We all know my opinion on this particular band, well, anyone who has read a couple of my reviews will do anyway!!!!! This is the album that symbolises metallica, and the album that brought them to the plate so to speak.

The 4 band members that produced the Kill Em All included James Hetfield (vocals and mean guitarist), Kirk Hammett (sublime lead guitarist from the school of Satriani), Lars Ulrich (insane drummer can't sing, but can't stop singing) and the man that a tribute must seriously go out to for being a part of making the metallica truck roll, and he is Cliff Burton (Supreme Bassist), who was tragically killed when the band's coach crashed.

Back the album.....

Next up is my personal favourite on the album, The Four Horsemen, again, superfast, and super hard hitting, but then that is what this album is all about. The song tells of the Four Horsemen of Apocolypse, and has a multitude of guitar solos, this seems almost like the song that sybolises the early days of the band, and is almost the song that their other albums tries to compete with as they matured, they have almost tried to keep that Horsemen style of speed and weight in their music, albeit on a more mellow plain these days.

Jump in the Fire is what Hetfield is good at, making vocals sound like they have balls basically. He places more emphasis on the words he sings, similair in many ways to "Aint My Bitch" (Reload), where he sings it as "Aint my biiiiiiittcccchhhhaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh", the vocals have that little bit extra. Good song, one of the best ones on the album. The guitar work throughout this album is of an extremely high level.

Whiplash. We are back to the norm again with whiplash, high speed true thrash, and a complete contradiction to the previous track. Whiplash is another song that people think of along with seek and destroy and four horsemen, it has become one of the more well known earlier metallica songs, and it is deservedly so.

Seek and Destroy. Righty, here we go, now this is an excellent song, and one that in recent times I have listened to over and over again, I just have an addiction to the opening guitar riff, I don't know why, it is almost like the effect that the opening to sweet child o mine (guns n roses) has on me, the power that the solo creates for the rest of the song is magnificent. Powerful vocals, even for someone who looks like they are struggling at the time to grow facial hair, an excellent effort and an influential song on their future few albums. The song also has guitar solos within it, aswell as a mean rhythm line.

This entire album is amazing, even though it takes a little getting used to, once you have gotten used to it though, get ready, because you won't look at this new school metal stuff in the same light again, because you will have seen the masters of the old school performing the original form of speed/death metal, to me, there just is no other comparison. Bands such as Korn ad Slipknot, who screech down the microphone, and then have the nerve to call themselves a metal band, this album puts them to shame, it is faster than the likes of Korn and Slipknot, the vocals can actually be heard, and to be honest, the album itself quite simply has a bigger set of testicles than anything those 2 will ever produce!!!