Fortunately for Metallica, they knew what they wanted, and had practiced for weeks on end at The Music Building in Queens, where they lived while they were in New York. Chris Bubacz, who had engineered the hard rock band The Rods, was also on board.
Zazula booked Metallica to record the album at Music America Recording Studio, and used staff producer Paul Curcio, who had previously worked with the Doobie Brothers in 1971. “And I could barely even afford the pants.” “I basically did the whole thing flying by the seat of my pants,” he told me during an unused interview for Louder Than Hell: The Definitive Oral History of Metal. Since Jonny Z, an indie record store owner, started Megaforce on a whim, simply to put out Metallica’s album, he improvised every step of the way, and had little budget with which to record. “So I said, ‘Sure.’ When I changed them it was for the better and everyone liked it.” “As a 22-year-old kid put in a position like that, you don’t want to rock the boat too much, especially being the new kid in town,“ Hammett said in Birth School Metallica Death by Paul Brannigan and Ian Winwood. In the end, they agreed that the solos would start with Mustaine’s phrasings, but finish with Hammett’s compositions. Originally, Jonny Z, the band’s manager and label president, wanted Hammett to replicate Mustaine’s leads for the songs from No Life Til Leather, but Hammett, who was eager to make his own mark, protested. Then, after booting Mustaine from the band and replacing him with Kirk Hammett, they and added “Whiplash, “No Remorse” and Burton’s distorted bass solo “Anesthesia (Pulling Teeth).” The band also changed “Mechanix” to “The Four Horsemen,” extracting Mustaine’s lyrics about a horny mechanic and replacing them with lines about the Biblical apocalypse.
Seven of the songs from Kill ‘Em All came from Metallica 1982 demo No Life Til Leather, which they recorded with guitarist Dave Mustaine, and which got them signed to Megaforce.
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