Metallica To Release Career-Spanning ‘Box Set’

METALLICA TO RELEASE CAREER-SPANNING ‘BOX SET’:

February 13, 2009

‘The Complete Metallica’ is due out this spring

Metallica have announced that they will release a career-spanning digital box set this spring.

The veteran rockers will release ‘The Complete Metallica’ as a digital download exclusively via US iTunes on March 31.

The set includes all nine of the band’s studio albums: 1983’s ‘Kill ‘Em All’, 1984’s ‘Ride the Lightning’, 1986’s ‘Master of Puppets’, 1988’s ‘…And Justice for All’, 1991’s ‘Metallica’, 1996’s ‘Load’, 1997’s ‘ReLoad’, 2003’s ‘St. Anger’, and 2008’s ‘Death Magnetic’. It also includes their double album of covers, a live album and a handful of tracks the band contributed to film soundtracks.

Meanwhile, the ‘Guitar Hero Metallica’ video game featuring 28 of their songs will be released on March 29. The band will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on April 4, as previously reported.

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