotations before use)60766-2, 9 60766-2075596076623
Kill ’Em All (remastered 2016, Metallica Store)MetallicaDigital Media10Blackened (Metallica’s own imprint)

Relationships

associated singles/EPs:Jump in the Fire
covers:A Tribute to Kill ’Em All by Various Artists (add compilations to this artist)
live performances:2013-06-08: Orion Music + More, Detroit, MI, USA
included in:Limited‐Edition Vinyl Box Set
The Metallica Collection
part of:Rye Coalition's 10 Albums (number: 5) (order: 5)
Rolling Stone: The 100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time (number: 35) (order: 35)
Rolling Stone: 100 Best Debut Albums of All Time: pub_2022-07-01 (number: 83) (order: 83)
Discogs:https://www.discogs.com/master/6387 [info]
lyrics page:https://genius.com/albums/Metallica/Kill-em-all [info]
other databases:https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/metallica/kill_em_all/ [info]
https://www.musik-sammler.de/album/1419/ [info]
https://www.offiziellecharts.de/album-details-10893 [info]
https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=19917 [info]
Allmusic:https://www.allmusic.com/album/mw0000651567 [info]
Wikidata:Q182826 [info]