Band:	Metallica
Album:	Garage Inc.
Style:	Heavy metal
Release date:	November 24, 1998
A review by:	Pierre Tombale

Disc I
01. Free Speech For The Dumb [Discharge cover]
02. It's Electric [Diamond Head cover]
03. Sabbra Cadabra [Black Sabbath cover]
04. Turn The Page [Bob Seger cover]
05. Die, Die My Darling [The Misfits cover]
06. Loverman [Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds cover]
07. Mercyful Fate Medley [Mercyful Fate cover]
    1 - Satan's Fall
    2 - Curse Of The Pharaohs
    3 - A Corpse Without Soul
    4 - Into The Coven
    5 - Evil
    6 - Satan's Fall
08. Astronomy [Blue Öyster Cult cover]
09. Whiskey In The Jar [Thin Lizzy cover]
10. Tuesday's Gone [Lynyrd Skynyrd cover] [feat. Pepper, Jerry, Sean, "Big" Jim, John, Gary & Les]
11. The More I See [Discharge cover]

Disc II [Compilation]
01. Helpless [Diamond Head cover]
02. The Small Hours [Holocaust cover]
03. The Wait [Killing Joke cover]
04. Crash Course In Brain Surgery [Budgie cover]
05. Last Caress / Green Hell [The Misfits cover]
06. Am I Evil? [Diamond Head cover]
07. Blitzkrieg [Blitzkrieg cover]
08. Breadfan [Budgie cover]
09. The Prince [Diamond Head cover]
10. Stone Cold Crazy [Queen cover]
11. So What [Anti-Nowhere League cover]
12. Killing Time [Sweet Savage cover]
13. Overkill [Motörhead cover]
14. Damage Case [Motörhead cover]
15. Stone Dead Forever [Motörhead cover]
16. Too Late Too Late [Motörhead cover]

Metallica is known as the american legend of thrash metal, with sounds that came from the garage and made into onto the stage with 10.000's of fans watching, listening, screaming for more?

Disc 1: 'The Metallicats covering all your favourites', starting off with 'Free Speech For The Dumb' a real garage sounding thrash metal song, with lyrics that will get on your nerves from second two on, you may think at this point it can only get better and you will be proven right.
The next 10 songs are all high quality covers from noted bands such as Black Sabbath, Danzig, Thin Lizzy, Lynrd Skynrd and more, not very garage, but that makes disc 1 much more smpathetic for me. 'Turn The Page' and 'Whiskey In The Jar' were released as singles,
The latter I think is the best version ever released of this song, really good. But other songs that are well done are: 'It's Electric', Sabbra Cadabbra', 'Die, Die My Darling' and the very dark 'Loverman' originally released by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. As mentioned above, good productions all in the sound you would expect from Metallica (especially when know and like Load and Reload), besides song number one, nothing to complain, but it's of course not the end of the road for Metallica or better say the beginning of the road, as Metallica have done many more covers in the past which will be found on

Disc 2: showing the history of covers done by Metallica in non-chronological order dating back to the year 1984 an episode calling the 'Garage Days Revisited' furthermore the 'Garage Days Re-Revisited '87', 'B-Sides & One Offs '88-'91' and Motorheadache '95. The latter suggests already that this episode is all about covering Motörhead songs, the other episodes contain covers of Diamond Head, Queen and other bands. To finally verify the title 'Garage Inc. these covers are as stated in the booklet: 'Not very produced', 'Not produced' or Roughly produced'. In fact you're gonna have a listen to a garage thrash metal overkill (at least when it comes to the 13th song 'Overkill'). The Motörhead covers I do quite enjoy, beacause they sound like Motörhead themselves sound live and besides them 'Stone Cold Crazy' the others songs are mostly not my thing. 'Helpless' and 'Am I Evil' (cool solo) are ok, but many songs are too much punk-like or unspectecular. Not very worth, in my humble opinion, listening to disc number two. Which of course contributes to the lower rating.

All in all a 6.5, because of song number one on disc 1 and the rather unspectacular disc two. A must for the hardcore Metallica fans, but not too much for me. I easily get bored listening to disc two, mostly for the reason that listening to the songs the niveau of Hetfields voice does not change that very much, so you easily get the impression of listening to the same shit over and over again!

Reviewed by Iron Markus