Metallica

Credits

Producer

Flemming Rasmussen, Mark Whitaker, Metallica

Written by

Cliff Burton, James Hetfield, Kirk Hammett, Lars Ulrich, Brian Tatler, Sean Harris, Brian Smith, Ian Jones, Jim Sirotto

Engineer

Flemming Rasmussen, Jeffrey Norman

Cut by

Tim Young

Where it leads

One record at a time, and the reason for each step.

Bay Area Thrash Metal

Riffs cut like machine tools, tempos past 200bpm, and a garage circuit that rewrote American metal.