The seven-track demo (Metallica’s second overall) dropped during the summer of 1982, when the band members themselves (which then included Dave Mustaine on guitar in the pre-Kirk Hammett days) sent the copies out to friends and the underground metal cognoscenti.
Yeah, I’ll be picking this one up.
That’s when they lived in my hometown, about two blocks from my house. I was a freshman in high school when they recorded that. Good times.