METALLICA: Demo Versions Of All 10 'Death Magnetic' Songs Available For Streaming

Demo versions of all 10 songs that appear on METALLICA's new album, "Death Magnetic", are available for streaming below (courtesy of SlytheTM).

As previously reported, "Death Magnetic" is on track to sell around 500,000 copies in its first, shortened week on the streets, according to sources cited by Hits Daily Double, the companion web site of music industry tip sheet HITS.

Traditionally, record labels release new albums in the U.S. on Tuesdays. However, METALLICA opted to make "Death Magnetic" available to the band's fans around the world on the same day — Friday, September 12.

METALLICA's last CD, "St. Anger", also had an unusual release date after Elektra Records decided to move up its release to Thursday, June 5, 2003 from Tuesday, June 10, 2003 "to ensure that counterfeit copies of the band's first studio album in six years do not proliferate in the marketplace," the label said at the time.

"St. Anger" sold 363,000 copies in its first full week of release to land at No. 2 on The Billboard 200 chart. The album shifted 418,000 copies in the U.S. in its first, shortened week on the streets.

METALLICA's "Re-Load" album sold 435,000 units during its first week in 1997, while 1996's "Load" opened at 680,000. 1991's self-titled "black album" debuted with 598,000 and has since gone on to sell more than 15.2 million copies in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan.

"That Was Just Your Life" (demo):

"The End of the Line" (demo):

"Broken, Beat & Scarred" (demo):

"The Day that Never Comes" (demo):

"All Nightmare Long" (demo):

"Cyanide" (demo):

"Unforgiven III" (demo):

"The Judas Kiss" (demo):

"Suicide and Redemption" (demo):

"My Apocalypse" (demo):