One of the soundboard quality bootlegs that Metallica put up on their LiveMetallica site a few years ago, so the sound quality is exceptional. It is also from an era of Metallica that I find quite tragic, and thus you will see a rather low rating.
The rating simply comes from the material that is found here. The songs are not my favourites. The bootleg itself is interesting, for the fact that you get to hear so many of their songs live that - to be fair - are very average. Of course, when I first got the boot I thought that perhaps, in a live environment, they would improve. That was not the case, unfortunately.
Songs that find themselves here include "Ain't My Bitch", "Bleeding Me', "King Nothing", "Devil's Dance", "Until It Sleeps" and the deplorable "Kill-Ride Medley", which is an abomination to the Metallica legacy. Of all of these, "Until It Sleeps" at least holds its form. The others, along with my long time nemesis "Nothing Else Matters" are really nothing more than dust fodder.
The other tragedy is that the older material feels undervalued, both by the band's performance and Hetfield's clear vocals, with no emotion in them whatsoever. I think by this stage they really had lost what had made them great.
Rating: Sound quality is great. The mark is probably as high as it is just for that. 3/5.
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