''Garage Inc.'' is a

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by American heavy metal band

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. It was released on November 24, 1998, through

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. It includes cover songs, B-side covers, and ''

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'', which had gone out of print since its original release in 1987. The title is a combination of ''Garage Days Revisited'' and Metallica's song "Damage, Inc.", from ''

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''. The album's graphical cover draws heavily from the 1987 EP. The album features songs by artists that have influenced Metallica, including many bands from

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bands and popular songs.

Production

The day after Metallica finished the North American leg of the

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in San Diego's Coors Amphitheatre, they hit the studio to start recording a new album of cover versions. As

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explained, the band wanted to do something different after "three pretty serious albums in a row, starting with the Black album and then ''

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'' and '' ReLoad''", and the process would be easier by working with covers, especially as the band had a tradition of taking other people's songs and "turn them into something very Metallica, different from what the original artist did". Given that the band had recorded many covers that were spread across various releases, such as B-sides of their singles and the 1987 EP ''

'', the band would "put them all in a nice little packaging for easy listening" along with the newly recorded cover versions, chosen through a group decision. Only one of the eleven songs in the "New Recordings '98" disk was not done in the three-week sessions, a version of

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's "

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" the band recorded for a radio broadcast along with friends such as

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and

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Garage Barrage Tour

Metallica played five shows in November 1998 to support the album's release. Embracing the cover song concept, the band's setlist consisted entirely of cover songs from throughout their career. Metallica's own music was presented by the opening band, Battery, a Metallica

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Packaging

The cover for ''Garage Inc.'' had an

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photograph of Metallica dressed as mechanics. The band wanted the booklet to hold a detailed account of the contents of the project, and designer Andy Airfix was allowed to search through Ulrich's catalogue of Metallica memorabilia in San Francisco to create a 32-page booklet. Airfix also did the back cover, where the front of ''Garage Days Re-Revisited'' was modified with headshots of Metallica in 1998 and the track list written on

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Reception

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'' (12/10/98, print edition, p. 122) – 4 Stars (out of 5) – "Gloriously hard as the album is, you can't miss Metallica's good natured side coming through." *''

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'' (12/18/98, p. 84) – "We'll have to wait until Metallica's next 'proper' album to find out if this trip to the garage recharges their batteries. Still, all things considered, Garage Inc. is an intermittently exhilarating joyride." – Rating: B− *''

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'' (12/21/98, p. 29) – "Those who still relate to the adolescent angst of the 'Metallicas' earliest days will find plenty to like on Garage Inc." * In 2005, the album was ranked number 500 in ''

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'' magazine's book of ''The 500 Greatest Rock & Metal Albums of All Time''.

Track listing

Disc one

These tracks (except "Tuesday's Gone"; see below) were recorded in September–October 1998 for the ''Garage Inc.'' album. * "Sabbra Cadabra" also covers part of the Black Sabbath song " A National Acrobat". * "Mercyful Fate" is a medley of the songs "Satan's Fall", "Curse of the Pharaohs", "A Corpse Without Soul", "Into the Coven" and "Evil". * "Tuesday's Gone" was recorded December 18, 1997, during the "Don't Call Us, We'll Call You" radio broadcast on

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. * "The More I See" ends at 03:23 and, after a period of silence, contains a short segment of the

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song "Bridge of Sighs", from the album of the same name, as a hidden track. * "Free Speech for the Dumb", "Loverman", "Astronomy", "The More I See" and "Bridge of Sighs" have never been performed live.

Disc two

These tracks are a collection of B-sides from artists Metallica were inspired by, throughout the early years of the band. * "Last Caress/Green Hell" contains a parody of

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's song "

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" at the outro; Iron Maiden responded to this on a B-side cover of the Montrose song titled "Space Station No. 5". The original CD edition has a mastering error in "Green Hell" at 2:01 where the left channel glitches and is out of sync with the right channel for a second. This error does not exist on the original EP release, nor the remastered EP edition. * "Am I Evil?" and "Blitzkrieg" were originally released in November 1984 as B-sides contained on the "Creeping Death" single. They were later included as bonus tracks on the 1988 Elektra re-issue of Metallica's debut album ''

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''; subsequent re-issues of ''Kill 'Em All'' did not contain the two bonus tracks. * "Breadfan" and "The Prince" were originally released by Metallica in September 1988 as B-sides to the "

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" single. "Breadfan" was also included on the " Eye of the Beholder" single. "The Prince" was also the B-side to the " One" single, as well as the bonus track on the Japanese pressing of '' …And Justice For All''. * "Stone Cold Crazy" was originally released by Metallica in September 1990 on the Rubáiyát: Elektra's 40th Anniversary compilation album, and was later included on the "

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" single. * "So What" and "Killing Time" were originally released by Metallica in November 1991 as B-sides to "The Unforgiven" single. "So What" was also on the "

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" single, as well as the bonus track on the Japanese pressing of ''

''. *"Motörheadache" was recorded live at

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in December, 1995

Personnel

Metallica *

James Hetfield James Alan Hetfield (born August 3, 1963) is an American musician. He is the lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist, co-founder and a main songwriter of heavy metal band Metallica. He is mainly known for his intricate rhythm playing, but occasionall ...

