METALLICA's 'No Life 'Till Leather' Was One Of Top-Selling Releases Of 'Record Store Day'

METALLICA celebrated Record Store Day last weekend with the release of an exact duplicate of the band’s 1982 cassette demo tape, “No Life ‘Till Leather”. The limited-edition cassette was made available exclusively in independent record stores on April 18. It features artwork copies from drummer Lars Ulrich’s own personal copy of the original demo, as well as his handwriting.

According to BuzzAngle Music, “No Life ‘Till Leather” was the second-best-selling release for Record Store Day 2015, right behind THE WHITE STRIPES‘ “Get Behind Me Satan”.

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METALLICA said in a statement, “In 1982 we recorded seven songs that became our initial calling card known as ‘No Life ‘Till Leather’, and it led us to our first record deal. The rest, as you some of you may know, is history!” The band added about the new reissue, “We’ve been digging through the archives, gone to the original source material and remastered it to maximize the sound potential for 2015 without altering the original mixes in any way.”

The band also promised that expanded editions of the demo, which has never before been commercially available, will arrive on CD, vinyl and in a collector’s set later this year.

The seven-song tape was recorded with the first lineup of the band that appeared live as METALLICA, including Ulrich, frontman James Hetfield, lead guitarist Dave Mustaine and bassist Ron McGovney.

All the songs on the tape later appeared on the band’s 1983 debut album, “Kill ‘Em All”, including “Hit The Lights”, “Motorbreath”, “Jump In The Fire”, “Seek And Destroy”, “Metal Militia”, “Phantom Lord” and “The Mechanix”, which was renamed “The Four Horsemen” on the album.

The demo reissue is the first step in an extensive series of re-releases that METALLICA plans to undertake. Ulrich told Rolling Stone, “It’s time for us to put out some next-level reissues and do the song and dance of the catalog that everyone else has done.” He added that fans can expect to hear “a lot of goodies that are laying around in cardboard boxes and tape vaults.”

Fonte: Blabbermouth.net