![]() ![]() Doc McGhee, who managed us through a short minute in the late ’80s, when Jeff was in the band, and he said to us, ‘Metallica gives this impression that they’re fast, but they’re really not that fast.’ And I thought that was a really good observation, because, even ‘Kill ‘Em All’ was slowed down quite a bit compared to the demo tape. The Sick, the Dying and the Dead 2.Life in Hell 3.Night Stalkers (featuring Ice-T) 4.Dogs of Chernobyl 5.Sacrifice 6.Junkie 7. Going more into it, Ellefson recalled what famous manager Doc McGhee thought about it. “I actually remember of ‘Kill ‘Em All’, and he sat there… The day we got the album, we sat there for 38 minutes in complete silence … listening to the ‘Kill ‘Em All’ record. ![]() “When we started, we didn’t… In fact, Dave had come out of Metallica and ‘No Life ‘Till Leather’ demo, and it was slower than that. ![]() He offered (transcript via Ultimate Guitar): And, it turns out that the overall tempo of “Kill ‘Em All” made a huge impact on Megadeth. In a recent appearance on The Delz Show which also featured his Kings of Thrash bandmates, Ellefson was asked whether Megadeth was intended to be the “fastest and heaviest” thrash metal band out there. ![]() Released in 1983, this marked Metallica’s first LP and was the first big thing for them after parting ways with Mustaine. Former Megadeth bassist David Ellefson recently recalled the time when he sat down with Dave Mustaine to listen to Metallica’s debut album “Kill ‘Em All” when it came out. ![]()
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