Metallica Vinyl, CD & tapes by Metallica at Norman Records

This reissued record from Metallica should need no introduction if you are in any way interested in thrash metal. The 1984 second album from these rifftastic pioneers, Ride The Lightning, is as ferocious as anything they ever recorded, and is now available again on vinyl, fully remastered. On Virgin.

To coincide with the 20th anniversary of Metallica’s collaboration with the San Francisco Symphony - the hugely successful S&M - they have gone and done it again. S&M2 was recorded at the end of 2019 and features songs from their entire career, including new interpretations of songs from their most recent studio album, Hardwired ...To Self Destruct. Available on CD, LP and DVD in a number of different ways.

It seems that with the 4 albums from their second album, Ride The Lightning to their self-titled ‘black’ album, Metallica could do no wrong. ….And Justice For All was the third album in that run and was originally released in 1988. It has now been severely polished and repackaged in a number of enticing ways. Firstly we have the shelf-threatening Deluxe LP Box set which contains the original LP across 2 180g slabs of vinyl, 3 live LPs, 11 CDs and 4 DVDs, book, patches and tour laminate. If that’s just too much for you, there’s a two LP version, a 3CD version, a single CD version and a cassette all available separately.

The $5.98 EP - Garage Days Revisited by Metallica disappeared in its original physical format over three decades ago. Although the tracks from the EP of covers (Diamond Head, Budgie, Killing Joke, Misfits & Holocaust)  have since been available on their massive Garage Inc. compilation album, the band wanted to throw it out there once more as it was initially intended. Limited edition orange vinyl, black vinyl, longbox CD, Standard CD and Cassette formats available, none of which are $5.98.

Master Of Puppets by Metallica was originally released in 1986. It has grown in reputation to be widely regarded as the zenith of thrash metal. Available on 180g LP and standard CD, but there’s also a shelf-threatening Deluxe LP box set with 3 LPs, 10 CDs a cassette and two DVDs. With this you’ll get a slew of unreleased stuff, demos, live stuff, an interview lyrics and badges. There will also be a 3 CD version with rough mixes, demos and live stuff in addition to the original album.

A brand new Metallica album appeared! Hardwired… To Self-Destruct is their first album in eight years. And because Metallica are a colossally big band, they have a broad plethora of formats for you to choose from, ranging from 2CD and 2LP editions to a massive, bonus-material-laden triple LP+CD box-set stuffed with badges and photo prints. Up to you.

This reissued record from Metallica should need no introduction if you are in any way interested in thrash metal. 1983’s Kill ‘Em All is the very first album ever recorded by these kings of the riffs, and it still stands proud as a strong statement of intent. Now it is available again on vinyl, fully remastered. From Virgin.