– vocals, rhythm guitar, lead guitar on "Whiskey in the Jar" and "Stone Dead Forever" *

– drums *

Kirk Hammett Kirk Lee Hammett (born November 18, 1962) is an American musician who has been the lead guitarist and a contributing songwriter for heavy metal band Metallica since 1983. Before joining Metallica, he formed and named the band Exodus. In 2003, ...

– lead guitar, backing vocals *

Jason Newsted Jason Curtis Newsted (born March 4, 1963) is an American musician who was the bassist of heavy metal band Metallica from 1986 to 2001. He first performed with thrash metal band Flotsam and Jetsam from 1981 to 1986 before joining Metallica to su ...

– bass, backing vocals *

Cliff Burton Clifford Lee Burton (February 10, 1962 – September 27, 1986) was an American musician who was the bassist for heavy metal band Metallica from 1982 until his death in 1986. He performed on ''Kill 'Em All'' (1983), '' Ride the Lightning'' (1984 ...

– bass on "Am I Evil?" and "Blitzkrieg" Guest musicians on "Tuesday's Gone" *

Pepper Keenan Pepper J. Keenan (born May 8, 1967) is an American guitarist and vocalist, best known for his work with heavy metal bands Corrosion of Conformity and Down. He joined Corrosion of Conformity in 1989, but did not become the lead singer until the ...

– co-lead vocals *

Jerry Cantrell Jerry Fulton Cantrell Jr. (born March 18, 1966) is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter. He is best known as the founder, lead guitarist, co-lead vocalist, and main songwriter of the rock band Alice in Chains. The band rose to internation ...

– guitar *

Sean Kinney Sean Howard Kinney (born May 27, 1966) is an American musician, best known as the drummer and co-founder of the rock band Alice in Chains. Kinney also founded the short-lived supergroup Spys4Darwin, and has collaborated with other artists such a ...

– additional percussion * Jim Martin – guitar *

– harmonica *

– additional guitar *

– banjo Technical personnel Disc I *

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, James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich – production *

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– engineering *Brian Dobbs – additional engineering *Kent Matcke, Leff Lefferts, Chris Manning – assistant engineers *Paul DeCarli, Mike Gillies – digital editing *Randy Staub, Mike Fraser – mixing *

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– mastering Disc II * Tracks 1–5: ** "Not very produced" by Metallica (Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammett, Newsted) ** Csaba "The Hut" Petocz – engineering * Tracks 6–7: ** Metallica (Hetfield, Ulrich, Burton, Hammett), Mark Whitaker – production ** Jeffrey "Nick" Norman – engineering * Tracks 8–9 ** Not produced **

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, Toby "Rage" Wright – engineering **

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– rough mixing * Track 10 ** "Kind of produced" by Metallica (Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammett, Newsted) ** Toby "Rage" Wright – engineering * Tracks 11–12 ** "Roughly produced" by Bob Rock with Hetfield & Ulrich ** Randy Staub – engineering * Tracks 13–16 ** Not produced ** Randy Staub – mixing ** George Marino – remastering *

Andie Airfix Andie Airfix (27 August 1946 – 10 October 2018) was a British graphic designer who created album covers for Black Sabbath, Def Leppard, Judas Priest, Metallica, Philip Lynott, the Rolling Stones, Guns N' Roses, Paul McCartney and Thompson ...

– album design *

– front cover photography, additional photography *

Ross Halfin Ross William Halfin (born 11 August 1957) is a British rock and roll photographer. Since the late 1970s he has worked for some of the biggest acts in rock and heavy metal, including Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, Black Sabbath, The Who, Kiss, Metallica, ...

– back cover photography, additional photography * Mark Leialoha – additional photography *

David Fricke David Fricke is an American music journalist who serves as the senior editor at ''Rolling Stone'' magazine, where he writes predominantly about rock music. One of the best known names in rock journalism, his career has spanned over 40 years. I ...

– liner notes

Charts

Album

Year-end charts

Singles

Sales and certifications

In the U.S., ''Garage Inc.'' sold 426,500 units in the first week of release, making Metallica's fourth straight debut surpassing 400,000 copies. Still, the million-plus record breaking debut of

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' '' Double Live'' made ''Garage Inc.'' land only at second on the ''

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''.

Awards

Grammy Awards

References

External links

Information about the album on the official website
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