Metallica--Live Shit: Binge & Purge (1993)
Rating--7.7
A nice live effort from the world's sudden household name-rockers.
The unit contains three videos, a tour book with various knick-knacks, and
three discs of tracks from the 'Black' album world tour. Nice, but
expensive. True Metallica fans only. (Which there seems to be a lot of lately...)
Of the three discs, the first stands out as the champion. It's good to hear
"Creeping Death," "Wherever I May Roam," "Battery," and "The Four Horsemen"
live, since the only other live tracks available from Metallica are the
b-sides of singles. Did we really need to add "Nothing Else Matters" to
these uptempo tracks?
Hetfield's quirks and crowd rambles are funny
at times, but don't really add anything special. A nice little present is
the track "Justice Meledy" from disc one-- a combination of riffs and verses
off of 'AJFA'. The band has seemed to do this adventure with
most of its catalog in concerts, now that they are moving on to other
"types" of metal...
A nice ride, and the tracks mostly come before the so-called "downward spiral" of
the band... but you gotta be a big fan of the band to own this one---mainly due to price.
TRACK LIST: Disc One: Enter Sandman/Creeping Death/Harvester of Sorrow/Welcome Home
(Sanitarium)/Sad But True/Of Wolf and Man/The Unforgiven/Justice
Meledy/Solos (Bass/Guitar)
Disc Two: Through The Never/For Whom The Bell Tolls/Fade To Black/Master of
Puppets/Seek & Destroy/Whiplash
Disc Three: Nothing Else Matters/Wherever I May Roam/Am I Evil?/Last
Caress/One/Battery/The Four Horsemen/Motorbreath/Stone Cold Crazy
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