Metallica
Garage Inc.

THE REVIEW

In my opinion, Garage Inc. is the only work that stands above the unfortunately numerous avalanches of crap that Metallica managed to release in just seven years. In fact, since the distant 1991, the year the Black Album was released, songs composed of ridiculous and senseless lyrics accompanied by technically inferior music have been written and published, tracks entirely unable to identify with what was the technique of the golden years and unable also to reflect on protest themes for which the Four Horsemen were originally formed. Garage Inc. includes tracks that were recorded on “Garage Days Re-Revisited,” along with many other cover-songs recorded for the occasion.

In the two-CD box set, we find fairly interesting and effortless reinterpretations that bring to mind the aggressiveness that characterized the early '80s Metallica style, as the 'tallica did not simply limit themselves to reproducing the history of Hard Rock and British Heavy Metal piece by piece, instead, each individual track was transported into their style in an accurate and complete way; to testify to this, there is the fact that we find solos and interludes that are highly reworked, quite different from what they were in the original tracks. Moreover, from an instrumental point of view, one notices in some tracks a prominence of the bass, and it gives the impression that the entire structure of the track was developed on the rhythm executed by Newsted's bass and Ulrich's drums.

An album that encapsulates the last fragments of a group that was the spearhead of '80s Thrash Metal.