^{TODAY IN 1983 WAS PRETTY LEGENDARY IN THE WORLD OF ROCK…IT WAS THE DAY THAT METALLICA’S DEBUT STUDIO ALBUM ‘KILL ‘EM ALL’ WAS RELEASED, THE FIRST TIME ANYWAY! THE ALBUM DIDN’T ENTER THE BILLBOARD 200 UNTIL 1986, PEAKING AT NUMBER 155. THEN AFTER THE SUCCESS OF THEIR 3RD ALBUM, ‘MASTER OF PUPPETS’, ‘KILL EM ALL’ WAS REISSUED AND HIT NUMBER 120.} 

^{BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE! ON THIS DATE IN 2006 METALLICA’S BACK CATALOG IS FINALLY MADE AVAILABLE VIA APPLES iTUNES SERVICE…THE METAL LEGENDS HAD HELD OUT AFTER A LEGAL DISPUTE WITH NAPSTER BACK IN 2000…} 

^{OFF THAT NOW ICONIC DEBUT ALBUM IS THE FIRST SONG EVER WRITTEN BY FOUNDING MEMBER DAVE MUSTAINE, WHO, BY THE WAY WAS REPLACED BY KIRK HAMMETT THE SAME YEAR ‘KILL EM ALL’ WAS RELEASED, THAT SINGLE ‘JUMP IN THE FIRE’, IT’S ROXY’S ROCK REWIND ON 105.7 THE X!}