Metallica: The Mechanix

Vocals: James Hetfield
Drums: Lars Ulrich
Lead Guitar: Dave Mustaine
Bass: Ron McGovney
Date: April 82
Recorded in Ron's Garage: 13004 Curtis & King Road, Norwalk, CA

Power Metal

"We recorded that demo in my garage on a 4-track. The four songs were Hit The Lights , The Mechanix , Jump In The Fire , and Motorbreath - which were all originals. Those songs were later re-recorded on the demo called No Life Til Leather . James sang differently on it, like on Jump In The Fire he would hold the note on the chorus. He was trying to be like the singer Sean Harris from DIAMOND HEAD, but he later figured that he didn't sound like Sean Harris so he decided to sing gruffer. It's funny how that demo was labeled the Power Metal demo. The story is, I went to make Metallica business cards to send to the club promoters along with our demo. The card was supposed to just have the 'Metallica' logo and a contact number. But I thought it looked too plain and decided it should say something under the logo. I didn't want to put 'hard rock' or 'heavy metal', so I coined the term Power Metal, I thought it had a nice ring to it. No band had used that term before as far as I knew. I remember bringing the business cards to the band and Lars got so pissed off at me. He said, 'What did you do! What the hell is Power Metal ?! I can't believe you did such a stupid thing! We can't use these cards with the words Power Metal on it!'. So, that's how that tape became known as the Power Metal demo."

Ron, fall 1996 SHOCKWAVES

Some versions of the 2 CDs bootleg "The Apocalypse" contains fake versions of these demos. They are actually speeded up songs taken from No Life 'Til Leather.

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[MrYngwie88]

without mustaine they should not go so far he created much of tnier riffs he was too good to be in there he is a fuckin genuis

[ABOlsen69666]

I think these lyrics ore sooo funny.

[calypsocoral]

@MrYngwie88 They also had Cliff. There wasn't room enough for 2 musical genii in one band!

[JeffHtun]

@pontiacslut "We were destined for greatness, just not together"-Dave Mustaine

[monstabud1]

you make my driveshaft crank,

you make my pistons bulge,

you made my ballbearings melt from the heat!!

o'yeahhh i yeahhhh....

fckn gold!!!!!!

[pontiacslut]

awsome. to bad dave stil is not with the band. they would have made some good music.

[OnlyUseMaSpaz]

@MrYngwie88 He made two of their riffs.

[metalzombiebass]

@npla8435 no, if dave calm down and start analyze he would me songs that are suitable for the band, if he was calm they could make epic song....you could say "dave will do this with metallica, "dave would do that...but the point is he cant cos metallica is not dave,metallica is metallica

[npla8435]

@metalzombiebass I know the story. My THEORY is just that had he not gotten kicked out for his alcohol problem, Dave would have eventually gotten bored in Metallica because he was much more skilled then James and Lars. I guarantee you that Lars can't keep up with a drum track like "Washington Is Next!" Metallica's really good, and I'd kill to see them live, I just like Megadeth more.

[metalzombiebass]

@NerfHerderD17 yeah right, and black sabbath play pop ¬¬