# METALLICA’s ‘Kill ‘Em All’ Assistant Engineer ANDREW WROBLEWSKI Shares Stories And Rare Photos In ‘Bass Solo – Take One’ Memoir

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/metallicas-kill-em-all-assistant-engineer-andrew-wroblewski-shares-stories-and-rare-photos-in-bass-solo-take-one-memoir/
- Published: 2026-10-27T20:26:08+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-27T21:27:34+00:00
- Original publisher: Blabbermouth
- Original article: https://blabbermouth.net/news/metallicas-kill-em-all-assistant-engineer-andrew-wroblewski-shares-stories-and-rare-photos-in-bass-solo-take-one-memoir
- Topics: Business, Entertainment, Markets, Music

## Key points

- Andrew Wroblewski recounts Metallica’s 1983 debut sessions in a new memoir.
- The book includes rare studio photographs and a firsthand account of the recording.
- *Kill ’Em All* has sold more than four million copies in the US.

## Summary

Andrew Wroblewski, an assistant engineer on Metallica’s 1983 debut album *Kill ’Em All*, is sharing his memories in a new memoir, *Bass Solo – Take One: The Kill ’Em All Tell ’Em All*. The book offers a firsthand account of the band’s recording sessions and early relationships, adding a studio worker’s perspective to the history of an influential thrash metal album.

Wroblewski describes the atmosphere and recording experiments at MusicAmerica Studios in Rochester, as well as the band members’ personalities and the making of Cliff Burton’s bass solo “(Anesthesia) – Pulling Teeth”. The memoir includes his contribution to “Seek & Destroy” and rare session photographs, some later donated to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Recorded in two weeks on a small budget, *Kill ’Em All* was initially pressed in 1,500 copies and has since sold more than four million in the US; its proposed original title was “Metal Up Your Ass”.

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