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. 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, specially 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". Given 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.: 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. 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.
The cover for Garage Inc. had a Ross Halfin photograph of Metallica dressed as mechanics. 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. Airfix also did the back cover, where the front of Garage Days Re-Revisited was modified with headshots of Metallica in 1998 and the track list written on tracing paper.
A collection of cover songs. The songs on disc 1 are newly recorded, while disc 2 is gathered from previous recordings. The album line-up section is the musicians from the newly recorded songs on disc 1.
"Sabbra Cadabra" also covers part of the Black Sabbath song, "A National Acrobat".
"Mercyful Fate" is a medley of the songs "Satan's Fall", "Curse of the Pharaohs", "A Corpse Without Soul", "Into the Coven", and "Evil".
On disc 1, "The More I See" ends at 03:23, and after a period of silence there is a short segment of the Robin Trower song "Bridge of Sighs".
Recording information:
Disc 1:
Somewhat produced by Bob Rock with Hetfield & Ulrich.
Engineered by Randy Staub.
Additional Engineering by Brian Dobbs.
Assisted by Kent Matcke, Leff Lefferts, and Chris Manning.
Digital Edits by Paul DeCarli and Mike Gillies.
Recorded and mixed in September and October, 1998 at The Plant Studios in Sausalito, California (except track 10).
Mixed by Randy Staub and Mike Fraser.
Mastered by George Marino at Sterling Sound.
Track 10 recorded on December 18th, 1997 during the "Don't Call Us, We'll Call You" radio broadcast on KSJO.
Disc 2:
Tracks 1-5:
Not very produced by Metallica.
Engineered by Csaba "The Hut" Petocz.
Recorded in 1987 in Los Angeles, California.
Tracks 6-7:
Produced by Metallica and Mark Whitake.
Engineered by Jeffrey "Nick" Norman.
Recorded in 1984 in Sausalito, California.
Tracks 8-9:
Not produced.
Engineered by Mike Clink and Toby "Rage" Wright.
Rough mix by Flemming Rasmussen.
Recorded in 1988 in Los Angeles, California.
Track 10:
Kind of produced by Metallica.
Engineered by Toby "Rage" Wright.
Recorded in 1990 in Berkeley, California.
Tracks 11-12:
Roughly produced by Bob Rock with Hetfield and Ulrich.
Engineered by Randy Staub.
Recorded in 1991 in Los Angeles, California.
Tracks 13-16:
Not Produced.
Recorded live direct to two-track at The Plant Studios
in Sausalito, California, in December, 1995.
Mixed by Randy Staub.
Remastered by George Marino at Sterling Sound.
Album Design by Andie Airfix at Satori
Front cover photography and Page 32 of booklet by Anton Corbijn
Back cover photography of original sleeve by Ross Halfin
Additional photography by Ross Halfin and Mark Leialoha
Management by Q Prime, Inc
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