No Life 'Til Leather-06-Jump in the Fire

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

[ork476]

I've got a copy of the original demo from my uncle. Still in the original package. Never opened. .

[DementedChicken100]

This is what James sounded like before he turned into a werewolf.

[Chickenpatty878]

Mustaine's lyrics were awful...

[badassebac]

greit uncle u have there

[CthulhuDarkLord]

@poshi12 How could it? This actually sounds good, if motley crue were involved it would suck...

[voodoolord]

you can really hear Mustain there.

[poshi12]

hahahaha sounds like motley cru and metallica all in one. 

[URIBENFILM]

@ork476 make a video and show it to us.

[loonie26]

@Trollscience1 about 17-18, 

[AnamariaOcampo99]

@DementedChicken100 HAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA, LOL

[harrycox4]

It's just not as heavy when you turn on the snowflake feature