Metallifan’s Ride the Lightning and Test Pressing Collection

The first picture is a continuation of the series from Jan of last year showing the ride albums and singles.
The second shows the following test pressings (top left, going right, then row by row):

• Ride the Lightning: UK    1986    Music For Nations    (MFN 27 P). White vinyl test press of picture disc
• For Whom the Bell Tolls: US 1984 Speciality / Elektra (ED 5026). One-sided pressing with Edit Version
• Creeping Death: France 1984 Bernett / MPO (19036). Dated 22/11/84
• Ride the Lightning: UK    1986    Music For Nations    (MFN 27 P). Silver vinyl test press of picture disc
• Creeping Death: UK 1984 Music For Nations  / MPO (12 KUT 112). With "Proof" cover which is basically a test press of the cover. The cover has a spelling mistake; "BlitzkrEIg", this was corrected for the commercial release.
• Ride the Lightning: US 1984 The Music Connection / Megaforce (MRI 769) with cover note from Important (distributors). Dated 25/7
• Ride the Lightning: US 1984 Speciality / Elektra (STE-60396-A-1). Dated 10/10/84
• Ride the Lightning: UK 1984 Music For Nations (MFN 27). Debatable whether this was the first pressing, or the megaforce version. Lars once said that when he heard the test pressing of Ride it sounded "slow". There is a version with the track list written on it in his hand writing.

Killer Kill em All Metallica Vinyl Collection

Here's some more photos from Metallifan's Metallica Vinyl collection.

The first photo is of his collection from the start of last year showing all of his Kill Em All Vinyl.

The second has his 4 Kill Em All test pressings:

• Kill Em All -  HRM test (megaforce)
• Kill Em All - MFN white pic disc test
• Jump Mayking / MFN test
• Jump MFN clear vinyl

Hope to have some more blog entries with updates about stuff relating to Metallica and vinyl soon. I am very pleased that the band will be coming to New Zealand where I live in October later this year, as the last leg of their World Magnetic Tour. Will be assume to see them again. Last saw them at Wembly in 2007 with 80,000 + others.

Metallifan’s Master of Puppets Collection

I have been thinking about starting a blog for Metallicavinyl.com for a while, and a recent email conversation I had with a Metallica vinyl collector "Metallifan" inspired me to get going. I convinced him to send me a couple of photos of his collection for you to drool over, so read on for the details.

The first one comes from Jan last year and shows all of the albums and 12"s from Kill to MOP (the 7" didn't make it in the picture).

The second picture shows my current collection of MOP test pressings:

• UK 1986 Music For Nations MFN 60 A1 White label test press of Mix One, with photographic sample sleeve
• UK 1986 Music For Nations MFN 60 A2 White label test press of Mix Two, with photographic sample sleeve and MFN press release dated 13th feb 1986
• UK 1986 Music For Nations MFN 60 A2 White label test press, with white sleeve and hand-written title
• UK 1986 Music For Nations MFN 60 P White vinyl test press of picture disc

Some live eBay auctions for Master of Puppets Vinyl: