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Kill 'Em All

1983 debut studio album by Metallica
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Summary

Kill 'Em All is an album[1]. It ranks in the top 0.7% of album entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (11,268 views/month, #422 of 60,676).[2]

Key Facts

  • Genre: thrash metal[3]
  • Producer: Jon Zazula[4]
  • Performer: Metallica[5]
  • Record label: Megaforce Records[6]
  • Place of publication: United States[7]
  • Part of: Metallica's albums in chronological order[8], Metallica studio albums discography[9]
  • Language of work or name: English[10]
  • Distribution format: compact disc[11], music streaming[12], music download[13]
  • Review score: 5[14]
  • Recorded at studio or venue: Music America Studios[15]
  • Publication date: July 25, 1983[16]
  • Tracklist: Jump in the Fire[17], Whiplash[18], Phantom Lord[19], Seek & Destroy[20]
  • Official website: https://www.metallica.com/releases/albums/4209/kill-em-all[21]
  • Partially coincident with: Metal Up Your Ass[22]
  • Title: Kill 'Em All[23]
  • Has characteristic: debut album[24]
  • Different from: Kill 'Em All[25]
  • Duration: 3075 seconds[26]
  • Number of parts of this work: 10 audio track[27]
  • Form of creative work: studio album[28]

Product Details

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MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Release type: Album[29]

  • First release date: 1983-07-25[30]

  • Genre(s): hard rock, heavy metal, metal, rock, speed metal, thrash metal[31]

  • Community tags: aggressive, energetic, hard rock, heavy, heavy metal, metal, raw, rebellious, rock, speed metal, thrash metal[32]

  • MusicBrainz ID: f44f4f73-a714-31a1-a4b8-bfcaaf311f50[33]

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Cultural Impact

Things named for Kill 'Em All include Cliff 'Em All[34], a film[35], directed by Doug Freel[36].

Why It Matters

Kill 'Em All has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[37] It is known by 36 alternative names across languages and contexts.[38]

Entities named for it include Cliff 'Em All[34], a film[35], directed by Doug Freel[36].

Related Entities

compact disc Megaforce Records Metallica United States

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  3. [5] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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  5. [7] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Apple Music. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . AllMusic. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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  22. [24] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [29] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [30] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [31] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [32] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [33] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [35] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [36] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [37] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [38] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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    Spirit of metal album id → 618
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