Historic Early Metallica Recording Goes Online

06/01/2010
. The Metal Den unearths what they say is the earliest known soundboard recording by Metallica from the Old Waldorf in San Francisco, California on October 18th, 1982.

The track is "Hit The Lights" (the group's first ever original tune) and the lineup is Mustaine, Ulrich, Hetfield and McGovney.

As the story goes, this was a show the band played for Brian Slagel's Metal Blade Records to help promote a local compilation album entitled "Metal Massacre I". - more on this story

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