While the second disc was a smorgasbord of B-sides from various Metallica releases across their career, the first was a brand new collection of fresh takes on timeless classics. (opens in new tab) – a monstrous double-disc collection of covers of seminal rock and metal songs that had inspired the Four Horsemen over the years. Released on November 23 of that year, that “something” turned out to be Garage, Inc. “We made three pretty serious albums in a row. “Metallica still needs to have fun,” Lars Ulrich (opens in new tab) told Billboard magazine that November. ![]() In the autumn of 1998, after a three-album run of Metallica, Load (opens in new tab) and Reload had seen them evolve from thrash metal’s greatest band to an arena rock behemoth, Metallica set about doing what they do best: blindsiding everyone with something completely unexpected.
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