Still, this would be worth the price of admission even if only to have the (previously released) likes of Breadfan, Helpless, Stone Cold Crazy, Am I Evil? and the riotously filthy So What all in one place. is part of the appeal: this is the sound of four musicians kicking out the jams purely for fun, and as such, for all that it’s indulgent, it’s a hard album to dislike – though as its position here shows, it's also a record which failed to make much of a lasting impact on fans. That there’s no real ‘point’ to Garage, Inc. 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. Released on November 23 of that year, that “something” turned out to be Garage, Inc. – a monstrous double-disc collection of covers of seminal rock and metal songs that had inspired the Four Horsemen over the years. “We made three pretty serious albums in a row. “Metallica still needs to have fun,” Lars Ulrich told Billboard magazine that November. In the autumn of 1998, after a three-album run of Metallica, Load 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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