Kill Em All : Album title

Album title

The band initially planned to title the album Metal Up Your Ass, and the cover would have featured a toilet bowl with a hand clutching a dagger emerging from it. However, Megaforce urged them to change this,^[8] and they agreed, switching to Kill 'Em All. This time the cover featured the shadow of a hand letting go of a bloodied hammer. Cliff Burton is credited with coming up with the name Kill 'Em All (referring to timid record distributors) as a response to the whole situation.^[9] Even though the album title Metal Up Your Ass was unused, the band did later release a Metal Up Your Ass t-shirt with the proposed artwork.