Description

A massive 4 lp set on red vinyls. Limited 210 numbered copies

Metallica’s career can be divided into two parts: Before and after the Black album. Before 1991 they were a band known by many, loved by many, expanding their fan base to the point where they would pack arenas around the world despite their very uncommercial music. After the release of their self titled album they became the band known by everyone everywhere, loved by even more people but also hated by many. Old fans who thought they had sold out and new people from the MTV and radio audience who couldn’t tolerate their heavy sounds unknown in their mediums up to that point. Metallica moved towards the mainstream with their streamlined sound and songs, and mainstream moved towards Metallica, with another noisy phenomenon called Grunge appearing from the underground at the same time. This massive 4 album set was recorded at the Palace in Auburn Hills, Michigan on the 3rd of November 1991 at the beginning of the supporting tour for the Black album. The Wherever We May Roam tour started on the 12th of October 1991 so just a few days into the tour the band still really hadnt had the time to adapt to their newfound mass popularity of even bigger venues. Bigger venues mean more people and more people mean more noise, and attraction to crowd noise leads to crowd-pleasing showmanship. That’s why Seek And Destroy lasts ten minutes longer than three years previously and that’s why there’s the seemingly endless drum solo duet. The set list is a very good combination of the more thrashy pieces of the earlier years and their lighter new stuff. The band is in fine form. They deliver the goods in a tight package to a rapturous audience and just have a lot of fun. This is an important document of a band at the turning point of their career, and mostly a very very enjoyable one. Recommended for every lover of this band

Track list:
1. Ecstacy Of Gold
2. Enter Sandman
3. Creeping Death
4. Harvester Of Sorrow
5. (Welcome Home) Sanitarium
6. Sad But True
7. Wherever I May Roam
8. Bass Solo-Jason Newsted
9. Through The Never
10. The Unforgiven
11. Justice Medley
12. Drum Solo – Lars Ulrich
13. Drum Solo – James Hetfield
14. Guitar And Drum Solo – Kirk Hammet And Lars Ulrich
15. Four Horsemen
16. For Whom The Bell Tolls
17. Fade To Black
18. Whiplash
19. Master Of Puppets with Cat Scratch Fever Teaser
20. Seek And Destroy
21. One
22. Last Caress
23. Am I Evil
24. Battery
25. Stone Cold Crazy