Blitzkrieg

Album: Kill 'em All (bonus track) (1984)
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Songfacts®:

  • Occasionally, a band will name a song after themselves: Black Sabbath, Bad Company and Wilco have all done it. Very rare, however, is for another band to cover that song, but that's what happened here when Metallica recorded this track originally done by the British metal band Blitzkrieg in 1981.
  • This is a song of war, destruction and Armageddon, from the point of view of the innocent civilians. It questions how mankind can survive. >>
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    Aaron - Seattle, WA

Comments: 4

  • Dulltorpor from Westchester County, NyThis song has relevance to the people of the Gaza Strip.
  • DamienMolly I heard. It's Lars saying "I f*cked up in one place." I just wanna know what he screwed up on because i didn't hear anything wrong.
  • Willie from Scottsdale, AzThis song has often been mistakenly attributed to Diamond Head, due to a mislabeled recording which made its way over the interweb in the 1990s.
  • Molly from Allegan, Mithis is really funny if you turn the volume up at the very end and just listen to what the microphone picks up trust me you will laugh
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