Kill 'Em All (Remastered)

Metallica makes real good songs 🎸🤘🏼🤘🏼

Best album in my opinion of everything. Very underrated

This album has not aged nearly as well as it follow ups, but it’s still great. In fact, this album is my least favorite of the first 4. The biggest issue with this album is the production. Also, I don’t like Anastasia pulling teeth, it’s a terrible sounding bass solo. It sounds like they recorded it in a cave. But other than that, it’s great. The best song on here is Seek & Destroy!

Classic!

Not One of My Favorites. But Still the Greatest. Songs I Enjoy Such As "Seek & Destroy" "Whiplash" "(Anesthesia) - Pulling Teeth" "Jump In the Fire" & More.

Yayyyy 👍I would strongly recommend this

If you think about when this album came out it is mind blowing. All the songs are good. Four horseman is a masterpiece.

A friend taped two songs from Fingers Metal Shop, Hit the Lights and Jump in the Fire and I knew when I heard it everything had just changed forever...

Kill Em All has not aged quite as well as its follow-ups due to thin production, but even so it’s still a shocking album for 1983. The full throttle speed of a lot of the songs was unheard of in heavy metal back then, and its influence quickly spread amongst the crowd going so far as to force Slayer to change their sound from NWOBHM to thrash. Lest we forget, Dave Mustaine wrote a lot of songs on here including The Four Horsemen (which he’d turn into Mechanix with Megadeth, creating the most divisive debate about which song is better), and therefore he has just as much a hand in the impact of KEA inasmuch as James Hetfield or Lars Ulrich or dare I say Cliff Burton. As a historic record, the album’s ideas were so far ahead of everybody else in metal during a period where it was really either Van Halen (with Dave Roth of course NOT Hagar) or Motley Crüe to choose from. If you wanted heavier you’d have to look very hard because it was mainly British bands that pushed the limits like Judas Priest or Iron Maiden. But after KEA, Motörhead’s idea of fusing metal with fast punk became gospel, leading to most metal becoming more extreme in contrast to the mainstream glam which became more, shall we say, gay. Without KEA, we would not have Ride the Lightning or Master of Puppets’ revolutionary innovations, and possibly no death metal either. The songs sound more in the vein of NWOBHM than later works, but the speed is what makes this purely thrash. It doesn’t pulverize as much as later stuff, but compositionally speaking KEA might be Metallica’s most aggressive release if it wasn’t for the outdated production. If you are starting off listening to Metallica, it wouldn’t hurt to start with this one and work your way up successive albums to get a feel as to what it was first like experiencing Metallica during the heyday of the 80’s, and the changes in both rock and metal alike because of them. I wouldn’t listen to butthurt fans still angry they went mainstream in 1991, because this band has a lot to offer if you’re willing to take the time. Enjoy every Metallica release for what it is and relax.

This is one of the best Metallica albums, and to think that they were like 22 when they made this album, is amazing.