Metallica used their 1991–93 Wherever We May Roam tour programme to mock hostile or inaccurate press reviews, reprinting them alongside conventional band photographs. The stunt reflected the band’s willingness to answer critics with humour and defiance as its popularity grew, a quality later associated with its high-profile breakthrough as the first metal band to headline Glastonbury.

One cited review, by El Paso Herald Host writer Paul Maldonado Jr, referred to The God That Failed before Metallica had performed it live and mentioned an apparently nonexistent song called Carry On. The band repeated the approach later in the decade by using negative reviews of its Whiskey In The Jar cover on the single’s artwork.