The band wanted the booklet to hold a detailed account of the contents of the project, and designer Andy Airfix was allowed to search through Ulrich's catalogue of Metallica memorabilia in San Francisco to create a 32-page booklet. had an Anton Corbijn photograph of Metallica dressed as mechanics. Metallica's own music was presented by the opening band, Battery, a Metallica tribute band. Embracing the cover song concept, the band's setlist consisted entirely of cover songs from throughout their career. Metallica played five shows in November 1998 to support the album's release. Only one of the eleven songs in the "New Recordings '98" disk was not done in the three-week sessions, a version of Lynyrd Skynyrd's " Tuesday's Gone" the band recorded for a radio broadcast along with friends such as Les Claypool, John Popper and Gary Rossington. Garage Days Re-Revisited, the band would "put them all in a nice little packaging for easy listening" along with the newly recorded cover versions, chosen through a group decision. Given that the band had recorded many covers that were spread across various releases, such as B-sides of their singles and the 1987 EP The $5.98 E.P. As Lars Ulrich explained, the band wanted to do something different after "three pretty serious albums in a row, starting with the Black album and then Load and ReLoad", and the process would be easier by working with covers, especially as the band had a tradition of taking other people's songs and "turn them into something very Metallica, different from what the original artist did". The day after Metallica finished the North American leg of the Poor Re-Touring Me Tour in San Diego's Coors Amphitheatre, they hit the studio to start recording a new album of cover versions.
The album features songs by artists that have influenced Metallica, including many bands from new wave of British heavy metal, hardcore punk bands and popular songs. The album's graphical cover draws heavily from the 1987 EP. The title is a combination of Garage Days Revisited and Metallica's song "Damage, Inc.", from Master of Puppets.
Garage Days Re-Revisited, which had gone out of print since its original release in 1987. It includes cover songs, B-side covers, and The $5.98 E.P. It was released on November 24, 1998, through Elektra Records.
is a compilation album of cover songs by American heavy metal band, Metallica.
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