Cataloguing My Metal Collection Pt. 108

ARTIST:  Metallica
ORIGIN:  San Francisco, CA (United States)
TITLE:  Garage Inc.
LABEL:  Vertigo Records
YEAR:  1998
GENRE:  Thrash Metal/Heavy Metal
FAVORITE SONG:  "Blitzkrieg"
NOTES:  This is the double album of covers that Metallica put out.  The first disc is new recordings of songs by artists as diverse as Diamond Head, Bob Seger, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and Blue Oyster Cult.  There were a couple of very good tracks there and it lead to me checking out Misfits, Diamond Head, and Mercyful Fate. Of course the second disc is the highlight here with the covers Metallica had recorded over the course of their career to that point.  The music was generally more raw and faster.

Cataloguing My Metal Collection Pt. 98

ARTIST:  Metallica
ORIGIN:  San Francisco, CA (United States)
TITLE:  ReLoad
LABEL:  Vertigo Records
YEAR:  1997
GENRE:  Heavy Metal/Hard Rock
FAVORITE SONG:  "Fixxxer"
NOTES:  Originally, Load and ReLoad were supposed to be a double album.  That would have been a really tedious double album though so thankfully they did not do that.  I think I like ReLoad slightly better than Load, but I really do not like either one all that much.  There are some decent songs here, but nothing like their material prior to The Black Album.