It was released as THE $5.98 EP on cassette and record and was also released on CD as THE $9.98 CD. Wall makes a couple of howling mistakes, both owing to his being from Britain: First, he claims that the GARAGE DAYS RE-REVISITED EP was released as THE $9.98 EP in America. And what a difference that could have made for Metallica's future development. But it would have been great if Metallica challenged the audience with Death, Cannibal Corpse, or Morbid Angel as an opening band. I really like both Queensryche and The Cult, and I enjoyed those shows. Wall helped answer a question that always bothered me: When they got to be arena headliners, why did Metallica have Queensryche and The Cult open for them? Why didn't Metallica take a page from Ozzy's playbook and have an opening band that was more underground and extreme? The answer: both Queensryche and The Cult were represented by Metallica's management, QPrime. Now that really would have made for some bitter rivalries in the thrash world! What would have happened to Lars? Wall doesn't speculate, but I'd wager he would have gone to Dave and joined up with Megadeth. The speculation that Dave Lombardo from Slayer would have been brought in to replace Lars seems spot on, as Lombardo was particularly unhappy with his bandmates at that time. Unlike McIver or any previous biographer, Wall spends some time discussing the rumor that shortly prior to Cliff's death, Cliff and James had seriously discussed replacing Lars. Wall sees more value in it, though he is unduly negative on DEATH MAGNETIC. McIver doesn't like much of Metallica's work after AND JUSTICE FOR ALL. And before that, read Wall's ENTER NIGHT for an up-to-date biography of the band and for more even handed musical criticism. If you have not read McIver's books, then be sure to read TO LIVE IS TO DIE for an account of Cliff. You don't need to read this book if you have already read Joel McIver's masterful books, JUSTICE FOR ALL: THE TRUTH ABOUT METALLICA and TO LIVE IS TO DIE: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF METALLICA'S CLIFF BURTON. Enter Night follows the band through tragedy and triumph, from the bus crash that killed their bassist Cliff Burton in 1986 to the 2004 documentary Some Kind of Monster, and on to their current status as the leaders of the Big Four festival that played to a million fans in Britain and Europe and continues in the U.S. He tells the story of how a tennis-playing, music-loving Danish immigrant named Lars Ulrich created a band with singer James Hetfield and made his dreams a reality. Mick Wall's thoroughly researched, insightful work is enriched by his interviews with band members, record company execs, roadies, and fellow musicians. Until now there hasn't been a critical, authoritative, in-depth portrait of the band. Their music has extended its reach beyond rock and metal, and into the pop mainstream, as they went from speed metal to MTV with their hit single "Enter Sandman". Inventors of thrash metal-Slayer, Anthrax and Megadeth followed-it was always Metallica who led the way, who pushed to another level, who became the last of the superstar rockers.Metallica is the fifth-largest selling artist of all time, with 100 million records sold worldwide. They are Metallica, the most influential heavy metal band of the last thirty years.As Led Zeppelin was for hard rock and the Sex Pistols were for punk, Metallica became the band that defined the look and sound of 1980s heavy metal. Then their singer went into rehab and they almost fell apart. As grunge threatened to overtake them, they reinvented themselves. Their bassist died and they survived to became the biggest-selling band in the world. The music they played-heavy metal mixed with punk attitude-became its own genre: thrash. Their roots lie in the heavy rock of 70s groups like Deep Purple.
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