The band has contacted the Recording Industry Association of America and the British Phonograph Institute. The English company was served with the order this week.Īccording to King, the bootleg copies of the demo, which Metallica owns the rights to, contain seven songs, including “Seek and Destroy” and “Motorbreath.” King served the U.S.-based company with a cease and desist order in early February, and so far they have complied. Two companies - one in the United States, the other in Norfolk, England - each had been packaging and selling the bootleg, King said. It was such a bad job of trying to disguise the origins of the music.” Someone was using Metallica’s name to sell a butchered product. “At first he was amused, but then he became angry.
“ Lars was the first to hear and identify the tape,” King said. Howard King, the band’s manager, told JAM TV on Wednesday that someone took the demo, renamed it Bay Area Thrashers, artificially added crowd noise to make it look like a previously undiscovered live album and tried to sell it. On the tape, previously circulated under the title No Life ‘Til Leather, Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine and fledgling bassist Ron McGovney fill the respective guitar and bass slots that would eventually be taken over by Kirk Hammet and Cliff Burton on the band’s 1983 Elektra debut, Kill ‘Em All. The Grammy-winning metal band, fronted by James Hetfield, is taking immediate action to thwart the distribution of Bay Area Thrashers, an illegal bootleg tape that features an early configuration of the band. Metallica is gearing up to wage war … against bootleggers.
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