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Metallica-Garage Bands Rule! Before all the fame and fortune, before all the million selling album and sold out world tours, Metallica was just another band, playing cover tunes in bars out in california.it fact, at their very first live pervormance in anaheim, back on march 14, 1982, they played just three original and seven cover song, one of the songss, "Am I Evil" is still used by the band Diamond Head in 1980. When Metallica gpt their start back in 1981, they learned songs from the massive record collection of drumer lars ulrich, Bron in copenhagen, Denmark, Lars was the song of Danish tennis pro torben ulrich. He was attending concert since the age of five, seeing the rolling stones and Deep purple before he turned nine. He met James Hetfield in high school and the Decided to start band. Soon they were joined by guitarist Dave Mustaine And Bassist Ron McGovney, they released a demo cassete in 1982 titled " No Life'Til Leather" that quickly became a smash hit among tape trades across America. The tape sparked interest by several major labels and the band signed with Elektra in early 1983 and released their awesome debut, "kill em All". Internal tension caused Mustaine and MgGovney to leave the group. Their replacements were cliff burton o bass and kirk Hammett on Guitar. It was time to record another album, but the band just wasn't ready for the strain. instead, they opted to just record some of their favorite cover tunes, They picked " Am I Evil" by ther favorite band, Diamond Head and "Blitzkrieg" which was by the english band of the same name. A tour of england was planned to promote their new album "Ride The Lighting" They issued the single " Creeoing Death " to foreign audiences to promote the tour and put these two cover song on the "B" side as a gift to their fans abroad. While on the overseas tour, Cliff Burton was killed when their bus overturned in sweden.