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Title: Metallica – Metal Up Your Ass!
Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1982, Metal, Thrash Metal, Los Angeles, CA
Condition: New

Cultural Facts:

1. Public Scandal: Planned as the debut title/cover (a dagger-hand coming out of a toilet). Megaforce balked, so the band’s clapback title became “Kill ’Em All.”

2. Band Drama: Dave Mustaine-era material lives here; he was fired right before the first album run, then recycled parts of that early riff-bank into Megadeth’s launch.

3. Scene Ecology: These tapes moved like contraband through the early-’80s metal underground—dubbed cassettes, pen-pal lists, and scene flyers building a national cult pre–major press.