Metallica Presentation for Rock & Roll History class

1. #Kill Em
All#

2. Who is METALLICA?
Kirk Hammett
Lars Ulrich
James
Hetfield
Cliff Burton

3. Early Metallica
• Name from “Encyclopedia Metallica”
• Originally Dave Mustane was in band prior
to Hammett replacing him
• Quickly pieced together “Hit the Lights” for
Brian Slagel‟s Metal Massacre mixtape
• No “Life til Leather” demo tape
• Left L.A. for San Francisco bay area scene
• Cliff burton joins permanently upon
relocation

4. *The Juggernaut Grows...
Dominatio
• Metallica‟s goal from creation:
• Dave partied to much… had n go.
to
• Band rewrote “mechanix” on their demo to
“Four horsemen” on kill „em all
• Band finds niche: be metallica not motley
crue
• Underground hit gets attention of Elektra
Records

5. * PRODUCTION & RE-RELEASE *
• Originally Released on megaforce in 1983
• Rereleased after Ride the Lightning went
GOLD
• Elektra remastered it to try to profit on
Thrash Metal movement

6. #Boosting Associated Genres#
• Re-release sparked interest in
underground genres:
• Power Metal
• Thrash Metal!
• DID NOT SPAWN GENREs!

7. Plagued
Suicidal Tendacies Insanity
Testament
Anthrax Kreator
Slaughter Megadeth
Thrash Metal
EXODUS Toxic Holoca
Dirty Rotten Imbeciles
Nuclear Assault Slayer
Sodom
Voivod

8. What is Thrash
THRASH METAL!!!!
#Fast paced percussion
Hardcore
NWOBHM
New Wavecomplexity Punk:
and of British Heavy of
NWOBHM
Metal:
Dead
+
Judas Priest
Saxon
Kennedys
*power, anger
Iron Maiden and speed
Angel Witch
of punk Circle Jerks
Witchfinder General
Bad Brains
Bad Religion
Agnostic

9. Noble Beast
Helloween
Manowar Iced Eart
POWER METAL
Jag Panzer
Hammerfall Turisas
Blind Guardian
Brocas Helm

10. Power Metal is…
• Faster and more Riff driven than
NWOBHM
• More fantasy based than Thrash Metal
lyrically
• Clean singing vocals rather than shouting
• More “Traditional” style of metal
• No punk influence

11. The impact of this album on
the world of metal
• Kicked out Dave Mustane for being an
alcoholic after the release of ‚No
Life Til Leather‛ demo
• Mustane created Megadeth
• Exodus became legends in their own
right with ‚bonded by blood‛
• Over night Kill ‘em All & ride the
lightning decimated glam metal
• Opened the door for european Power
metal to gain mainstream popularity

12. Well, Cliff Died
• … or rather got crushed by a tour
bus
Kinda like that 

13. Let the ego’s roam
• After Cliff died, they hired a much abused
bassist named Jason Newsted
• Did “…and justice for all” mixed out bass
• Could hear Newsted in Black album
• After black album progressively became less
“metal” culminating in Load & Reload Albums
• In 2000 lawsuit with napster, online tape
trading became “traitors to metal”
• After napster trial, metallica made st. anger
and death magnetic

14. #Their Legacy#
• Brought about the death of Glam Metal (Poison,
Dangerous Toys, Whitesnake, Bulletboys, Motley Crue)
• Brought Power Metal and Thrash Metal into the homes
of billions leading the way for a new era of metal
• Without metallica chances are you wouldn‟t know of
slayer, mercyful fate, rammstein, cannibal corpse, or
pantera
• Fell victim to becoming too big and became detached
from their genre for greater popular appeal, abandoned
metal in the 90s
• Ultimately became what they Destroyed in the first place,
ironic

15. Giving Credit where it is
due
• Sound of the Beast, The Complete
Head Banging History of Heavy
Metal. Ian Christe
• Mapofmetal.com
• www. Wikipedia.org *naturally*
• www. Metal-archives.com
• dafont.com