Nio Life 'Til Leather-07-Phantom Lord

No Life 'til Leather is Metallica's widely circulated demo tape featuring Dave Mustaine on lead guitar. All the tracks are early recordings of songs that would later appear on the band's Kill 'Em All album. The track listing on Kill 'Em All is the same as that on the demo tape, save the addition of Cliff Burton's bass solo "(Anesthesia) Pulling Teeth", "Whiplash", "No Remorse" and "The Mechanix" ("The Mechanix" was re-written by Metallica as "The Four Horsemen").

The demo has been re-released twice unofficially, first under the title of Metallica—Bay Area Thrashers, and was alleged to be a live bootleg recording of Metallica in the early days, however all 'live' sounds had been added from various sources including the Metallica video Cliff 'Em All. This was soon discovered by Metallica and all copies were removed from stores. The demo was re-released a second time under the title Metallica—In the Beginning... Live, containing no differences from Metallica-Bay Area Thrashers.

Mustaine recorded his own version of "The Mechanix" on Megadeth's debut album Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good! The demo, along with two other songs, can be found on many peer-to-peer networks under the moniker One Last Visit.


Track listing:
"Hit the Lights" - 4:19
"The Mechanix" - 4:28
"Motorbreath" - 3:18
"Seek & Destroy" - 4:55
"Metal Militia" - 5:17
"Jump in the Fire" - 3:51
"Phantom Lord" - 3:33

Personnel:
James Hetfield vocals, rhythm guitar
Dave Mustaine lead guitar, backing vocals
Ron McGovney bass guitar
Lars Ulrich drums, percussion

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Metallica
• Demo
• No
• Life
• 'Til
• Leather
• Metal
• Thrash
• Speed
• Dave
• Mustaine
• Ron
• Mcgovney
• James
• Hetfield
• Lars
• Ulrich

[xXshanexSCR34MXx]

WTF every video i have been too is all "kirk is better than dave!" "dave is better than kirk!" SHUT UP! metallica is badass! megadeth is badass! they are both incredible guitar players. enjoy the music and keep in mind.. if dave was never kicked out there would be NO megadeth

[11DNA11]

@double42 Rolling Stone magazine also placed Kurt Cobain on that list... I rest my case..

[Leonthekigdommaster]

@xXshanexSCR34MXx and kirk would still be in exodus

[12chapin]

Why isn't this on iTunes



[Megatallica12]

@AzraelX661 ah, well, honestly, it doesn't make a difference, i jsut like Metallica no matter what they're doing.

[AzraelX661]

@Megatallica12 yep, too bad there not like this nowedays tho :(

[Megatallica12]

@AzraelX661 Cuz Early Metallica was hugely influenced by them.

[AzraelX661]

dunno why but the sound of the guitar on the no life 'til leather demo sound a bit like motorhead

[11DNA11]

@paulio4259 Yeah i was shocked at Randy Rhoads' spot on the list. Joel McIver's top 100 list is superior to that :)

[paulio4259]

@11DNA11

Yeah just looked up the list that is one of the worst list I ever seen. I mean Eddie Van Halen at 70, Randy Rhoads at 85, and Tony Iommi at 86. Terrible, terrible list. Surprised Eddie Van Halen wasn't like 5 because everyone seems to think he's the greatest guitarist even though he's not bad, he just seems like he's qualified for the overrated guitarist award if you know what I mean. Didn't even see Marty Friedman, Dave Mustaine, Kerry King, Dimebag, or anyone else good mentioned.

[Fasoun]

Totally agree with xXshanex, what will it bring if we compare all guitar players of every band. Get the hell out of your shell and enjoy the music and don't look for drawbacks of them.....besides that i think kirk hammet is one of the best, and there is plenty of them and if u doubt about it u probably never heard him playing other than from the record....bye bye